$500k+ TC makes many burdens worth shouldering

> Steve would roll in his grave.

Steve understood better than anyone that having a finite amount of time to build means you can't please everyone. The vast majority of Apple's customers just do not care about the Keyboard settings UI or the clarity of unusual error messages.

Users do care they just don't have the words to explain what it is thats frustrating them. Just a silent "I find myself using this less" sort of thing.

Not for everything, but the excuse of "normies don't give a shit" is a bullshit one.

I wonder how many care that messages lights up like a Christmas tree on speed on iPadOS, battery life dropped 90%, calculator requires 32 GB of ram, offline maps stranded them in the woods, iOS can no longer keep two apps loaded at once, ocr screenshots broke, the magnifier “flashlight” button no longer fits on the screen, or the ai text suggestions in notes are simultaneously garbage and undeletable.

Those are just some of the bugs I hit. I’d guess most normal users hit 4-5 problems this upgrade cycle.

For my side gig I need to quickly take multiple pictures (with my iphone) of subjects that aren’t still or cooperative. This used to work fine. Now the camera just quits with no crash or notice so I think I’m taking pictures but I’m not. Closing the camera app doesn’t disable or stop the camera, I have to wait or reboot. But hey, I can take really cool photos I can view in the Apple Vision I don’t own.

Now we have strong sandboxing by default and many other platform security advances to mitigate that risk. You can download any software off the Internet on macOS, so why not on iOS?

Predictable own goal. If a lot of UK users end up routing their traffic through a foreign VPN then GCHQ's backbone taps become far less useful.

I like the Tokyo Night themes, maybe take one of those for a spin

It’s great. It’s become my preferred workflow for vibe coding because it writes great commit messages, gives you a record of authorship, and rollbacks use far fewer tokens. You don’t have to (and probably shouldn’t) let it push to the remote branch.

I'm glad that workflow works for you, I suppose. I let it edit files but not commit because I should have a full understanding and accounting of what changed, why, how, and what to commit.

> In 3 of 4 calls, the service desk reset passwords and re-enrolled MFA with zero resistance. The caller simply gave a name – no validation, no callback, no check. On the 4th call, the attacker requested access to a privileged group. The TCS agent asked for an employee ID. The ID given didn’t even match our company’s format; and yet, the access was granted anyway.

Yikes

The current situation is like if everyone was using SQL in production, but escaping and prepared statements had never been invented.

And now we want to apply agents on top of it. What could go wrong.

That would be wasteful - Signal is open source, works well, and has been audited more thoroughly than any proprietary alternative would ever be.

Government officials are required to record their communications. Signal is also not approved for secure communications. And while Signal the protocol and company might be secure, the phones it runs are not.

Those who disclose that they’re doing it, sure.