![]() ![]() High Sierra’s biggest new feature, the APFS file system, has actually fared surprisingly well, in spite of Apple’s seemingly determined efforts to stunt it. ![]() The company which obsesses over every last design detail in its product packaging didn’t seem to care whether what was inside that packaging was fit for purpose. They laid bare serious flaws in Apple’s engineering processes: critical code to handle encryption passwords and their hints had obviously never undergone any review before being shipped in release products pre-beta testing was cursory, if it took place at all. For macOS 10.13, Apple had to cheat by disguising its more urgent bug-fixes in ‘Supplemental Updates’ which, together with hefty ‘Security Updates’, came thick and fast. Not that iOS 11 has been without its problems, and has taken no less than fourteen incremental updates (so far) to get it right. The serious lessons come from comparing the success of iOS 11 with the relentless succession of gaffes and shortcomings of its sibling macOS 10.13. After all, other operating system vendors are happy to omit some version numbers when they feel like it: has anyone here used Windows 9? Maybe Apple should have been triskaidekaphobic, and followed the superstition seen in western street numbering of skipping 13 altogether, and going straight on to macOS 10.14. High Sierra’s not quite done yet: in the next couple of weeks, if MacRumors is anything to go by, macOS 10.13.6 will hit the App Store, and then we can all wonder whether it was worth it, when we’re on vacation. ![]()
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