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by falcolas 2595 days ago
No-one sets out to create bugs, but these days it feels like nobody sets out to proactively identify and fix bugs either.

Expecting the customers of obscenely profitable companies to QA that company's products (for free) is silly.
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Supermighty 2595 days ago
You paint a picture of Apple ignoring all QA responsibility and pushing it on the users, only to later ignore their requests. Surely this is not the case. It's just another bug that slipped through. It doesn't have to be the result of a greedy corporation cutting corners.
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falcolas 2595 days ago
>another bug

>slipped through

At what point do we hold companies responsible for their products? At what point should we, as software developers, hold ourselves responsible for our products?

I think it's entirely reasonable to answer "when the company is a multinational, highly profitable company" and "when they are among the brightest software developers in our generation"; "another bug" "slipping through" should not be considered to be acceptable.

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michaelmrose 2595 days ago
Slipped through for a year?
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