[acdha]

I doubt that since it’s their own code but I’d easily believe that it hits an API endpoint which just started malfunctioning. The description is vague but it appears to retrieve a bunch of different kinds of information from some Apple service. Clearly a massive test coverage miss if my speculation is right.

[superjan]

I think he is joking.

[bombcar]

It's partially a joke, but as anyone who has worked with a complex system, things like this can happen. A privacy control is changed somewhere, but not activated until later, and suddenly one day something stops working.

[acdha]

I wasn’t sure about that and it’s certainly not without precedent that different parts of the same company might do something like that.