I think a lot of these can be better characterised as "poor design or implementation decisions". For example, I would say "The settings of an app are separate from the app" or "Intrusive warning dialog when you are offline" are just bad design, rather than bugs.
There's a list of comments all saying the same thing, and I don't accept that these are not bugs.
From the user/UX POV, they absolutely are. They may not trash your file system or set your Mac on fire. But the UX is the public face of the product. If it has issues and causes unnecessary friction, that reflects badly elsewhere.
Almost all of these really stretch the definition of a "bug". Functionality that is intentional, but displeasing to you, is not a bug. Missing features are not a bug.
These are not bugs, these are the things people come up with when they are incapable of seeing the full and complex picture and the tradeoffs made and required.
You could probably write a book worth of complexity about "why not escape illegal characters under the hood" alone.
And you have to admit that it's not very satisfactory for an OS to have issues with filenames that include not-so-unusual characters like colons.
This is 2020, not 1975.
OK, something something backward compatibility. But even so.
And there are more bugs - for example the image view in Finder ignores the window frame. Instead of making all the previews fit in the window frame ready for vertical scrolling, it dumps them off to the right where no one can see them without horizontal scrolling.
The drag-and-drop autoscrolling in Finder is annoyingly random if you want to drop something into a folder that isn't currently visible.
Dragging the left divider of a file preview in Finder doesn't resize the preview - it just moves it to the left or right. There are very few use cases where this is the most useful behaviour.
There's no obvious "expand width to make filenames fit" option for the dividers in Finder. (You can double click on the divider. But if there's a setting to make the width auto-size by default, it's well hidden.)
Exporting photos from Photo won't let you save a photo with a custom name. You can pick a folder, which is nice, but no "Grandkids Christmas 2019.jpg"
Time Machine often doesn't work.
And so on. These are all avoidable irritations. They wouldn't take long to fix, and they all add up to create the impression that Apple doesn't really care about core software quality or UX.
>And you have to admit that it's not very satisfactory for an OS to have issues with filenames that include not-so-unusual characters like colons.
It's not satisfactory to go plug in my phone charger next to my bed and see that all of the four wall outlets are taken. However, it is not a bug in the apartment that there's only four outlets. It's a conscious design decision.
I have no idea why or how, but adding an item to a list introduces a painfully noticeable delay/lag.
Like, what is even happening? As a software dev maybe understanding might alleviate some of my grief. It's just a list.. adding a new item to the list. Drawing it on the screen! How can you screw up the simple ToDo app?
Happens consistently on my iPhone 6S Plus, and my wife's iPhone 8 Plus. Existing lists and brand new ones too.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 51.9 ms ] threadFrom the user/UX POV, they absolutely are. They may not trash your file system or set your Mac on fire. But the UX is the public face of the product. If it has issues and causes unnecessary friction, that reflects badly elsewhere.
You could probably write a book worth of complexity about "why not escape illegal characters under the hood" alone.
And you have to admit that it's not very satisfactory for an OS to have issues with filenames that include not-so-unusual characters like colons.
This is 2020, not 1975.
OK, something something backward compatibility. But even so.
And there are more bugs - for example the image view in Finder ignores the window frame. Instead of making all the previews fit in the window frame ready for vertical scrolling, it dumps them off to the right where no one can see them without horizontal scrolling.
The drag-and-drop autoscrolling in Finder is annoyingly random if you want to drop something into a folder that isn't currently visible.
Dragging the left divider of a file preview in Finder doesn't resize the preview - it just moves it to the left or right. There are very few use cases where this is the most useful behaviour.
There's no obvious "expand width to make filenames fit" option for the dividers in Finder. (You can double click on the divider. But if there's a setting to make the width auto-size by default, it's well hidden.)
Exporting photos from Photo won't let you save a photo with a custom name. You can pick a folder, which is nice, but no "Grandkids Christmas 2019.jpg"
Time Machine often doesn't work.
And so on. These are all avoidable irritations. They wouldn't take long to fix, and they all add up to create the impression that Apple doesn't really care about core software quality or UX.
It's not satisfactory to go plug in my phone charger next to my bed and see that all of the four wall outlets are taken. However, it is not a bug in the apartment that there's only four outlets. It's a conscious design decision.
I have no idea why or how, but adding an item to a list introduces a painfully noticeable delay/lag.
Like, what is even happening? As a software dev maybe understanding might alleviate some of my grief. It's just a list.. adding a new item to the list. Drawing it on the screen! How can you screw up the simple ToDo app?
Happens consistently on my iPhone 6S Plus, and my wife's iPhone 8 Plus. Existing lists and brand new ones too.
> You can’t access deleted files or older versions of files
> Macs have no alarm clock and timer
Was he drinking when he was making these?
Heck, I have a small list of real bugs I wish they’d deal with too.