I seriously can't imagine how much pressure engineers at Apple were to ship this patch. Considering they tend to ship infrequently, I doubt they have the sort of QA turn-around that'd support emergency releases.<p>Remember that:<p><pre><code> - They learned about this yesterday
- They had as much heads up as the general public did
- They are a large company.
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I don't disagree that the apparent QA quality from Apple software isn't what it used to be, but we all have to take these sorts of things with a grain of salt. I've certainly been in situations like this before.
From a quality standpoint Apple is a shadow of its former self. For me a large number of the more recent features in macOS and iOS don’t work reliably. Things like handoff, text message forwarding, enabling tethering from the Mac, etc. are 50/50. These kind of things used to be Apples bread and butter. Taking ideas like these and making them “just work”. And now the security regression are creeping in. I would love to see them get back to very simple product lines and a more minimalist approach to software features.
The article says “<i>if</i> file sharing doesn’t work”, but is it ok to just run this command line fix anyway?<p>I’m not sure if file sharing is broken for me. I don’t use it <i>right now</i>. But I’m afraid I might run into this bug in the future when I eventually use file sharing, and then I will have forgotten about this fix, and end up spending hours scratching my head and head-desking.
I think this shows the poor state of Apple’s QA. Theorically there should be a list of predefined tests with a binary output, to pass the test or not. Before deploying anything, tests must be run and passed.
It seems the procedure is very human-dependant.
Seriously!<p>I can’t even install 10.13.1 on my Mac Pro 2013 - computer acts like its bricked until rebooted a number of times (and when it finally boots we’re back at 10.13).<p>This also means I can’t install the latest security update that fixes the root problem (and yes, i’ve changed the root password to mitigate).<p>OSX is becoming more like Windows every day.