New Apple watch keeps rebooting due to daylight savings time bug.
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/8/17950300/apple-watch-series-4-reboot-crash-dst-bug
As the watch gets stuck in a reboot loop, affected users can either wait it out until tomorrow when the bug should correct itself, or attempt to remove the complication from the Apple Watch app on the iPhone. The activity complication maps hour-by-hour data on calories burned, exercise time, and how many hours you’ve stood for in a 24-hour period. The missing hour appears to be confusing the Apple Watch Series 4.
How do you design a watch, but somehow don't take DST into account when doing Q/A.
Why is it always a time related issue with iOS crashes?
Why does apple always have so many crash issues with its OS.
Or is it just that they end up in the news and more widespread due to marketshare?
I mean, iOS has less marketshare than Android. It's probably because iOS is the one you trade off device control for stability, so stability issues are a bigger problem.
I think its the latter. Plus, instability and bugs on iOS is "newsworthy". Android devices have bugs all the time, but a lot of times, they are device specific. So the only newsworthy ones are flagships.
I think you answered your own question there
I mean IOS is only on apple products. It shouldn't be that hard for a mega-conglomerate like Apple to afford basic Q/A with a lineup of what? 5-10 products?
Apple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
The more they try to pack these things with technology, it seems like the less it takes for basic shit to make it all stop working.
I thought the industry trend is to move away from Q/A testing. Just have your customers do it.
See: Microsoft, every AAA game publisher, etc.
if time is such a high tech problem, why does my analog watch keep it perfectly? checkmate science
ive always thought the apple watch was hideous and was holding out hope they'd make some kind of improvement to the design
alas
How in the flying fuck does something as simple as time affect something as low-level as the kernel? I thought we moved past this in 1999.
I'm not a software or hardware engineer/programmer but I'm fairly certain people are lazy.
Besides, this is Apple we're talking about. Why make a good product when you can make it look shiny and people will gobble it up?
This truly is the end of Apple
i didnt even know there was a 4 series
I'm reminded of the secret agent watch trope that's capable of doing everything- phone, calculator, GPS tracker, all sorts of gadgets and gizmos- except actually tell the time.
Certainly not the case in games. Games are just getting bigger and require more attention.
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