Re: OT: How to file a radar
Re: OT: How to file a radar
- Subject: Re: OT: How to file a radar
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:00:56 -0400
On Jul 19, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Steve Checkoway wrote:
Bill Bumgarner wrote:
The problem was that it revealed product timelines and, in a
handful of cases, new products and/or features prior to their
announcement.
As you well know, Apple is an extremely secretive company. As
well, the rumors community has an amazing ability to pry apart the
most innocuous of statements into "news about future products"
that eventually wind their way into the Wall Street analysts
hands. Amazing process, really.
But what about very simple bugs like 4247630 that I filed almost a
year ago: NZERO not XSI compliant. Apple could fix the value in
their header file (or not, if they don't want to be XSI compliant)
and make a note about it. I seriously doubt this is going to cause
any waves on Wall Street. "Oh noes! They've changed a define in one
header. Sell!"
If there's any doubt at all, they could do what they do now and say
nothing. Feature requests for instance. For simple bugs like the
fact that 20 was mistyped as 0 (and in the wrong header for that
matter), well...
Last time I checked, Apple gets an average of a thousand Radar
entries per day, 365 days a year. They need a system that can be
trusted to maintain confidentially for any reports that require it,
and that system is "complete secrecy for all reports" system. It's
just a practical necessity for them. Given the number of people they
have working on this stuff and the range of issues they'd have to
evaluate, any system that allowed for early feedback for any reports
would eventually result in a leak of information that shouldn't have
been released. Sooner or later someone would make a mistake,
misunderstand something, click the wrong button in an application,
whatever, and bingo, something would get out and Steve would not be
happy. ;-)
Larry
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