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Comment by DEADMINCE

2 years ago

> It’s uncharacteristically un-Apple in terms of UX polish.

Apple's polish has always been more about the surface then the internals.

I remember playing around with setting up a Hackintosh, and found all those errors in the system logs --- then realised that an actual working Mac generates much the same (ignorable) errors.

  • To be fair to Apple here, so does every other operating system. Linux system logs are filled with errors too. In general, keeping the logs of even a moderately complex application "clean" - so that the only errors logged are real errors, in some poorly defined meaning of "real" - is very hard.

    For operating systems it must be straight up impossible.

    • > Linux system logs are filled with errors too.

      Mostly only due to misbehaving hardware. Something that should really not happen on a Mac. And "filled" is way hyperbolic, there usually isn't a lot of it.

    • It's difficult to accept as competency when they control both the software and hardware.