I should probably clarify: the DVD bug was related to playing DVDs on a Mac with Intel graphics and 4 GB of RAM. Certainly it's an odd edge case but it spoke volumes about the quality control with the drivers. Maxing out the RAM on one of those can't have been such a rare thing. Certainly I can wrap my head around why calendaring and enterprise features didn't get much love, but video drivers on the mass market product? Jesus.
With the calendaring stuff: I wrote a CardDAV server that's probably still lurking around on Github somewhere. The workarounds I had to implement for MacOS and iOS clients were beyond pale. For instance stuff would just get cached indefinitely and trailing slashes caused OSX to have a conniption fit. If you told me that the client implementations just hardcoded a bunch of stuff so it worked for Steve Jobs (and that nobody else used it) I'd believe you.
Eventually I did a brief stint at a consultant that was brought on to do some infra stuff for Apple, and that didn't do much to improve my impression. We got a bunch of servers from the basement with expired iLO licenses, and boy were we lucky to get that much.
The attitude was basically, if it doesn't affect us personally working inside Apple,
we don't care. If our personal workflow and servers doesn't use those features (which
I guess is the case for GID), it doesn't matter.
Honestly I'm not sure how to respond to this. If memory serves there was no way to uncouple group mapping, so this was part and parcel of Apple's push into the enterprise space (and in this case AD was behaving as an OpenDirectory server would've). Which is to say, their failure in that space was entirely a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more frustrating part was that an obvious security flaw was treated with such disdain, which encouraged me to stop caring about filing bug report with Apple (and it's lead me to keep the bluetooth modem off almost exclusively on my iPhone).
That gig was actually mostly staffed with Apple alumni so there were 1st gen iPhones all around. Even the less esoteric stuff was simply not good. Obviously voice quality was shit (at least in San Francisco) compared to the CDMA feature phones of the day. One of the coworkers there worked on the mobile Mail.app before bailing for startup life. Autocomplete was a mess. Honestly, I rather enjoyed rubbing some salt into that wound.
What amazes me is that fifteen years on and Microsoft is still somehow worse (what with Windows being adware and all).
With the calendaring stuff: I wrote a CardDAV server that's probably still lurking around on Github somewhere. The workarounds I had to implement for MacOS and iOS clients were beyond pale. For instance stuff would just get cached indefinitely and trailing slashes caused OSX to have a conniption fit. If you told me that the client implementations just hardcoded a bunch of stuff so it worked for Steve Jobs (and that nobody else used it) I'd believe you.
Eventually I did a brief stint at a consultant that was brought on to do some infra stuff for Apple, and that didn't do much to improve my impression. We got a bunch of servers from the basement with expired iLO licenses, and boy were we lucky to get that much.
Honestly I'm not sure how to respond to this. If memory serves there was no way to uncouple group mapping, so this was part and parcel of Apple's push into the enterprise space (and in this case AD was behaving as an OpenDirectory server would've). Which is to say, their failure in that space was entirely a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more frustrating part was that an obvious security flaw was treated with such disdain, which encouraged me to stop caring about filing bug report with Apple (and it's lead me to keep the bluetooth modem off almost exclusively on my iPhone).That gig was actually mostly staffed with Apple alumni so there were 1st gen iPhones all around. Even the less esoteric stuff was simply not good. Obviously voice quality was shit (at least in San Francisco) compared to the CDMA feature phones of the day. One of the coworkers there worked on the mobile Mail.app before bailing for startup life. Autocomplete was a mess. Honestly, I rather enjoyed rubbing some salt into that wound.
What amazes me is that fifteen years on and Microsoft is still somehow worse (what with Windows being adware and all).