Apple executives defend software quality – Mac & i

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<- - rspeak_start!> the quality of Apple’s software have “increased significantly” in the last five years, stressed the head of development in an interview. The increasing device use and the mass of users problems are but inevitable

Software chief Craig Federighi has reports of problems with Apple’s programs and operating systems based position. The “Core Software -quality “have in the past five years” significantly increased “the manager explained as a guest in the Talk Show . The ever-increasing complexity, the sheer mass of users and the increasing time spent going to the devices, but sorrow necessarily that problems “here and there”. The quality of software is the “most important issue” for Apple.

Less app crashes in iOS 9

As an example, called Federighi that the crash rate of Apple- Apps in iOS 9.0 was lower than previously in all individual versions of iOS 8. This was due in part to the public beta program that brings the software in advance in significantly more users hands.

In the past, hardly any users have installed large operating system updates as OS X 10.6.0 Snow Leopard, now climb half of users within a few weeks to a new version to so Federighi. Given 1 billion active Apple devices the bar lying therefore always higher.

Internal debate on iTunes contaminated

presented in regard to iTunes Apple’s content chief Eddy Cue further improvements in prospect, to be published along with OS X 10.11.4 in March. Apple will continue to consider whether a separate app just for music makes sense that exists independently of iTunes and its accumulated legacy – after the program originates still from a time have synchronized in the user their local music wired. So far Apple think it is right to link the existing local music collections and iTunes with the new streaming service in a program.

In the call, the manager mentioned also that Apple Music now has over 11 million members, and 782 million iCloud users. At peak times on the news app respectively iMessage 200,000 messages per second would be sent. By comparison, the Messenger WhatsApp this is around 480,000 messages per second <- rspeak_stop -> (lbe) span>