Comments on: Apple patches 3 years old bug https://www.stormacq.com/apple-patches-3-years-old-bug/ Some not-so random thoughts about this small IT World Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:47:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: anonymous https://www.stormacq.com/apple-patches-3-years-old-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-1788 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:38:57 +0000 https://www.stormacq.com/?p=459#comment-1788 What I want to know is why are tens of thousands of people getting white screen of death errors on multiple devices all made by apple all recently off warranty?

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By: Michael https://www.stormacq.com/apple-patches-3-years-old-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-1781 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:22:17 +0000 https://www.stormacq.com/?p=459#comment-1781 As an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician, I began to doubt my eyes after replacing my display and logic board in attempts to remedy this issue on the internal display. Of course they would release a firmware fix after I’ve gone and sold it…

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By: Tristan https://www.stormacq.com/apple-patches-3-years-old-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-1780 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:19:55 +0000 https://www.stormacq.com/?p=459#comment-1780 As a software developer, with some hardware programming experience, let me say from experience that some bugs do actually take years to solve. But usually only if they’re low priority. But as an owner of a 2008 MBP, I’m very happy with this fix and thankful to whoever figured it out.

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By: tps https://www.stormacq.com/apple-patches-3-years-old-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-1779 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:41:12 +0000 https://www.stormacq.com/?p=459#comment-1779 TIL, Apple employees use four year old laptops.

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By: glenn https://www.stormacq.com/apple-patches-3-years-old-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-1777 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:05:15 +0000 https://www.stormacq.com/?p=459#comment-1777 Its more likely that an employee couldn’t live with the fact that this was happening to his code that he spent 4 years fixing it… poor guy … apple gets all the credit.

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By: david https://www.stormacq.com/apple-patches-3-years-old-bug/comment-page-1/#comment-1620 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:17:36 +0000 https://www.stormacq.com/?p=459#comment-1620 On the other hands, one could ask why did Apple wait 4 years to fix an (annoying) recognized bug?! 😉

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