Time is money and engineers aren't given time to properly finish developing software before releases.
Add to this the modern way of being able to hotfix or update features and you will set an even lower bar for working software.
The reason an iPod didn't release with a broken music player is that back then forcing users to just update their app/OS was too big an ask. You shipped complete products.
Now a company like Apple even prides itself by releasing phone hardware with missing software features: Deep Fusion released months after the newest iPhone was released.
Software delivery became faster and it is being abused. It is not only being used to ship fixes and complete new features, but it is being used to ship incomplete software that will be fixed later.
As a final sidenote while I'm whining about Apple: as a consultant in the devops field with an emphasis on CI/CD, the relative difficulty of using macOS in a CI/CD pipeline makes me believe that Apple has a terrible time testing its software. This is pure speculation based on how my experience. A pure Apple shop has probably solved many of the problems and hiccups we might run into, but that's why I used the term "relatively difficult".
Add to this the modern way of being able to hotfix or update features and you will set an even lower bar for working software.
The reason an iPod didn't release with a broken music player is that back then forcing users to just update their app/OS was too big an ask. You shipped complete products.
Now a company like Apple even prides itself by releasing phone hardware with missing software features: Deep Fusion released months after the newest iPhone was released.
Software delivery became faster and it is being abused. It is not only being used to ship fixes and complete new features, but it is being used to ship incomplete software that will be fixed later.
As a final sidenote while I'm whining about Apple: as a consultant in the devops field with an emphasis on CI/CD, the relative difficulty of using macOS in a CI/CD pipeline makes me believe that Apple has a terrible time testing its software. This is pure speculation based on how my experience. A pure Apple shop has probably solved many of the problems and hiccups we might run into, but that's why I used the term "relatively difficult".