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chasm said:

appleinsideruser said:

So is this saying that iCloud is flawed and 3rd parties can secretly add a snooping iMessage device to the account? If so, why not fix this flaw, rather than reporting when it’s happened?

No, they’re not saying that. Sorry you didn’t understand the article.

dewme said:

Maybe it’s just me, but over the past few years it seems like Apple announces several potentially interesting new features that will be introduced with the next version of the operating system, be it iOS, iPadOS, or macOS. During the presentation they quietly add a caveat that the feature is “coming soon’ or slap on an asterisk or some other designator to indicate that a feature won’t be included in the initial release or will be limited to certain products. In any case, by the end of the announcement you’re still pretty excited about all of the cool new stuff coming with the next release.

Fast forward several weeks and a slew of betas and finally the new OS finally hits your Software Update queue. You download the update, start using it and trying out all the new features in the release and you’re surprised that your actual experience doesn’t quite match how you felt when you first saw the flashy presentation back in June. There’s something missing. Yeah, you were warned, but now the reality of the delayed features hits home. There’s not as many jelly beans in the package as your brain envisioned you’d be getting with the new release.

Over the next weeks and months the promised features usually start appearing in point releases, along with bug fixes and security updates. By then, if you’re like me, these lagging feature rollouts kind of get lost in the sauce and you may have even forgotten about them to the point of not really knowing if you ever received everything that you thought the new OS would deliver. This is especially true if you quickly jump on every security update that Apple pushes out, which seems to occur every few weeks or even more often. On top of that, some of the highly touted and flashy new but delayed features that slither out with one of these frequent updates don’t always live up to the hype, for example, Stage Manager which is basically useless to the point of being annoying, especially if you manage your multi monitor manually or with third party tools. In the end you don’t know whether Apple underdelivered or you over-anticipated what the feature would give you, It’s probably a combination of both.

I would even go to the point of saying that the feature trickle-out model results in a situation where a substantial number of users wouldn’t even notice if a promised feature never showed up. What was promised in June fades into the fog cloud that comes with each new update that does not include the promised feature. If you’re not keeping track, not keeping score, or not being reminded by AppleInsider, it kind of disappears.