A new website takes Apple’s most persistent software bugs and reframes them as a hilarious scoreboard, using intentionally over-the-top math to estimate how many collective human hours they’ve supposedly wasted over the years.
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Bugs Apple Loves describes itself as:
“A satirical website documenting how much time humanity wastes because of bugs that Apple seemingly loves so much that they keep them around forever.”
Currently, the site lists 16 bugs, with the oldest one (Finder Forgets Window Sizes) dating back to 2001.
Here’s the full list of currently listed bugs, each with its cheeky subtitle:
Finally, Bugs Apple Loves has a GitHub repository, where users can submit new Apple bugs, or suggest improvements to the website.
Bugs Apple Loves is well worth a look. The copywriting is genuinely hilarious, and it might offer some much-needed relief as you wrestle with your own pet issues across Apple’s operating systems.
Bravo.
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Collectively, according to the website’s admittedly made-up estimates, humanity currently wastes a total of 32.4 million years per year on these bugs.
I agree that this is useful, if only to possibly highlight to Apple that these things all still occur and are real annoyances. “Finder doesn’t save window size” happens 100% of the time with my internal storage disk (all removable stay the same).
The equivalent of this for Windows, however, would reveal literally tens of billions of man-hours lost to multiple orders of magnitude more problems.
However, Bugs Apple Loves lets you do your own math, adjusting multiple parameters, including the percentage of affected users, how frequently the bug occurs, how long it takes to reach the desired result, and how many attempts are required to complete each action.
