Comments on: Apple patches 3 years old bug

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:38:57 +0000

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?

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:22:17 +0000

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…

By: Tristan

Tristan — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:19:55 +0000

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.

By: tps

tps — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:41:12 +0000

TIL, Apple employees use four year old laptops.

By: glenn

glenn — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:05:15 +0000

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.

By: david

david — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:17:36 +0000

On the other hands, one could ask why did Apple wait 4 years to fix an (annoying) recognized bug?! 😉