This is just plain bizarre.
It is plainly obvious that no one is going to "check every line of
code in every third party component". Such a task would be
almost as difficult as originating the code in the first place. That
question is purely rhetorical and as such needs no answer.
There is, however, such a thing as acting with due diligence to
make sure that those third-party components actually work for
you in the way you envision. Not checking every line of code,
but certainly running a test suite to uncover any potential problems.
In the case of a essential calendaring component, it would be
reasonable to assume that this would include checking various
critical dates, like Dec 31, Jan 1 for every year and Feb 29, Mar 1
for leap years. Heck, it would be a fairly easy test to automate,
checking every single day well beyond the expected life of the
product would not be unreasonable. Plainly, no one at Microsoft
made sure that this test was properly done--not terribly surprising
because we already had indications that Zune 1.0 was a rush job.
Now, there is room to argue as to whether or not Apple is this
sloppy as often as Microsoft seems to be. I tend to think not, but
you can argue otherwise with examples like the most recent software
update, which in a few cases did not download fully but tried to
execute anyway.
On Jan 5, 2009, at 12:00 AM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system
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Subject: Re: Zunepocalypse
Statements that include terms like "every," "all," "none,"
"always," or
"never" usually have the answer built into the question. Your
ridiculous, stacked-deck question is unworthy.
As Mike notes, you have finally answered the question, rather
circuitously,
with "No, Apple does not check every line of code in every third-party
component." If you admit (finally) that no one checks -every- line
of code
in -every- component, then you cannot classify MS as incompetent
because it
failed to check -this- one line of code in -this- one component.
There simply is no logic in your position that no one completely
validates
every component, yet MS is clueless because it failed to do exactly
that.
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