Massimo Marino typed this message on 10/1/03 2:30 AM: > Indeed but is not that true that Apple has a compatibility Lab with > most models and configurations available? I would expect that Apple > does extensive tests on those machines before releasing. Hence my > question: how problems like the ones complained about - especially in > Apple Discussions - do get unnoticed? > I tend to believe they did not appear on Apple test machine so what is > making an OS update a failure for a sufficiently large spectrum of > machines for Apple to pull it out? (homework not entirely done?!) Perhaps I am mistaken, but doesn't the process involve seeding copies of a major update to developers to give it a thorough field test before they let it out the door? If this isn't the case, I submit that it SHOULD be. jg