Apple Fixes Battery-Killing Software Bug

Nov 15, 2011 | Blogs

For coverage, see e.g. here or InformationWeek. Some sort of a software defect that caused excessive looping within the new iPhone operating system has been draining batteries around the world, and the new patch release is assumed to fix the issue. Now, it’s easy to shout from the audience that the operating system software should have been tested better, but we know how notoriously hard software testing is and can ever be. So let us not throw the first stone, or any stone for that matter, but dream together with you and Apple and everyone of a world, where a larger number of involuntary engineering errors and shortcomings will be spotted by algorithms and computer programs that work for us and for the common good…