Maha
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At the end of the day the iPhone and iPod Touch are computing platforms with an OS and 3rd party applications… not simply a phone. As a developer I for one would like to know what bugs were being addressed as it may very well impact my development testing. I’m more concerned that the thought seems to be to shield the public from the nature of the updates — implying a lack of confidence in Apple engineers to have adequately plugged the holes. I fix bugs all the time but I tell people which one’s I’ve addressed so they can try them out and let me know when I’ve buggered something up.

I don’t think any other phone manufacturers give details on firmware updates. I have a Nokia N800 and Nokia never says what bug fixes were in the latest update.

As I said originally, I expect less openness on bugs when they affect security since it would be unfortunate to give too much information on vulnerabilities since there will be many unpatched computers. But even beyond that, some companies, including Microsoft and Apple, minimize reports of problems so as to appear to have a better product.

Not everyone believes that Microsoft tells you what bugs were fixed.

e.g., http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Microsoft-Report-on-IE-Security-Draws-Mozilla-Rebuttal/

Others such as Microsoft and Sun tell you what bugs were fixed. I can understand a less open attitude about security issues, but for Apple to keep such secrecy for regular bugs is odd and a bit creepy.

While doing the update there are several links under the announcement that the update has bug fixes, but all are generic links with no information about the bugs that were fixed.

VPN on my iPod Touch is working now after the update… (always worked on my iPhone)

If they told us then we would know if they tried to fix all those things we are just imagining aren’t working right. Since they say nothing we must believe in the calming this placebic jewel injects.

if Apple doesnt think i need to know, then i dont need to know.

thats what us good sheep do.