A developer shares frustration with Apple's Feedback Assistant bug reporting process, describing how Apple silently ignored a bug report for three years before demanding verification within two weeks or the report would be closed. The bug in question — a network filter extension TCP connection and IP address leak — was confirmed still reproducible by Little Snitch developers on the latest macOS beta, yet Apple proceeded with the verification demand anyway. The author argues Apple artificially deflates open bug counts to mask software quality issues, and that the beta process serves more to burden developers than to fix bugs.
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