Apple fixes stuff it needs to use

From Jason Snell’s “emptying the notebook” post about WWDC at Six Colors. A lot of frustrating bugs sit, untouched, for years. Apple has its priorities, and shiny new features get the love while rickety old stuff never rises to the level of being important enough to fix. Until, that is, Apple needs to have that feature work right in order to serve one of its priorities for the latest OS release.…