Abject Praise

It's perilous to disagree with someone as wise and thoughtful as Jeremy, but for the past fortnight his post in response to Apple's iOS 27 marketing invades my quiet moments like a cricket in the attic. "Why", I ruminate, "should someone who understands the state of play give Apple credit for doing less than the minimum while rubbishing those who have consistently done more?" ContentsReduxFeatures Over TestsConsequencesYou Do Not Have To Hand It To ThemQuality Has A Quality All Its Own Redux Like Apple's previous marketing of Safari 16.4 and Safari 26, the conjoined September release of Safari and iOS 27 documents an achingly slow release cycle. It would be one thing if the features or spec conformance were world-beating, but looking closely at the release notes, Safari 27 is set to deliver fixes to issues that, by and large, competing engines didn't suffer.1 Don't get me wrong: it's great that Apple is focusing on quality; it remains a persistent issue for Safari. But how much relief…