Why wouldn't Apple encourage devout users such as the author, to claim actual bounties for such finds? Like - a pair of pods for every 5 UI bugs they find? Tis a rich company after all...
Ludicrous. Bug reports by the average user are worthless and generally a net negative if you consider incorrect and duplicate reports.
Paying user for bug reports would just incentivize very prolific spammers (you know who) to fuzz your entire OS and automate sending thousands of reports a day.
Even correct bug reports are a drain on your engineers' time and attention, and it frustrates power users to file them because being amateurs they often put too much effort into doing it.
Apple traditionally had a culture of a lot of high quality bug reports, but once those become too fast for anyone to keep in their head, there's no point to them because they'll just get lost. You might as well just go look for bugs if you run out of some. You'll find them.
There must be a way for certain automated vetting in 2026 for this, you think in terms of human reviews. Most of what's in this article is easily confirmed by VLMs today (IMHO at least, and I do a shitloads of VLM work for more than an year now, daily).
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Paying user for bug reports would just incentivize very prolific spammers (you know who) to fuzz your entire OS and automate sending thousands of reports a day.
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Apple traditionally had a culture of a lot of high quality bug reports, but once those become too fast for anyone to keep in their head, there's no point to them because they'll just get lost. You might as well just go look for bugs if you run out of some. You'll find them.
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