Proofreading software

When a company markets a product as perfect and constantly re-invents it, there will be growing pain. There are some issues that should almost never exist with even a modest QA process however, which includes proofreading, and here’s Stephen Hackett describing a grammar problem in Disk Utility:

  1. The first sentence should read “….destroy all of the data.” It currently transposes “all” and “of.”
  2. “Enter a name, choose a format” is a comma splice. Break it into two sentences or use a semicolon.

Even given Apple’s software woes, this is an unfortunate misstep for a core system utility.