Apple Working on Fix for Spotify Kernel Panic Bug on OS X

I mean it sounds like it's Spotify's software causing the crash. Why can't they fix their own code? I wouldn't exactly be expecting a swift response from Apple when their  Music competitor is having issues.

User space code should never be able to cause a kernel panic. If it's happening, it's the fault of the kernel space code.

I mean it sounds like it's Spotify's software causing the crash. Why can't they fix their own code? I wouldn't exactly be expecting a swift response from Apple when their  Music competitor is having issues.

Edit: I'm not saying that Apple's shouldn't fix whatever bug is on their end. Just that Spotify wasn't crashing until they changed something in their own code for 1.0.15.133. Yes, Apple needs to fix their OS, but Spotify shouldn't just let their customers suffer in the interim— what's preventing them from reverting to the code that wasn't causing their user's computers to crash?

Clearly you have absolutely no idea how programming works.

If Apple provides an API, it's Apple's responsibility to make sure that API doesn't cause a kernel panic. Simple.

Also, it's not just Spotify crashing.....

I mean it sounds like it's Spotify's software causing the crash. Why can't they fix their own code? I wouldn't exactly be expecting a swift response from Apple when their  Music competitor is having issues.

A perfectly-designed OS should never kernel panic at all because of malfunctioning third-party software. There are surely bugs to fix at both Apple and Spotify.

Agreed on that last sentence, though.

Yeah let me just turn off my Firewall.

Yes. What I originally quoted.

" OS X 10.9.5 was crashing after updating to Spotify version 1.0.15.133."

It doesn't say that Spotify was crashing after updating OS X, so it's obviously something Spotify changed in their code. (unless MR is just doing a ****** job reporting the story and has the details wrong.)

Your explanation completely ignores that, according to the article: 1. Apple acknowledges the bug. 2. Is working on a fix. 3. The bug affects other apps.

So either Spotify and the other affected apps made the exact same changes to their software, causing kernel panics, or it's a known bug that Apple will eventually fix. Based on evidence presented, I'm more inclined to believe Apple knows about the bug and will fix it.

I mean it sounds like it's Spotify's software causing the crash. Why can't they fix their own code? I wouldn't exactly be expecting a swift response from Apple when their  Music competitor is having issues.

I don't know how you came to that conclusion. It seems pretty clear according to the article:
"I've been in contact with Apple and they have confirmed that this is a known bug in the current and recent versions of OS X. They are working on a fix, but I don't know when they will roll that out. The bug that is causing the kernel panic is being triggered when running Spotify simply because the Spotify app is making network requests (to stream music etc.) and there are several other apps that also cause the same kernel panic to occur."

Did you read something somewhere else that lead you to think it's the Spotify software? Apple confirmed the bug after all.