Frustrated Developers Start Petition Asking Apple to 'Fix Radar or GTFO'

Developers frustrated with Apple's poor bug reporting system have started an online petition asking the company to 'Fix Radar or GTFO', reports TNW.

The petition was created, and the first Radar filed, on March 6th by Martin Pilkington of M Cubed Software. Pilkington writes:

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Dear Apple,


We need to talk. We love your software, we really do. Or maybe we don't but we want to tell you why so you can try to improve it. We are developers ourselves and we know how hard it is to write software, to find and fix bugs, to know what your users want from your software. We want to file bug reports and feature requests for every bug we find or feature we think of. As a community we want you to know what is important to us, in a way that doesn't require you to trawl through countless blogs and tweets. Unfortunately you're making it so incredibly hard to do so.

The only way to really communicate with Apple about what is broken and what we want is Radar. But Radar sucks, and has done for a very, VERY long time. This puts a lot of people off filing radars. The user interface is awkward and slow. We have to stop what we're doing and go to a web UI that still thinks we're running Mac OS X 10.1, that makes it awkward to look at bugs we've already filed and generally is un-Apple-like.
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You can continue reading his plea to Apple at the link below. If you want to lend your name to the petition there are instructions for how to do so as well.

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