Wi-Fi Assist: a $5 million mess

Alf Watt: I worked on the Mac OS Wi-Fi client user experience at Apple from 2007-2012, implementing a number of features to help users identify when a Wi-Fi connection was not working as expected, as well as the utilities built into the OS to help debug problems when they occurred. When I left Apple, just after my five year anniversary, I owned the Wi-Fi Utility and Network Utility apps, along with some assorted supporting components deep inside the OS.During my last few years I spent a lot of t...