> That the ~50000 engineers at Apple are conspiring to close your tickets in the exact same way. It's ridiculou

It's pretty clear from experience that the organization policy is to not provide feedback on bug submissions. Getting a 'check it if still reproduces or we'll close it in two weeks' message after 3 years is actually a fast turnaround.

Best I've gotten was on an issue I routed to a friend who worked at Apple who promised it would get looked at, but that I wouldn't hear back.

Microsoft wouldn't fix my issues either, but at least they got back to me in a timely fashion. Usually telling me it was a known issue that they weren't going to fix.

Not my tickets specifically. I don't think they're out to get me individually. On the contrary, this is a common practice, which affects many developers. I just happen to be relatively loud, as far as blogging is concerned.