When was this?
Remember Snow Leopard? The release The Internet likes to parade as the Last Good OS X Release? It had a bug where your all user data will be deleted if logging into the Guest account. Here's a headline from the time: Snow Leopard Bug is a Doozy, How Did Apple Miss it? [1] Sound familiar?
Or in 2010 (and all the times after) when they couldn't get DST right and would screw up people's alarms.
[1]: https://www.cio.com/article/2423952/security0/snow-leopard-b... [2]: https://www.cultofmac.com/60691/ios-alarms-broken-for-new-ze...
Given that (s)he quoted the latter, that wasn’t the part that madeofpalk replied to.
1/ ios used to be new and evolved a lot. So having mistakes were understandable. iOS11 new feature is the larger navigationbar and some drag n drop. Compare that to adding autolayout (iOS 7) or ARC (iOS4).
2/ very shortly after the release, apple would quickly update the os and after just a few months the os started to work a lot better with few if any noticeable issue. iOS 11 is close to a year old and hasn't improved by any noticeable margin.
3/ iOS lag was expected because new feature would consume more cpu. User interfaces became more complexe (few people remember the time when the official UIKit guideline said that one screen should have only one view controller). Hardware was still a bit short, and they came with brand new interactions , fancy animations and twice the image resolution. But now that the hardware is pretty much as powerful as a regular laptop,and the UI has basically stayed the same, having a new OS version making your phone lag becomes unacceptable.
I don't understand where this myth of Apple software quality comes from. There are many examples showing the opposite. Here is just one:
https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-news-digest/data-loss-b...
By this point, blue screens in Windows were quite rare.
If you’re an Apple VP right now, your concerns are about branching into new industries like driverless cars or heads-up displays. A graphical bug on one OS isn’t going to perturb you.
A lot of the flack going Apple’s way should be directed at the lack of innovation in the rest of the industry. If Apple felt their smartphone dominance was actually threatened, you can be sure the focus would be put there.
This is the price of the success Apple fans like myself were hoping for through the OS X era.
Apple is “allowed” to do whatever they choose but their decisions are likely constrained by the reality of organizing so many complex products.
Not necessarily the wrong strategy or even a bad strategy. If there are enough people out there willing to pay in money and effort to switch ecosystems, there is space in the market for a smartphone with more simplicity and attention to detail.
If not, which I think is most likely, this is just what we’re stuck with.
I can’t disagree more with regard to their product bugs. I’ve been around Apple software and hardware for a long time, since the beginning, and they’ve always had terrible bugs and design mistakes. Always.
I think you have to be a certain type of user to see this. You can’t be one of those people who has ever fallen victim to their reality distortion field.
As someone who's been an Apple fanboy since the 80s, that's just bullshit.
Apple made its fortune by paying attention to the small details.
The keyboard started missing keys and typing 2 characters per keystroke after two months. Then, the shift key started working only once ever three times. Battery would last 2 hours at the most.
I brought it to the Apple store. They ran tests and found out the battery was defective. So, they replaced the whole bottom case since the keyboard wasn't working, either.
After 3 days, the logic board died. All data was unrecoverable (sure, _I_ have backups, but not everyone does).
Went back to the Apple store, they replaced EVERYTHING. I put an ad and sell the laptop. The guy calls me 3 days later that the laptop died again (logic board).
Bad unity? Perhaps, but then again lots and lots of people compain about problems with the keyboard. They also replaced every single component, and it still failed.
That was my main computer, so I had to buy a shitty laptop while I was waiting days for them to repair it. The Asus worked GREAT. I could finally type, at least. I just sold it and in 6 months it never gave me one single problem. Battery was 5-6 hours under heavy load.
I just don't think Apple sells defect-free computers, or at least not what you'd expect after spending USD 2000. Of course, quality that delights comes after the thing actually working (tes, it's a computer so it's not acceptable to me that it barely looks pretty, I also have to use it for work).
I am now using a Chinese lqptop that I bought for 500 with hidpi touchscreen, fingerprint recognition, etc., and it actually works. I will buy the Surface Book as soon as I have some money to splurge.
The action of the keys is so small that a tiny grain of dirt will stop the key. So the testers must've only tested it for a week inside a cleanroom.
I can't recommend the new Macbook Pro. My next computer will be an Air (if they don't "upgrade" the keyboard), a 2015 Pro, or something else entirely.
I lost all trust in Apple. Specially because it was my first high-end laptop.after always buying MacBook Airs...
Others might call that setting the right priorities. With attention to infinitesimal detail comes infinitesimal increase in battery use, to paraphrase the old spidey.