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Questions Raised about Apple Software Quality

posted by martyb on Tuesday January 20 2015, @09:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the missing-Logic-7 dept.

Hugh Pickens writes:

Jean-Louis Gassée writes in Monday Note that the painful gestation of OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) with its damaged iWork apps, the chaotic iOS 8 launch, iCloud glitches, and the trouble with Continuity, have raised concerns about the quality of Apple software. “It Just Works”, the company’s pleasant-sounding motto, has became an easy target, giving rise to jibes of “it just needs more work”.

"I suspect the rapid decline of Apple’s software is a sign that marketing is too high a priority at Apple today," writes Marco Arment. "having major new releases every year is clearly impossible for the engineering teams to keep up with while maintaining quality." Many issues revolve around the general reliability of OS X.

"With Yosemite, I typically have to reboot my laptop at least once a day, and my desktop every few days of use," writes Glenn Fleishman. "The point of owning a Mac is to not have to reboot it regularly. There have been times in the past between OS X updates where I've gone weeks to months without a restart."

I know what I hope for concludes Gassée. "I don’t expect perfection, I’ve lived inside several sausage factories and remember the smell. If Apple were to spend a year concentrating on solid fixes rather than releasing software that’s pushed out to fit a hardware schedule, that would show an ascent rather than a slide."

 
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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 20 2015, @11:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 20 2015, @11:44AM (#136307)
    Played everything from stupid webgames to dosbox games to minecraft java mess to far cry 4 and other big aaa titles.
    Done everything from video encoding to picture creation and all the daily management of TB of files.

    I haven't rebooted win7 in 122 days... Since the power went out for longer than my UPS can do.

    Come a long way since 95 reboot 5 times a day...
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 20 2015, @02:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 20 2015, @02:24PM (#136361)

    Oh yeah? Well I've had my atari running for 40 consecutive years and played all pacman variants on it and this either isn't in any way related to the article at hand...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 20 2015, @04:13PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 20 2015, @04:13PM (#136404)

      I almost feel sad for the M$ sockpuppets who praise the Windows OS. They sure hit this site running!

  • (Score: 1) by kanweg on Tuesday January 20 2015, @04:54PM

    by kanweg (4737) on Tuesday January 20 2015, @04:54PM (#136417)

    I have to restart mine every two weeks or so for a new security update. What gives?

    Bert

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 20 2015, @09:47PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 20 2015, @09:47PM (#136517)

      http://m.xkcd.com/350/ [xkcd.com]
      ...except that the AC is trying to do it on bare metal, on 1 machine.

      -- gewg_