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

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: 0, Redundant) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday January 20 2015, @03:13PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Tuesday January 20 2015, @03:13PM (#136384) Homepage

    This. Parent speaks the truth.

    How could anybody actually hold onto their AAPL stock with a straight face after Steve-O kicked the bucket? Short-city time, fellas.

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  • (Score: 2) by quacking duck on Tuesday January 20 2015, @03:27PM

    by quacking duck (1395) on Tuesday January 20 2015, @03:27PM (#136391)

    Have you actually *looked* at AAPL for the last five years, i.e. "after Steve-O kicked the bucket"?

    You can argue against *continuing* to keep the stock, but up til now those holding onto the stock since Jobs died are definitely not straight faced, they've been laughing all the way to the bank.