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."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 20 2015, @05:53PM
Apple is the epitome of change for the sake of progress. The larger part of its customer base wants style and flash over substance.
So why spend the time and money on QA? Besides, QA tends to slow the tide of new shiny feature releases which is in conflict with selling the new hotness....so.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Wednesday January 21 2015, @12:14AM
Gold-plated shit is still shit, and Apple is selling shit. Eventually, Apple will lose its luster and go the way of other former successes in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.