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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: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 21 2015, @02:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 21 2015, @02:01AM (#136566)

    You left out a huge part of the story.
    M$ told WordPerfect "These are the APIs we will be using for Lose95".
    When Lose95 actually released, M$ had used an entirely different set of APIs. [google.com]
    ...and M$'s own wordprocessor was built with the real deal, gaining an anti-competitive edge.

    It's just another case of a M$ "partner" getting stabbed in the back.

    -- gewg_

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