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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: 2) by quacking duck on Thursday January 22 2015, @09:58PM
We're pretty much in agreement there, I did say earlier that "Apple really shouldn't release updates for older devices if they compromise performance that much."
Apple targets iOS updates to be installable on devices 3 generations back, so 2014's iOS 8 can be installed onto 2011's iPhone 4S, and iOS 7 installs onto 2010's iPhone 4. There's always a slew of performance problems for the first couple months until the version x.1 release comes out, then it's often tolerable if not exactly acceptable.
Where Apple definitely fails their customers is blocking the ability to roll back iOS on the oldest supported hardware, if the user wants to.