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"It just works" is a tricky promise to make good on. Microsoft never made this promise and nor does Google. As a Google fan I accept a certain amount of flakin
by drb311 11y ago
"It just works" is a tricky promise to make good on. Microsoft never made this promise and nor does Google.
As a Google fan I accept a certain amount of flakiness as part of the brand identity. It's always celebrated a quirky, rough feel. In some ways, Google is starting to get TOO slick.
People expect Apple to be innovative and reliable; too push the boundaries without ever falling over them. It's hard to do either consistently, successfully, at scale. It might be impossible to do both.
- x0x0 11y agoI suggest the difference is I, and other people I know, keep finding apple bugs so common and frequent that it's essentially clear there is no testing at all. viz the discoveryd fiasco. Either nobody there could be bothered to use stuff on a network or an exec forced it to be released anyway. Or trouble connecting iphones to itunes, etc.
- at-fates-hands 11y ago>>>> People expect Apple to be innovative and reliable; This is because your investment in their hardware is at a premium price. People expect when they drop 2-3K for a PC that both of things are going to be a given. Obviously, in the last few years, this hasn't been the case.
- cptskippy 11y ago> As a Google fan I accept a certain amount of flakiness as part of the brand identity I agree with you however I feel like they've been trying to shrug that off and grow up and that's left me a little underwhelmed. I got two thirds of the way through that article and realized that the way he felt about Apple was how I felt about Google. They keep thrusting crap upon us that no one asked for, remove stuff we do like, or neglect things until people abandon them. Meanwhile Microsoft has been dramatically stepping up it's game but everyone still looks at them like the Catholic Priest that molested them as a child.
- wineisfine 11y agoThats a great Microsoft analogy there! Spot on