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Apple fundamentally does not understand software. A shame, as the software, really, was their original special sauce with the Mac 128k and beyond. Today, howev

Apple fundamentally does not understand software. A shame, as the software, really, was their original special sauce with the Mac 128k and beyond. Today, however, the company really doesn't understand how to make, maintain, or market software. It sees software as a way to spread their control of their hardware further into your life. It's going to be the death of Apple, mark my words.

wvenable 10y ago
Out of all the consumer electronics companies, Apple makes the best software. (Edit: This is not a compliment)
- andrepd 10y ago
  I beg to differ.
- NicoJuicy 10y ago
  Tell that to the author of this post
- e40 10y ago
  It's pretty clear that iTunes is one of the worst pieces of software available on Mac or Windows. It certainly makes the top 10.
  - MaysonL 10y ago
    One of the worst widely distributed and used pieces of software. There are many, many, crappies, buggier, pieces of software out there; it's just that nobody has to use them.
- gumby 10y ago
  Sad to say, the bar is so low that I agree -- they make the least terrible software of a consumer electronics company. It's how I've felt for decades as a Mac user: boy they suck, but they suck less than any of the (desktop) alternatives. (edit: I see you updated your post to clarify -- now this is redundant.)
- mxfh 10y ago
  And it wants you to be a consumer badly. The case described here, is of a producer/artist loosing unique works due to a consumer software rationale, that assumes that all in the reach of the software is not yours and thereby at whims of the license givers/maintainers.
  - wvenable 10y ago
    Also Apple only begrudgingly supports Enterprise customers with their iDevices. It seems like it should be a huge opportunity for Microsoft to make a dent with their mobile platform but they decided to focus on the consumer market as well.
clapinton 10y ago
I worked with a Google engineer once and he offered me advice as I was considering buying a new phone, namely the HTC One: "Phone manufacturers know how to make hardware. Google knows how to make software. When you marry the two with both knowing their place in the world, things work out. When one tries to make what the other does, you get crappy stuff on top of your system. Stick to vanilla Android, man." Having said that, I see Apple more as a hardware manufacturer than as a software one. You don't hear Jony Ive and his seductive British accent passionately talking about iOS or OSX as many times as he does about new hardware. It doesn't see software in the same way it sees hardware. Still, I can't complain about Apple offering free OSX upgrades, including major ones, for quite some time now and also managing to maintain backward compatibility for a rather large span of devices (my early 2011 MBP still flows nicely with OSX El Cap).
- xigency 10y ago
  You're lucky El Capitan works for you. Usually with iPhone/iPod Video upgrades, getting the latest version of iOS with an older device can significantly degrade performance. (And I'm sure it's the same with iPads.) At least on a Macbook you can reinstall the operating system, but an iPhone 4 is stuck like that.
  - Splendor 10y ago
    > Usually with iPhone/iPod Video upgrades, getting the latest version of iOS with an older device can significantly degrade performance. Is this claim based on anecdotal evidence or some other source?
    - atom-morgan 10y ago
      Anecdotal. But literally everyone I know says this including me.
    - deleted 10y ago
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    - xigency 10y ago

wvenable 10y ago

Out of all the consumer electronics companies, Apple makes the best software. (Edit: This is not a compliment)

andrepd 10y ago
I beg to differ.
NicoJuicy 10y ago
Tell that to the author of this post
e40 10y ago
It's pretty clear that iTunes is one of the worst pieces of software available on Mac or Windows. It certainly makes the top 10.
- MaysonL 10y ago
  One of the worst widely distributed and used pieces of software. There are many, many, crappies, buggier, pieces of software out there; it's just that nobody has to use them.
gumby 10y ago
Sad to say, the bar is so low that I agree -- they make the least terrible software of a consumer electronics company. It's how I've felt for decades as a Mac user: boy they suck, but they suck less than any of the (desktop) alternatives. (edit: I see you updated your post to clarify -- now this is redundant.)
mxfh 10y ago
And it wants you to be a consumer badly. The case described here, is of a producer/artist loosing unique works due to a consumer software rationale, that assumes that all in the reach of the software is not yours and thereby at whims of the license givers/maintainers.
- wvenable 10y ago
  Also Apple only begrudgingly supports Enterprise customers with their iDevices. It seems like it should be a huge opportunity for Microsoft to make a dent with their mobile platform but they decided to focus on the consumer market as well.

clapinton 10y ago

I worked with a Google engineer once and he offered me advice as I was considering buying a new phone, namely the HTC One: "Phone manufacturers know how to make hardware. Google knows how to make software. When you marry the two with both knowing their place in the world, things work out. When one tries to make what the other does, you get crappy stuff on top of your system. Stick to vanilla Android, man." Having said that, I see Apple more as a hardware manufacturer than as a software one. You don't hear Jony Ive and his seductive British accent passionately talking about iOS or OSX as many times as he does about new hardware. It doesn't see software in the same way it sees hardware. Still, I can't complain about Apple offering free OSX upgrades, including major ones, for quite some time now and also managing to maintain backward compatibility for a rather large span of devices (my early 2011 MBP still flows nicely with OSX El Cap).

xigency 10y ago
You're lucky El Capitan works for you. Usually with iPhone/iPod Video upgrades, getting the latest version of iOS with an older device can significantly degrade performance. (And I'm sure it's the same with iPads.) At least on a Macbook you can reinstall the operating system, but an iPhone 4 is stuck like that.
- Splendor 10y ago
  > Usually with iPhone/iPod Video upgrades, getting the latest version of iOS with an older device can significantly degrade performance. Is this claim based on anecdotal evidence or some other source?
  - atom-morgan 10y ago
    Anecdotal. But literally everyone I know says this including me.
  - deleted 10y ago
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  - xigency 10y ago