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One of the most-common complaints that I see about Apple is that they have allowed macOS' quality to steadily decline and the most-common speculation has been t
by KGIII 9y ago
One of the most-common complaints that I see about Apple is that they have allowed macOS' quality to steadily decline and the most-common speculation has been that this declination in quality is because macOS makes Apple less money than iOS.
The iOS-using products are Apple's cash cow. It does make sense that they'd prioritize working on iOS. However, what doesn't make sense is that Apple certainly has enough resources to work on both OSes. It's not like they don't have enough money to hire good developers.
That is the complaint, however. It makes some sense, except that Apple could easily afford to invest in both macOS and iOS.
- exikyut 9y agoManglement seems to have collectively forgotten that iOS app quality is dependent on macOS and tooling quality. Improve macOS, you put a lightness in devs' steps everywhere and iOS apps get even better. It seems that macOS has gotten completely bogged down (like really, really bogged down) and mired in bureaucracy. What I just described is a "little thing" that's very very hard to quantify to non-engineers, sadly. (I recently learned (I have no exposure to Apple, I'd like to but their stuff is expensive!!) that you can't just "go ahead and upgrade Xcode", but that you have to do it in a very specific/esoteric way or you break absolutely everything, and that it's not unreasonable sometimes to just nuke macOS from orbit and green-field reinstall everything.)
- spydum 9y agoThat last paragraph will seem familiar to anyone running prior versions of Windows... What an ironic turn of events!
- astrange 9y agoXcode is just an app (minus some bits shared with iTunes). What problems are you having updating it?
- tosstossy 9y agoMacOS is a dead end, iOS is clearly where Apple is converging and you'll shortly see ARM laptops from Apple shipping iOS. It's only a matter of time before their flagship productivity-oriented products are running iOS.
- TheKarateKid 9y agoiOS' stability and quality have declined as well. I've encountered a number of glitches and bugs on the iPhone that I don't usually expect from Apple. Some of them are sloppy glitches in functionality or display, others have to do with poor stability (force closing more often). Never encountered any of these issues on iOS a few years ago.
- dlwdlw 9y agoDesperation creates grasping feature creep.