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I doubt Apple code quality dropped significantly. I'm not sure that's a safe bet. iOS updates have become notorious for things breaking, sometimes in very obvi

I doubt Apple code quality dropped significantly. I'm not sure that's a safe bet. iOS updates have become notorious for things breaking, sometimes in very obvious ways. I have an iPhone and a recent update caused some very obvious degradation of battery lifetime between charges, for example. Given that I have an unmodified phone running almost nothing but the standard Apple software, and the tiny number of apps I do have installed haven't been used since before that update, there isn't much excuse for this. Meanwhile, I currently have email disabled on my phone pending a fix for a known security vulnerability that is reportedly going to be included in a firmware update delivered several weeks after the vulnerability was out in the wild and doing the rounds on tech sites. Neither of these is reassuring when it comes to the current state of iOS robustness and security, and five minutes with Google will show that my experience is not unusual among iPhone users in recent times.

spideymans 6y ago
There's been widespread claims of dropping quality in iOS updates nearly as long as iOS has been around. I don't doubt that there's been issues with software quality (that'll be true in any organization), but I suspect there's a great deal of recency bias with these claims.
- Silhouette 6y ago
  I've used iOS devices of one kind or another since around the 2nd and 3rd generations, and seen some of those devices through years of major updates. Anecdotally, I have never seen things as bad as they have been in the past couple of years, other than Apple's seemingly arbitrary policy on abandoning support for older (but not necessarily old by most standards) devices entirely. The really sad thing is that iOS devices still seem to be relatively robust compared to either Windows 10 or macOS on the desktop. It feels like Apple and Microsoft have both decided they are so dominant now that quality control doesn't need to be a business priority, and as a result we've left behind the "golden age" up to the mid-2010s when your OS mostly Just Worked(TM) and entered a new age where the most basic reliability of our essential IT systems is in question.

spideymans 6y ago

There's been widespread claims of dropping quality in iOS updates nearly as long as iOS has been around. I don't doubt that there's been issues with software quality (that'll be true in any organization), but I suspect there's a great deal of recency bias with these claims.

Silhouette 6y ago
I've used iOS devices of one kind or another since around the 2nd and 3rd generations, and seen some of those devices through years of major updates. Anecdotally, I have never seen things as bad as they have been in the past couple of years, other than Apple's seemingly arbitrary policy on abandoning support for older (but not necessarily old by most standards) devices entirely. The really sad thing is that iOS devices still seem to be relatively robust compared to either Windows 10 or macOS on the desktop. It feels like Apple and Microsoft have both decided they are so dominant now that quality control doesn't need to be a business priority, and as a result we've left behind the "golden age" up to the mid-2010s when your OS mostly Just Worked(TM) and entered a new age where the most basic reliability of our essential IT systems is in question.