The reason I threw that in is because I've personally worked on a few of these apps, and also some of the backing APIs the apps consumed. I know first-hand tha

The reason I threw that in is because I've personally worked on a few of these apps, and also some of the backing APIs the apps consumed. I know first-hand that many of the ones that suffer from weird and annoying quirks would be a thousand times better if they had any reliable QA process (most don't), and were run by teams that were invested in the company's success. Outsourced doesn't only mean 'to other countries', but in many cases to consultancies, since for some strange reason many media companies don't see their apps as being a core competency, so they farm it out, and the results are always 2nd-tier at best.