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Apple's software quality has been markedly going down People have said the same thing about nearly every OS X release (with the possible exception of 10.1). At
by anon1385 15y ago
Apple's software quality has been markedly going down
People have said the same thing about nearly every OS X release (with the possible exception of 10.1). At least Lion doesn't erase your firewire hard drives [1], or delete your entire home folder [2] etc etc. The comparative severity of these really bad bugs can be debated, but I think in terms of general quality OS X 10.0 − 10.2 really were quite a lot worse than the more recent releases.
I don't disagree with your general point though, the Mac is obviously not their priority anymore, and hasn't been for a while.
[1] http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/news/2003/10/61031 http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/news/2003/10/61031
[2] http://macs.about.com/b/2009/10/13/snow-leopard-may-delete-user-accounts-are-you-at-risk.htm http://macs.about.com/b/2009/10/13/snow-leopard-may-delete-u...
- Lewisham 15y agoYeah, this is true. Those ones were pretty bad.
- sneak 15y agoPossible, but having gone from 8.6->Linux->10.4 myself, I think it's worth noting that 10.6, their previous release, was without question one of the most solid, stable, usable desktop OSes ever released by anyone. 10.7's instability and rough edges seem extraordinarily out of place by comparison.
- epochwolf 15y agoDid you look at the linked articles? The second one is titled: "Snow Leopard May Delete User Accounts: Are You At Risk?"
- wisty 15y agoIt's nothing to do with how the Mac ranks in Apple's priorities. Apple security has been a joke, compared to Windows, for a very long time.