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The modern Apple feels like their hardware teams way outperforming the software teams.
by toddmorey 1y ago
The modern Apple feels like their hardware teams way outperforming the software teams.
- alexanderson 1y agoApple has always been a hardware company first - think of how they sell consumers computers with the OS for free, while Microsoft primarily just sells the OS (when comparing the consumer business; I don’t want to get into all the other stuff Microsoft does). Now that they own the SoC design pipeline, they’re really able to flex these muscles.
- Hamuko 1y agoNot really. Back in the day you wouldn't buy a MacBook because it was powerful. Most likely it had a very shitty Intel CPU with not a lot of cores and with thermal challenges, and the reason you bought it was because macOS.
- alt227 1y ago> very shitty Intel CPU with not a lot of cores and with thermal challenges Very often the intel chips in macbooks were stellar, they were just seriously inhibited by Apples terrible cooling designs and so were permanently throttled. They could never provide decent cooling for the chips coupled with their desire to make paper thin devices.
- scrlk 1y agoThey made things even worse with fan curves tuned for silence until the CPU was practically at TjMax.
- kllrnohj 1y ago> They could never provide decent cooling for the chips coupled with their desire to make paper thin devices. Curiously they managed to figure this out exactly when it became their silicon instead (M1 MacBook Pros were notably thicker and with more cooling capacity than the outgoing Intel ones)
- alt227 1y agoI still believe they purposefully throttled the last gen of intel Macs just to make people have bad memories of them.
- bzzzt 1y agoI presume they were just playing it safe to not let the M1 migration flop. If you're dragging your users through a big migration the last thing you need is complaints about the new hardware...
- chasil 1y agoAnd in many decades past, OpenStep was slowly moving its GUI from Next hardware to software sales on various UNIX platforms and Windows NT. And this would eventually evolve into MacOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep
- qwertytyyuu 1y agonot just mac os, also the decent keyboard and actually good display, guarenteed.
- a96 1y agoDisplays only got usable after Retina. Which is still very recent.
- fnord123 1y agoThe intel laptops also grounded into the user. I still can't believe they didn't have a recall to sort that out.
- hinkley 1y agoThe tingling just lets you know you're alive.
- seec 1y agoApple is extremely dumb with power management and power supply. That's because they pretended to innovate all the way back at the start and want to pretend, they still have the expertise. But I have had 2 iMac power supply die one me, the grounding problem on a MBP and a major annoyance with power noise leaking from a Mac Mini (makes for some nasty audio output, hilarious when you consider they supposedly target creative who clearly need good audio output). You always find people raving about Apple's engineering prowess but my experience is that it's mostly a smoke show, they make things look good, miniaturise/oversimplify beyond what is reasonable and you often end up with major hardware flaws that are just a pain to deal with. They always managed to have good performance and a premium feeling package but I don't think their engineering tradeoffs are actually very good most of the time. As far as I can tell, the new Mac Mini design still has grounding issues, and you will get humming issues, which is beyond stupid for a product of that caliber. At this point I don't care about having the power supply inside the dam box, just use a brick if you must to prevent that sort of problem. This is particularly infuriating since they made the iMac PSU external, which is beyond stupid for an AiO. But common sense left Apple a long time ago and now they just chase specs benchmarks and fashionnable UIs above everything.
- hamdingers 1y agoNope, many bought it in spite of macOS because it was a durable laptop with an excellent screen, good keyboard, and (afaik still) the only trackpad that didn't suck.
- NetMageSCW 1y agoI think “many” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
- a96 1y agoThere are dozens of us!
- leptons 1y ago>the reason you bought it was because macOS. That is probably the least of reasons why people buy Apple - to many it's just a status symbol, and the OS is a secondary consideration.
- NetMageSCW 1y agoYou have funny ideas about why people spend money on laptops.
- leptons 1y agoYou don't have to take my word for it, it's been talked about for many years. https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+products+as+status+symbol https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+products+as+status+sym...
- alt227 1y agoApple has always been a software first company, and they only sell the hardware as a vehicle to their software. They regularly say this themselves and have always called themselves a software company. Compare their hardware revenues with that of the app store and icloud subscriptions, you will see where they make most of their money. EDIT: I seem to be getting downvoted, so I will just leave this here for people to see I am not lying: https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-apple-is-not-a-hardware-company-2013-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-apple-is-not-a-hard...
- RossBencina 1y agoApple has been calling themselves a consumer electronics company since at least 2006.
- alt227 1y ago"Apple views itself as a software company" - Steve Jobs (2007) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEeyaAUCyZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEeyaAUCyZs
- RossBencina 1y agoSteve Jobs may have said that, but in 2006 I quite by accident ran into some mid-level Apple people at a guest house breakfast. I expressed my dismay at the poor manufacturing quality of my new Mac Book compared to my previous T-series IBM Think Pads. The Apple people politely explained that Apple was a consumer electronics company[1] and I should not expect business-grade products from Apple. [1] They used that exact term, and it has stuck with me ever since.
- jsnell 1y agoSure, let's compare. Apple's product revenue in this fiscal year has been $233B, with a gross margin of $86B. Their services revenue is $80B with $60B gross margin.
- justincormack 1y ago
- ViktorRay 1y agoSteve Jobs himself said that Apple sees itself as a software company https://youtu.be/dEeyaAUCyZs https://youtu.be/dEeyaAUCyZs The above link is a video where he mentions that. It is true that Apple’s major software products like iOS and MacOS are only available on Apple’s own hardware. But the Steve Jobs justification for this (which he said in a different interview I can’t find right now so I will paraphrase) is that he felt Apple made the best hardware and software in the world so he wanted Apple’s customers to experience the best software on the best hardware possible which he felt only Apple could provide. (I wish I could find the exact quote.) Anyway according to Steve Jobs Apple is a software first company.
- hinkley 1y agoBut Steve also clearly believed in Alan Kay's old aphorism: If you care about software you have to make your own hardware. I'll allow that perhaps Apple considers hardware a means to an end. But what an end.
- fidotron 1y agoWhat I would do for Snow Leopard on the M class hardware.
- RossBencina 1y agoYou could run it in an emulator.
- asimovDev 1y agodo you mean literally 10.6 on AS or do you mean something as good as it was
- fidotron 1y agoSomething that good. It was coherent, (relatively) bug free, and lacked the idiot level iOSification and nagging that is creeping in all over MacOS today. I haven't had to restart Finder until recently, but now even that has trouble with things like network drives. I'm positive there are many internals today that are far better than in Snow Leopard, but it's outweighed by user visible problems. It shouldn't surprise you I think that Android Jelly Bean was the best phone OS ever made as well, and they went completely in the wrong direction after that.
- astrange 1y agoIt was very easy to lose data in Snow Leopard because they hadn't introduced the document autosave system yet. That was the next version.
- fidotron 1y agoYou mean it only did things you told it to do? That's a feature. Programs absolutely could have much more controllable auto save before for when it made sense.
- astrange 1y ago"I lose work when the power goes out" is not a feature. Neither is "I can't apply security updates because I can't restart". Speaking of security it didn't have app sandboxing either.
- geodel 1y agoWell besides software that runs in data centers/ cloud most other software is turning to crap. And people who think this crap is fine have now reached to position of responsibility at lot of companies. So things would go only worse from here.
- sho_hn 1y agoExcept community-developed open source software, which (slowly, perhaps) keeps getting better and has high resistance to enshittification.
- Noaidi 1y agoThis right here is moving me back to GrapheneOS and Linux. I was lucky enough to be able to uninstall Liquid glAss before the embargo. I will miss the power efficiency of my M1, but the trade off keep looking better and better. being poor, I need to sell my Macbook to get money to pay of my 16e, then sell the 16e and use that money to but a Pixel 9, then probably a but a Thinkpad Carbon X1. Just saying all that to show you the lengths I am going through to boycott/battle the enshitification.
- TheAtomic 1y agoYup. And the marketing department is ahead of both of them.
- z3ratul163071 1y agoi was about to write exactly that.
- linguae 1y agoThis is not the first time this has happened in Apple’s history. The transition from the 68k architecture to the PowerPC brought major performance improvements, but Apple’s software didn’t take full advantage of it. If I remember correctly, even after the PowerPC switch, core elements of the classic Mac OS still ran in emulation as late as Mac OS 9. Additionally, the classic Mac OS lacked protected memory and preemptive multitasking, leading to relatively frequent crashes. Taligent and Copland were attempts to address these issues, but they both faced development hell, culminating with the purchase of NeXT and the development of Mac OS X. But by the time Mac OS X was released, PowerPC was becoming less competitive than the x86, culminating with the Intel switch in 2006. At this point it was Apple’s software that distinguished Macs from the competition, which remained the case until the M1 Macs were released five years ago.
- mikepurvis 1y agoSixteen years ago, John Gruber wrote: > Hardware and software both matter, and Apple’s history shows that there’s a good argument to be made for developing integrated hardware and software. But if you asked me which matters more, I wouldn’t hesitate to say software. All things considered I’d much prefer a PC running Mac OS X to a Mac running Windows. https://daringfireball.net/2009/11/the_os_opportunity https://daringfireball.net/2009/11/the_os_opportunity At the time I'd only been a Mac user for a few years and I would have strongly agreed. But definitely things have shifted— I've been back on Windows/WSL for a number of years, and it's software quality/compatibility issues that are a lot of what keeps me from trying another Mac. Certainly I'm far more tempted by the hardware experience than I am the software, and it's not even really close.
- tantalor 1y agoBeen like that since 1977
- mcv 1y agoI want this hardware available for other systems.
- makeitdouble 1y agoThat won't happen for now: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/report-apple-is-saving-billions-on-chips-thanks-to-unique-deal-with-tsmc/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/report-apple-is-savi... Apple's chip engineering is top tier, but money also buys them a lot of advance.
- ksec 1y agoModern ARM C1 Ultra Core is only 10% slower than M5, likely even less when you factor in system level cache and memory. So the gap isn't as wide as most people think it is.
- hamdingers 1y agoWhat laptops is that chip featured in?
- mcv 1y agoThat sounds awesome. Can we get laptops with that thing? We should be getting rid of the power hungry x86 stuff.
- ksec 1y agoMediatek and Nvidia should have something out soon.
- samwillis 1y agoSoftware is very easy to bloat, expand scope, and grow to do more than really needed, or just to release apps that are then forgotten about. Hardware is naturally limited in scope due to manufacturing costs, and doesn't "grow" in the same way. You replace features and components rather than constantly add to them. Apple needs someone to come in and aggressively cut scope in the software, removing features and products that are not needed. Pair it down to something manageable and sustainable.
- pxc 1y ago> pare down products and features macOS has way too many products but far too few features. In terms of feature-completeness, it's already crippled. What OS features can macOS afford to lose?
- coredog64 1y agoI would say it's less about losing and more about focus. Identify the lines of business you don't want to be in and sell those features to a third party who can then bundle them for $1/$10/$20. A $2T company just doesn't care, but I would bet that those excised features would be good enough for a smaller software house. (I have the same complaint about AWS, where a bunch of services are in KTLO and would be better served by not being inside AWS)
- panick21_ 1y agoIf you think hardware can't bloat, I suggest you look into the history of Intels attempt to replace x86. Or the VAX. Not to mention tons of minicomputer companies who built ever more complex minis. And not to mention the supercomputer startup bubble.
- 6SixTy 1y agomacOS has like no features already, and they keep removing more.
- foofoo12 1y agoIt must be observed that the Apple enterprise is, above all else, a purveyor of fine physical contrivances and apparatus. Furthermore, they do also engage in the traffic and sale of digital programmes wrought by the hands of other, independent artisans.
- elicash 1y agoFor Vision Pro, software team has been impressive. And arguably outperformed the hardware team. But this is the exception.
- thomascgalvin 1y ago> The modern Apple feels like their hardware teams way outperforming the software teams. There aren't a lot of tangible gains left to be made by the software teams. The OS is fine, the office suite is fine, the entertainment apps are fine. If "performance" is shoving AI crap into software that was already doing what I wanted it to do, I'd rather the devs take a vacation.
- butlike 1y agoThere were a few things on that page that made me excited for the future of where computing is going, but I do think we're going to hit a "lull" in terms of exciting new features until some of the really futuristic stuff comes to pass. Who knows, maybe the era of "exciting computing" is over, and iteration will be a more pleasant and subtle gradient curve of improvements, over the earth-shattering announcements of yore (such as the advent of popular cellular phones).
- scbzzzzz 1y agoTrue. I would like to hijack this thread and wante d to discuss what we want for software that is not present. For me. All i can think of is ondevice , al/ml ( photo editing, video editing etc ) and not the ones the current companies are trying hard shove down our throats. May be steve is true. We don't know what we want until some one shows it .
- throw_this_one 1y agoTheir software is literally falling apart. ios26 was the biggest trash ive ever experienced from a company this big
- vuggamie 1y agoI'm old enough to remember Windows CE phones crashing during phone calls.
- pivo 1y agoHow so? Seriously asking because it works fine for me.
- throw_this_one 1y agoBuggy. Random slowness in the UI going well below 120hz. Massive battery drain for no reason. UI elements just looking out of place, big print, random places. The UI itself is supposed to be intense to render to some degree. That's crazy because most of the time it looks like an Android skin from 2012. And on top of this all -- absolutely nobody asked for this. No one asked for some silly new UI that is transparent or whateveer.
- lijok 1y agoSounds like an experience problem
- eloisant 1y agoApple have always been a hardware company, like Google have always been a software company even if they're doing hardware too now.
- torben-friis 1y agoThere are talks of the hardware head replacing Cook. Hopefully that will bring whatever they’re doing right to other teams.
- butlike 1y agoI really liked the energy of the guy who announced the iPhone Air this past WWDC or whatever it's called now. John Ternus. Hopefully he makes it there (CEO) one day; I'd like to see it.
- thewebguyd 1y agoTernus is who the parent was referring to, he's SVP of hardware engineering and suspected to be Cook's successor.
- markus_zhang 1y agoI pretty much see the Macbook as some fancy toys with mediocre software. Maybe the kernel is solid but other software are very meh, even comparing to Windows. But I'm definitely biased as a Windows/Linux user, and my hobby is system programming so naturally a Linux box is more suitable. Biggest grief with MacOS software: - Finder is very mediocre comparing to even File explorer in Windows - Scrollbar and other UI issues Unfortunately I don't think Asahi is going to catch up, and Macbook is so expensive, so I'll probably keep buying second hand Dell/Lenovo laptop and dump a Linux on top of it.
- lou1306 1y agoWhat makes Mac great is/was the ecosystem of 3rd party tools with great UI and features. Apple used to be good enough at writing basic 1st-party apps that would mostly just disappear into the background and let you do your thing, but they are getting increasingly "louder" which... may become a problem. I still agree that second hand Thinkpads are ridiculously better in terms of price/quality ratio, and also more environmentally sustainable.
- markus_zhang 1y agoI have to admit, every time I looked into screenshots of earlier Macs, like the 68K and PPC ones, I felt I loved the UI and such. I even bought a PPC laptop (I think it's a maxed out iBook with 1.5GB of RAM) to tinker with PPC assembly. But I could be wrong. Maybe the earlier Macs didn't have great software either -- but at least the UI is better.
- prewett 1y agoHaving lived through those days... well, it was good for the time, mostly. MacOS was definitely better than Windows 3.11, and a lot more whimsical, both the OS and Mac software in general, which I miss. The featureset, though, was limited. Managing extensions was clunky, and until MacOS 10, applications had a fixed amount of RAM they could use, which could be set by the user, but which was allocated at program start. It was also shared memory, like Windows 3.11 and to some extent Windows 95/98, so one program could, and routinely did, take down the whole OS. With Windows NT (not much adopted by consumers, to be fair), this did not happen. Windows NT and 2000 were definitely better than MacOS, arguably even UI-wise. I do miss window shading from MacOS 8 or 9, though. I think a whimsical skin for MacOS would be nice, too. The system error bomb icon was classic, the sad-Mac boot-failure icon was at least consolation. Now everything is cold and professional, but at least it stays out of my way and looks decent.
- nabla9 1y agoDoing good job is rewarded. Apple's Hardware Chief, John Ternus, seems to be next in line for succession to Tim Cook's position.
- utf_8x 1y agoInteresting, I thought the next in line was Craig Federighi
- JKCalhoun 1y agoThere has to be a whole different mindset with hardware though. Every change has to necessarily be more considered, cross-checked. And I don't say this in any way to disparage software engineers (hold up hand) but I suspect there's a discipline in hardware design that is ... less rigidly adhered to in software design. (And a software update containing a revert, though undesirable, is always a solution.)
- wslh 1y agoI've been thinking whether it could be a reasonable move for Apple to launch a cheaper secondary brand, one that offers devices capable of running Linux or Windows to reach a broader market without cannibalizing its own.
- dawnerd 1y agoApple already sells pretty competitively priced computers. The base Mac mini for example. For most people that’s already overkill.
- SCdF 1y agoI don't think it's the modern Apple, I think that's just Apple. I remember using iTunes when fixing the name of an album was a modal blocking function that had to write to each and every MP3, one by one, in the slowest write I have ever experienced in updating file metadata. Give me a magnetised needle and a steady hand and I could have done it faster. A long time ago they had some pretty cool design guides, and the visual design has often been nice, but other than that I don't think their software has been notable for its quality.
- robenkleene 1y agoApple makes Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro, Notes, Calendar, Contacts, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Freeform, just from a "quality" standpoint, I'd rank any of those applications as competitive for the "highest quality" app in their category (an admittedly difficult thing to measure). In aggregate, those applications would make Apple the most effective company in the world at making high-quality GUI applications. Curious if I'm missing something though, is there another entity with a stronger suite than that? Or some other angle to look at this? (E.g., it seems silly to me to use an MP3 metadata example when you're talking about the same company that makes Logic Pro.)
- bigyabai 1y agoDo you regularly use the alternatives to these programs? Admittedly I'm not cut out to judge the office suite, but the consensus in the music world seems to be that Logic Pro is awful. It lacks support for lots of plugins and hardware, and costs loads for what is essentially a weaker value prop than Bitwig or Ableton Live. Most bedroom musicians are using Garageband or other cheap DAWs like Live Lite, and the professional studios are all bought into Pro Tools or Audition. Don't even get me started on the number of pros I see willingly use Xcode... It's not exactly clear to me what niche Apple occupies in this market. It doesn't feel like "native Mac UI" is a must-have feature for DAWs or IDEs alike, but maybe that's just my perspective.
- robenkleene 1y agoYes, I use Ableton Live every day. > It lacks support for lots of plugins and hardware, and costs loads for what is essentially a weaker value prop than Bitwig or Ableton Live. This is an obviously silly statement, not only is Logic Pro competitively priced ($200, relative to $100-$400 for Bitwig, $99-$750 for Live), but those applications obviously have different focuses than Logic Pro (sound design and electronic music, versus the more general-purpose and recording focus of Logic Pro, also you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't think Logic Pro comes with the best suite of stock plugins of any DAW, so the value prop angle is a particularly odd argument to make [i.e., Logic Pro is pretty obviously under priced]). But all this isn't that important because many of these applications are great. DAWs are one of the most competitive software categories around and there are several applications folks will vehemently defend as the best and Logic Pro is unequivocally one of them. > Most bedroom musicians are using Garageband or other cheap DAWs like Live Lite, and the professional studios are all bought into Pro Tools or Audition. This is old, but curious if you have a better source for your statement https://blog.robenkleene.com/2019/06/10/2015-digital-audio-workstation-market-share/ https://blog.robenkleene.com/2019/06/10/2015-digital-audio-w... Found a more recent survey https://www.production-expert.com/production-expert-1/2024-daw-user-survey-the-results https://www.production-expert.com/production-expert-1/2024-d... > We can see that Pro Tools for music is the most popular choice, with Logic for music second and Pro Tools for post coming third. Note that I'd say Logic Pro's popularity is actually particularly notable since it's not crossplatform, so the addressable market is far smaller than the other big players. It's phenomenal popular software, both in terms of raw popularity and fans who rave about it. E.g., note the contrast in how people talk about Pro Tools vs. Logic Pro. Logic Pro has some of the happiest users around, but Pro Tools customers talk like they feel like their hostages to the software. That difference is where the quality argument comes in.
- 7e 1y agoApple relies heavily on H1-B slave labor. They don’t pay their software teams enough to be competitive and they run with only about a third of the headcount they need to polish the software. Thus, they have mediocre talent and not enough of it. Penny-wise, pound foolish.
- whitehexagon 1y agoI dunno, didnt they already crack the 400GB/s memory bandwidth some years ago? This seems like just another small bump to handle latest OS effects sludge. Now the M1 range, that really was an impressive 'outperform' moment of engineering for them, but otherwise this is just a clock-work MBA driven trickle of slightly better over-hyped future eWaste. To outperform during this crisis, hardware engineers worth their salt need to designing long lived boxes with internals that can be easily repaired or upgraded. "yeah but the RAM connections are fiddly" Great, now that sounds like a challenge worth solving. But you are right about the software. Installing Asahi makes me feel like I own my compter again.
- astroflection 1y agohttps://asahilinux.org/ https://asahilinux.org/ "Linux on Apple Silicon: Asahi Linux aims to bring you a polished Linux® experience on Apple Silicon Macs." Why the "®" after Linux? I think this is the first time I've seen this.
- utf_8x 1y agoThe Linux "brand" is trademarked by Linus Torvalds, presumably to stop things like "Microsoft® Linux®" from happening...
- tyrellj 1y agoThis seems to be pretty true in general. SBC companies are not competing with Raspberry Pi because their software is quite a bit behind (boot loaders, linux kernel support, etc). Particle released a really cool dev board recently, but the software is lacking. Qualcomm struggled with their new CPU launch with poor support as well. It sometimes takes a while for new Intel processor features to be supported in the toolchains, kernel, and then get used in software. Aside from that, I think of Apple as a hardware company that must write software to sell their devices, maybe this isn't true anymore but that's how I used to view them. Maintaining and updating as much software as Apple owns is no small task either.
- amelius 1y agoYes. And their consumer teams are way outperforming their business teams.
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- oofbey 1y agoIn a sense, hardware's job is easier, because the goals are more clear. Make it faster, and more power efficient. Vast amounts of complexity within those goals. But try to summarize the north-star vision for a complex software project like an OS in terms anywhere close as simply as this.
- mproud 1y agoThe hardware team has always shined, but how about one example of this: The PowerBook from the mid 1990’s were hugely successful, especially the first ones, which were notable for what we now take for granted: pushing the keyboard back allowing space for palm rests. Wikipedia says at one time Apple had captured 40% of the laptop market. All the while the ’90s roared on, Apple was languishing, looking for a modern OS.
- crazygringo 1y agoApple is a hardware company. This has always been the case. It's not just the modern Apple.
- gloosx 1y agoFrom my vast experience with MacOS, Apple is notoriously bad at the most basic software, like notes or calculator
- robenkleene 1y agoWhat's a better rich-text notes app than Apple Notes? (E.g., excluding the plain-text options like Obsidian, which are really a different beast.)
- gloosx 1y agoI don't know. I used apple notes for quite a while, several years. And I got increasingly frustrated by it's countless bugs and inconsistent or weird behaviours, especially with check lists which I use a lot. I even have a folder with tens of screencasts capturing these bugs which I want to compile and publish in a blog post one day. I ended up with my own web-based solution on top of Lexical, which I wrapped in a Tauri app, which I very much enjoy using. I don't need it to sync to other devices so all notes and images rest in a filesystem.
- robenkleene 1y agoYeah, I understand this perspective. But just once, I'd love to hear someone reply to this and say they really love something like OneNote, and list out why they think it's a "higher quality" piece of software than Apple Notes. Personally, while I observe a lot of bugs in Apple's software, really that's true of all the (GUI in particular) software I use. If I go across all the software I use, Apple's offerings are almost universally on the top end by the metrics I'd measure for quality compared to similar offerings (e.g., something like OneNote is directly comparable to Apple Notes, whereas a custom built notes app that doesn't sync across devices most certainly is not). Apple's apps are usually well-designed, performant, bug free (relatively speaking, there are always bugs in software, but if I put, say, OmniFocus and Reminders next to each other [two apps that have the same purpose that I use every day, Reminders overall has less bugs than OmniFocus]), and they're mostly consistent with each other. Putting all that together, the breadth of Apple's software offerings, and they're consistent high quality relative to similar offerings from other companies, makes Apple seem to me like the best company in the world today at making GUI software! Which doesn't mean they're perfect, and doesn't mean they can't do better, but is still super impressive.
- textlapse 1y agoIt does feel like Apple is firing on all cylinders for their core competencies. Software (iOS26), services (Music/Tv/Cloud/Apple Intelligence) and marketing (just keep screaming Apple Intelligence for 3 months and then scream Liquid Glass) ---- on the other hand seem like they are losing steam or very reactive. No wonder John Ternus is the widely anticipated to replace Tim Cook (and not Craig).
- RataNova 1y agoThat's been the vibe for a while now
- mrheosuper 1y agoAs a FW engineer, i can say i have been in both sides. The thing is, many time software has to do some nasty hacking just to work around hardware bug. But i've never seen hardware does the same thing. So give the software some slack.