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Well, judging by the number of iMessages that arrive in a correct order on my iPhone/Mac and their inability to make iTunes Match stable, it's hard to believe t
by danieldk 13y ago
Well, judging by the number of iMessages that arrive in a correct order on my iPhone/Mac and their inability to make iTunes Match stable, it's hard to believe that iCloud will be a success in the end.
Under Jobs Apple made stellar hardware and good-enough software.
- potatolicious 13y agoEhh, I think Apple's software is pretty good - note that this is speaking as someone who writes iOS apps for a living. Where they fail is web services. Apple cannot engineer a decent web service to save their sorry lives. The Cocoa API is pretty well thought out, generally well-documented, and pretty well-engineered. Then you get into things where you have to talk to Apple via a network. StoreKit? [shudder]. iCloud? [terrified scream]. iMessage? Oh lord.
- danieldk 13y agoThe Cocoa API is pretty well thought out, generally well-documented, and pretty well-engineered. I agree, their APIs are generally very nice. But the last few releases of OS X haven't been great. Multi-monitor support will finally be fixed in 10.9, after having been broken in 10.7 and 10.8. Also, recent releases have become very slow. A 2009 Mac Mini running 10.8 is unbearably slow, while the same machine is on 10.6 is almost as fast as a recent machine machine with a SSD on 10.8.
- scholia 13y agoApple didn't invent Cocoa, it was bought in with NextStep to replace Apple's failing Copland development. And along with NextStep, Apple got its new iCEO, its new head of hardware, and its new head of software ;-)