Yes. I saw quality slipping last year around hardware and software when I dealt with a lot of different items from Apple. The perspective also depends on how y

Yes. I saw quality slipping last year around hardware and software when I dealt with a lot of different items from Apple. The perspective also depends on how you look at your devices and the timeframe of expected use. Apple equipment used to be the kinds of devices you could have in production for many years. But, they are really now much more a consumer device company and part of the device churn. If this is acceptable to you (as a user) then you probably don't care because you will just skip the next hardware revision and get the one after (timed with some sort of Apple software obsolesce incentive) and be fine. Last year around this time, I wrote this: http://mergy.org/2012/12/irecognition-i-am-no-longer-apples-target-market/ http://mergy.org/2012/12/irecognition-i-am-no-longer-apples-... But then Lloyd Chambers did a detailed piece on the decline here: http://macperformanceguide.com/AppleCoreRot-intro.html http://macperformanceguide.com/AppleCoreRot-intro.html But there are many more examples before me and others. Before the holy war kicks-in, I think it really is an expectation thing.