If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter
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#2One important thing not mentioned here: Apple should make sure to keep up Safari Development. It's by far the worst browser available and the web platform is only growing.
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#3Apple's software quality has certainly slipped. I'm not sure if I'm just getting old but I find software quality in general seems to have slipped. Or is it just because there's more software around?
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#4The good news is that for once we have a precedent of Apple listening to what people actually want with the new MBP lineup. Whether they'll be able to replicate that magic with their software teams remains to be seen, but at least now it feels within the realm of possible.
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#5One important thing not mentioned here: Apple should make sure to keep up Safari Development. It's by far the worst browser available and the web platform is only growing.
Care to elaborate?
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#6I have a few issues with Apple software, but with AirPods Pro they recently added an AI-driven voice isolation mode which was an incredible change. Went from the other side barely being able to hear you when you were speaking in a noisy environment to feeling like you were in a quiet room together. Massive quality of life improvement and increased competitive moat from better software.
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#7Apple's software quality has certainly slipped. I'm not sure if I'm just getting old but I find software quality in general seems to have slipped. Or is it just because there's more software around?
I think that the slip in quality we are seeing is a result of increased complexity more than anything else.
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#8This is just a guy griping about his bugs. Apple’s software quality is by far the best among competitors (Facebook’s is better but not really an Apple competitor).
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#9Apple's software quality has certainly slipped. I'm not sure if I'm just getting old but I find software quality in general seems to have slipped. Or is it just because there's more software around?
There is probably more software written this year than existed a couple decades ago and each new app is orders of magnitude more complex.
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#10When an Apple feature doesn't work I give up on it for the remainder of the software version.
Trying to fix broken Apple bits is always time-consuming and almost always fruitless. They have trained me to believe "it just works" or it just doesn't and I am just hopeless.