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Is Apple experiencing a problematic decline in software quality?

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Re: Is Apple experiencing a problematic decline in software quality?

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My iPhone 6+ has shown more bugs in 2 weeks than the three iPhones I had prior to that (the original, 3G, and 4). Has hard locked at least half a dozen times, particularly when receiving calls.

I've had 6+ since release and I can honestly say I've not had a single problem with it. I am heavy user and iOS developer myself. So yeah ... no idea how you get so many supposed issues.

Re: Is Apple experiencing a problematic decline in software quality?

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My iPhone 6+ has shown more bugs in 2 weeks than the three iPhones I had prior to that (the original, 3G, and 4). Has hard locked at least half a dozen times, particularly when receiving calls.

I started having similar issues with my iPhone 4S after upgrading to iOS 7. It's better now, but I'm definitely holding off on going up to iOS 8.

Re: Is Apple experiencing a problematic decline in software quality?

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post #21
post #12

My iPhone 6+ has shown more bugs in 2 weeks than the three iPhones I had prior to that (the original, 3G, and 4). Has hard locked at least half a dozen times, particularly when receiving calls.

I've had 6+ since release and I can honestly say I've not had a single problem with it. I am heavy user and iOS developer myself. So yeah ... no idea how you get so many supposed issues.

Extensive use of hotspot function + frequent use in marginal signal conditions, I'd guess. I don't know why my screen rotate gets wonky though.

Re: Is Apple experiencing a problematic decline in software quality?

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post #12

My iPhone 6+ has shown more bugs in 2 weeks than the three iPhones I had prior to that (the original, 3G, and 4). Has hard locked at least half a dozen times, particularly when receiving calls.

Similarly, Safari frequently locks up or crashes on my iPad -- behavior that started with 8.0.0 and has continued through 8.0.2. I rarely remember this happening in the past.

Re: Is Apple experiencing a problematic decline in software quality?

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Apple's OSX design work seems stagnant as well. I find Gnome since version 3.12 (yes Gnome) looks better than Yosemite. I use Yosemite at work every day and find it's a step down from Mavericks. Most of the improvements seem to be to apps I never use (Maps, Safari). The new dark top bar is embarrassingly ugly compared to Gnome dark theme. The icons look childish and half-baked. Gnome's design in minimal, clean, and f…

that is a matter of opinion - I find gnome to be incredibly ugly and unpolished. Large margins, padding issues, often badly rendered fonts (fuzzy, weird aliasing) just to name the few.

When was the last time you used it? Things have vastly improved recently.

> often badly rendered fonts (fuzzy, weird aliasing)

Gnome-tweak-tools and the infinality package makes fonts and aliasing comparable to OSX. As with most Linux things, it requires a bit of tweaking. Mostly due to politics and FOSS, as is the case with the fonts.

Newer Gnome apps have clean padding and margins.

Re: Is Apple experiencing a problematic decline in software quality?

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You took the word out of my mouth! It is by far and it is also losing some of its legendary attention to detail.

I've noticed the amount of patches going up as well as the stability of software go a little bit down. But that's not all, most major unix tools in Mac OS X are 2 to 3 years outdated and Safari is a bug nest.

To bring some balance to my criticism I fell that innovation at Apple has not decreased but the quality of products has.

Re: Is Apple experiencing a problematic decline in software quality?

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The latest reports on personal data leaking onto removable devices like usb drives are quite worrying too:

http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2jbfgp/osx_appears_t... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8450848

(PS: Had to paste these links into Notes.app after copying the urls from mobile safari's share sheet, and then copy from there to paste here because mobile safari won't allow paste in text fields from its own share sheet in ios8... How's that for QA)

Re: Is Apple experiencing a problematic decline in software quality?

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Wait - this supposes they had quality to start with. Not in my experience, and I have been using their offerings since almost the beginning.

I think the difference is that people are finally feeling the confidence to state the obvious - why is the software so sucky?

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