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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Has Apple's software quality declined?
Date: 22 Dec 2014 22:50:33 GMT
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On 2014-12-22, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2014.12.22 15:12 , Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2014-12-22, Neill Massello <nmassello@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Anthony Wing Kosner has a pretty good article at Forbes about problems
>>> with Apple's recent OS releases.
>>>
>>> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2014/12/22/declining-apple-software-quality-imperils-future-growth-and-retention/>
>>
>> Where's the data to back up the assertion that quality is actually
>> declining as opposed to some blogger simply having selective / faulty
>> memory?
>
> Faulty memory?  Have you forgotten:
> 	8.0   WiFi issues.
> 	8.0.1 WiFi fix that made things much, much worse.

You're conveniently ignoring all the other major snafus that have come
and gone in the past. Or have have you forgotten all the issues that
came before those? The faulty memory has to do with forgetting all the
other bugs that have been present in all the other software updates
going all the way back to Classic Mac OS. Have you gone back and
quantified all of those, or do you contend those never happened at all? 

In order for there to be a legitimate *decline* in quality, there needs
to be an established *trend* showing that quality was substantially
*better* in the past. I've been around Apple products long enough to
recall there being various major problems with various Apple products
going pretty far back.  So again, where is the data showing that there
is an actual decline in quality as opposed to someone having selective
memory?

Absent of that, what I hear is people saying they wish these issues
wouldn't happen at all, which is a pipe dream. Shit happens. No software
is without bugs, and *most* are avoidable with enough time and money.
That's just the way it is.

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