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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Gassee joins the fray
Date: 20 Jan 2015 15:43:41 GMT
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On 2015-01-20, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2015.01.19 19:01 , Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2015-01-19, Neill Massello <nmassello@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> on Apple's software disarray.
>>>
>>> <http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/01/18/apple-software-quality-questions/>
>>
>> The fact that there are bugs is not evidence of a downward trend in
>> quality. Logic fail.
>
> It may be convenient that there is no public quantifying of it - that 
> does not mean the opinions of the various developer/bloggers is wrong.

"Look, I found another bug" is not evidence of a downward trend in
quality, no matter how many times you repeat it Alan.

> What is true is that Apple's R&D has ballooned.  [1]
>
> Feature implementations have ballooned (as has complexity).

As has happened several times in the past.

> Developers are griping - loudly.  Much more loudly than ever (while 
> acknowledging that there have always been bugs - now they are more 
> prevalent and getting in the way more often.

So far nobody has shown a trend. They all, like you, say "things weren't
this bad before" without a shred of evidence showing that to be the
case. Selective memory doesn't equate to evidence of a downward trend.

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