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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Gassee joins the fray
Date: 25 Jan 2015 02:57:06 GMT
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On 2015-01-24, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2015.01.22 11:55 , Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2015-01-22, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>> Apple needs to completely freeze new feature development and overhaul
>>> the whole system
>>
>> Nobody wants the OS to stagnate. Perhaps it surprises people like you,
>> but a whole lot of us really appreciate *new* functionality like
>> Continuity and so on, which would not exist if Apple froze all new
>
> Continuity has worked exactly 2 times since I got the iPhone 6.  Any 
> attempt to get it to work to see if it works has failed.  The sole one 
> time that it would actually have been really, really useful it failed 
> (with a helpful message to that effect).

That's not my experience at all. Nor is it my wife's experience, or any
of the family or friends I have who use it. I actually use it quite a
bit, and I don't even have an iPhone 6. I absolutely love it. And I know
I'm not an anomaly.

> So, no, don't add more features until the existing ones work. 

Disagree wholeheartedly. These things *do* work for the vast majority of
people as far as I can tell. Bring on the cutting edge features! I love
them.

> Especially where so many of these features are building blocks for other 
> features.  So if they are flawed now and not fixed soon, building upon 
> them is not going to be a successful pursuit.

Issues are being fixed at a steady pace, as far as I can tell. 

> Indeed some of those awful developers out their claiming a decline in 
> Apple s/w quality have voiced the same thing:  get the "it just works" 
> to actually work (consistently) before continuing the feature invention 
> cycles.

Like I said, everyone has an opinion. Not everyone knows what's really
going on inside Apple. And that's just fine with me.

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