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I would agree with this. I’ve had numerous problems with my Apple mobile devices dealing primarily with poor application programming.
I’m including Swordmaker on this, since he’s sort of our resident Apple geek. Any opinion on this, sword?
iOS 8 is horrible on older iPads and iPhones.
Apple’s software has always been crapware; a half to full step above down and out malware. They go all out producing flashy, good, but overpriced hardware but it seems that they throw a bunch of chimps into a room and a few bunches of bananas to hack out their software.
This might be the reason Apple stock is falling today.
Really falling.
This is just FUD from Apple haters!!!
-the FR iCult
And, iCloud integration makes it all worse. Purchased content sometimes disappears into the Cloud, sometimes it doesn't. Right now, my purchased copy of Zero Dark Thirty exists on my iPad - and nowhere else. Not in iTunes, not in my backup folders, not in the Cloud, and not as an available download.
There was a time, around Snow Leopard 10.6.8, where everything about my network and my various clients "just worked". This is no longer true, and that's a shame.
The user interface over the OS X Public Beta to Yosemite time period has not had a consistent design philosophy - from Aqua to brushed aluminum to translucent to 3D to the current kinda brutal, flat 10.10 icons - it's hard to see a guiding hand in all of that.
I too am outraged by this incompetence and am stomping my iPad to bits as we speak. I have had way too many hassles from those Cupertino idiots//////
Best I can tell, the ChiComs are sabotaging the software at the mega-humongous Apple assembly. They are plotting to strip all they can and put out much better phones and tablets via LENOVO
I don't know who all these people are with all these issues?
Next time you run into someone with an iPhone or iPad. Ask them if they are having any issues with the latest update.
Being a longtime and strong Apple supporter, I told a friend
that eventually when Joy dies Apple will die as a strong product
line shortly thereafter.
Now that Joy is gone, it does look to me that Apple is slipping.
Just my opinion....
Well, in all fairness to Apple, this is a problem of all software companies right now. Both real management skills and real technical skills are sorely lacking throughout the industry. People that work at Apple work at Google, or Yahoo, or Microsoft, or Oracle, etc. Same people, different companies. They move about quit often.
I’m fighting with File Vault on a brand new laptop right now.
Right out of the box, basic set-up... Encryption just stopped. Had to diskutil cs delete to pull the partition and am re-installing 10.10 from a usb stick.
None of the Mac forum threads or FAQ’s were a help. They’ve known this was an issue since at least September 2014.
No way! Not according to the Appleheads on this forum.
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I haven’t read the full thread so I don’t know if this ground has been covered yet but...
I used Bento for a number of years as by CRM for my business. Apple stopped supporting it. No replacement. No better functionality. Gone. I had to go elsewhere.
I used Pages for my newsletters. The new iteration of Pages doesn’t include features I used regularly (like linking text boxes) because they want the experience to be the same on desktop and iOS device. Screw that. I want my functionality back. If you want to make the experience seamless, bring iOS up, don’t dumb down my main computer!
I have had to recently do a factory restore on both my iPad and iPhone. I have had both since their inceptions and they were full of business information. To fix the problem I was having, I couldn’t restore from old backup... had to set up as new. Lost information despite my diligence (not to mention the place I was in games). The best part is that some problems seem fixed... but not all.
I could go on but will stop there. Apple is in a spiral with their software and they are making stupid decisions.
What nosedive? Do you see a nosedive? I don't see a nosedive.
OK, so some guy in Salt Lake City had his iPad crash. And some iPhone 5 user in Tallahassee, Florida had to reload his iOS a couple of times.
When you put a billion devices out there, you are bound to have some placements go badly. And even if every device worked perfectly, you are still going to have a few attention-seeking cranks come out of the woodwork to tell us about their "bad experience."
Mercedes-Benz makes a pretty solid luxury vehicle but I bet there are some Mercedes owners who bitch and moan about this and that.
But getting back to the article, this Marco Arvent, "respected developer" and all, does not appear to have anything substantive to back up these very vague claims.