If you read the post I replied to, the person is saying that there are more complaints only because there are more people, and that there is no difference in Apple's performance or quality than there was in the past.
You seem to acknowledge that more people complain because there is actually more to complain about. That's the point I'm making.
Android historically never out-polished iOS until after iOS 7 when Apple started getting lazy, and then they equalized. Most people switched from Android to iOS at the iPhone 6 launch, when that difference in perceived quality and refinement wasn't as great as it was before. Android users would complain that Apple can be worse than companies dealing with Android, but they're not the ones saying that Apple's quality has gone downhill in the past three years. That may be because they didn't have an iPhone over three years ago.
You're telling me a view that aligns with mine yet you're expressing disagreement.
Maybe it's because I mentioned that suicide, which should be alarming. It was a software engineer, and he joined Apple in 2013.
I did not think I was giving you a view that completely aligned with what you had said, which is why I had replied. We both agree that there has been an actual decline in Apple quality.
I felt the point you were making was that long-time Apple users had a better understanding of the decline in Apple's quality. I am saying two things: 1) even non-Apple users are able to appreciate the decline in quality (without even switching, mind you) and 2) new users going from Android to iOS still feel they are stepping down in some ways (pre or post iOS 7) not due to design or hardware quality but because of certain software features (cloud services, namely, but also control and customization).
I think Android out did iOS in customization, control and cloud services and still does.
The decline post iOS 7 wasn't JUST that Apple's quality began to decline but that 2013 was also the year KitKat as released, and subsequently the summer after iOS 7 Google debuted Material Design, so arguably Google's software design improved rapidly after 2013. Finally, also, hardware manufacturers have begun making quality phones (not everyone, but many).
So my disagreement was only that it's not just long-time Apple users who were sensitive to the decline. An Android user who switched felt the weakness of certain software features right away and the fact that iOS had been catching up to Android in many other ways of the ensuing years.
Ultimately you're right, my post is probably completely unnecessary and what alarmed me more was connecting the suicide to Apple and its quality (or maybe corporate attitudes or morale?) and to that I just wanted to say how we don't know what exactly was going, suicide is complex and it's unfair to tie Apple and its potential in-house issues with an employee's suicide.
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