Good call on waiting IMO. I couldn’t wait to get the 14" MBP (my last machine wasn't cutting it for work) but man has Monterey been a thorn in my side. The hardware is close to perfect (screen blooms a bit, it's docked most of the time anyway) but the software is utter trash, feels like a beta. Disgusting negligence on Apple's part and their support has no idea what's going on
Yeah, some recent ones haven't been great, but Apple outdid themselves with Monterey. It's the worst Mac OS yet. It's like they're testing the market to see how shoddy of an OS they can get away with shipping
I haven't really paid attention to be honest to Apple's customer satisfaction ratings. It's very rare I call any company's customer service, and Apple is no exception here. Most of the time I'm able to fix whatever problems I'm having. Whenever I reach out by phone, email, or these forums is for mainly for 3 reasons.
Also depends on the person's setup, what they use the computer for, what else they use with the computer (hardware /software) etc. I personally haven't had any kind problems with Monterey that would make me want to downgrade to date. However, I've encountered people here, and elsewhere that have had more pressing issues of various types.
Yep, update wiped out all my printers. Wtf are Apple doing with these bug fixes? Why would a bluetooth fix wipe out all my saved printer profiles? Their software QA & testing is truly appaling these days...
Well, what is not being used can’t be shown…
I, too, have none of these problems. No lost printer, either.
Stopping and starting all potentially affected processes in a graceful manner can be dangerous and monumentally difficult to test. Why bother when a simple restart will do all that is needed?
People who are still on Catalina, say it's much better now, than when it came out. Big Sur broke Zoom, and that's a feature I use to help with my low vision. It wouldn't remember the magnification setting if I were to zoom in and out without restarting, or logging out / in again with my user first then it would zoom in the correct magnification one time. Beyond that, I'd have to zoom in again manually to the desired magnification. Monterey fixed that for me. The only other glitch I've had, which also started in Big Sur, is Blu-ray Discs no longer have an icon. They're a blank square with the volume name. Not a show stopper, but annoying cosmetically. Catalina was the last version that worked correctly in. The only other short lived problem I had was after the upgrade: Time Machine ran really slow, however that's sorted itself out and it's back to normal now. Beyond that Monterey has been for the most part a good experience for me. It even installed and ran relatively problem free on my Late 2013, 13" MBP with open core legacy patcher. I just decided to take it off and put Mojave back on that machine so I could have at least ONE machine that can run the occasional 32-bit app natively without a VM.
Oh, now that you say it: Do you know if the memory leak have been resolved? I guess it’s still early to know.
How would a two year cycle solve anything? Software development has an iterative life cycle and this would just delay or stretch things out every two years instead. Do you think Apple would catch all these bugs themselves? A majority of these bugs are found when it's released and hits a wider audience. Apparently they aren't being found during internal testing or during the developer and public betas, which has a much smaller user base.
Apple set themselves up for it. Apple was the one that set the yearly “new” OS cadence (remember how Jobs frequently mocked Windows Vista/Longhorn).
Spot on, I knew I'd be an early adopter with the Apple silicon Mac, but here's my least favorite Monterey bug: when I plug my MacBook Pro into one external monitor via USB-C, charge it via MagSafe, and connect an Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. That's not a complex or unusual setup, right? But the Mac kernel panics when waking from sleep at least 1/3 of the time. Wiping out everything I'm doing across my personal and work user account. Bug has been around since February 2021. Nothing from Apple about it. Apple support with my $3-400 AppleCare on my $3600 laptop is utterly useless to resolve it other than as a time sink. I've sent countless crash reports, all into the void - no response of any sort. To trick my computer into not kernel panicking on wake, I have to be careful to wake it by opening the lid and not (god forbid) pressing a button on the keyboard. What a joke. Monterey blows.
Agreed. Awful how everything is moving towards short attention span immediate gratification with no substance behind it. I feel like I'm being very "old man yells at clouds" right now but I'm not even that old, this software is just a joke. Who could be proud of this trash? And who's left for me to overspend with on actual quality technology if Apple will be serving up junk in the future?
The two year cycle can give the team a breathing room to focus on optimizing and fixing bugs. Right now, they have to come up with new features on a yearly basis so Craig can show it every year in WWDC. Maybe it’s time to rethink the priorities. The dog and pony show can only go so far when the actual delivery is missing the pieces.
Physical location shouldn’t be a big issue for software development. Many many big software/apps/games from US/western companies are actually outsourced to coding farms in China/India.
