The M4 MacBook Air is one of the greatest products (and values) they've ever made/released... Why are you on an Apple forum if you seemingly hate the company? Weird behavior.
I'm on an Apple forum because I have used Apple products for since the 80s. And up until about 5 years ago, I was a happy user of such products. Then, things have just been going downhill ever since.
I'll agree that the one advancement with the m-series of chips was a great move. While it also was a bad one when it comes to the horrible support and route they chose to use for supporting things such as external GPUs. GPUs aren't just for gaming.
Nonetheless, I own 2 Apple Silicon macs, and countless Intel, PPC and more, going back to my Apple IIc.
So I've been through all of the ups and downs when it comes to Apple. I've seen it all and used most of it. And throughout all of that time, my outlook on all-Apple-parts has never looked as bad as it is now.
Apple used to
test before releasing
. That's a fundamental part of a tech company that has products like Apple produces, both hardware and software related. In recent years and especially now, Apple does not do any worthwhile testing. Sure, they may put out 18 different betas for an iOS release, however clearly that strategy is not working for them. I'd go as far as saying that their tests are about as useful as fake news. I don't believe that they are ingesting the data that they should be from testing before releasing. Instead, they just release these days. And, then just seem to go with the flow - it either works or it doesn't.
Then months later we'll get another barely tested (fake-news test?) bunch of betas that have numerous reported issues, that stay in the mix throughout the betas, into the RCs and ignored and then released once again. Just piling on the code-trash that we all are dealing with these days.
Sadly, macOS is not the "Mac OS" that most of us long time users know and love anymore.
To answer your question, I'm on this forum because I'm a mac user, an iOS and iPadOS user.
Am I not allowed to express my opinions about Apple and their declining quality?
There is no way that you can possibly defend them at this point in time compared to how Apple used to operate. There is no comparison. Apple is not the Apple most of us (used) to love, anymore. I could point out a thousand different ways that they've screwed major things up over the past few years, but am not going to waste my time for the sake of a forum.
Stock prices are all that matter to them. Until they get gutted in the markets, nothing will change and quality will continue to decline.
As others here have mentioned, something major is going to have to happen to or at Apple.
Management changes in nearly all departments to start. Then, take a very close look at each department and project managers on-down and weed out the ones that are continuing these bad trends and fire them. The company clearly has a hiring issue and has been hiring from the wrong talent pool.
So yes, I belong on this forum just as much as you do. I'm just willing to take a realistic look at the company and am not afraid to raise my hand when I see a bad egg, let alone a whole company that's filling up with even worse eggs.
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