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The whole Apple ecosystem is becoming a mess. It’s falling apart like a rotten card house.
Whether its iOS or MacOS, Apple customers are in a perpetual state of upgrades. These frequent but empty, patch-happy, loopy-named releases are a total nag.
Just take your time, make it feature rich, and test it good and stop bugging me or pay me to be a tester, instead of me paying for your product.
Just take your time, make it feature rich, and test it good and stop bugging me or pay me to be a tester, instead of me paying for your product.
The perpetual decline into the toilet continues as far as software quality control goes. Such a shame.
State of computing right now.
Apple: no idea what they’re doing whatsoever, mostly concerned with phones
Microsoft: flakey version upgrades that take half a day, if they work, every 6 months
Linux: 10-15 years behind everyone else
Google / ChromeOS: could be yanked from under you or radically changed at any moment as the norm for Google. Wants to
Monitor and control your entire life.
A mess....
Apple: no idea what they’re doing whatsoever, mostly concerned with phones
Microsoft: flakey version upgrades that take half a day, if they work, every 6 months
Linux: 10-15 years behind everyone else
Google / ChromeOS: could be yanked from under you or radically changed at any moment as the norm for Google. Wants to
Monitor and control your entire life.
A mess....
Not saying those examples aren't real, just that they aren't as common as the poster made it out to be.
It's definitely possible and since iOS is where the money is, I fully expect Apple to be working on this.
I'm sorry but thats just what an apologist would have you believe. ALL those bug where/are huge.. if MS or Android would have done that it would have been complete internet 'meltdown' [pun intended]..
Okay. I hadn’t heard of half of them. I suppose I’m the only person that hasn’t had those issues. I must just be lucky.
Wow, I'd been waiting to upgrade for reasons of compatibility with audio interfaces I own dragging their feet getting updates but wow.
But one would hope that after last password fiasco they will test other password dialogs too. I guess they tested only for empty passwords, nobody expected such sophisticated random password attack.
I might be wrong, but I really don't remember having to wake up every day in the late 90's or early 2000s with new security flaws and patches (except for the horrible horrible Win98).
Updates and upgrades used to be a good thing, now they should call them "new features and new issues" , the cycle doesn't seem to end.
Updates and upgrades used to be a good thing, now they should call them "new features and new issues" , the cycle doesn't seem to end.
No. Completely baseless argument and irrelevant to everyone except you.
Maybe for you, but I am sure there are others that agree with me. It's a forum full of personal opinions, it's all baseless. Yours no more important/credible than mine.
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Completely true about the opinion side of things, but as shown and documented iOS is many times worse in terms of the number of issues that has befallen it on the latest release. So by that measure its "factually" worse, that's not an opinion, bur rather a measurable metric regardless of preference.
Why are you even trying to justify it? They’re two different operating systems targeted at completely different use cases and hardware. You can’t do scientific computing on iOS nor can you have the same touch experience on Mac. Nor should you. So yes, it is baseless and yes that’s all it is, your opinion. Not fact. Irrelevant.