[Infowarrior] - Apple has lost the functional high ground

[Richard Forno]

( I agree to a point, but also think Apple is the "cleanest shirt in the drawer" when it comes to operating systems. --rick)

Apple has lost the functional high ground

January 4, 2015 

Apple’s hardware today is amazing — it has never been better. But the software quality has taken such a nosedive in the last few years that I’m deeply concerned for its future. I’m typing this on a computer whose existence I didn’t even think would be possible yet, but it runs an OS riddled with embarrassing bugs and fundamental regressions. Just a few years ago, we would have relentlessly made fun of Windows users for these same bugs on their inferior OS, but we can’t talk anymore.

Apple has completely lost the functional high ground. “It just works” was never completely true, but I don’t think the list of qualifiers and asterisks has ever been longer. We now need to treat Apple’s OS and application releases with the same extreme skepticism and trepidation that conservative Windows IT departments employ.

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http://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-ground