Apple’s declining software quality
Apple has been declining since about 2011 not only in software quality, but also in hardware quality, in innovating hardware, and in innovating software.<p>When I got my first Mac, it had Mac OS X Tiger on it, and everything about it really felt like it had the user in mind. These days everything about using it feels like it has shareholders in mind. The features being added seem like the kind of things you&#x27;d have executives brainstorming up in a committee, and then demanding that engineers implement.<p>It&#x27;s a shame. It no longer does The Right Thing™ by default, and there are more hardware and software bugs than I can ever remember in an Apple product. I&#x27;ve listed them before but here&#x27;s a short list again:<p>- This mid-2013 Mac Pro wakes up every few hours at night, even though I have disabled every &quot;wake from sleep&quot; setting that exists in OS X<p>- My mid-2013 MBP has, several times this week, turned on while closed, and continued as if it was opened (playing YouTube videos or whatever else it be doing), only shutting back off after about 120 seconds or so<p>- Every time I turn this Mac Pro on, it doesn&#x27;t recognize the wired Apple keyboard that&#x27;s plugged into the Apple Cinema Display, and says it&#x27;s looking for a bluetooth keyboard, until I unplug and replug the keyboard in at least 3 or 4 times<p>- My MBP once emitted a (very) loud buzzing sound from its speakers, for absolutely no reason, that lasted about 3 or 4 seconds, startling everyone nearby, when no sound-based programs were running<p>- Yesterday I tried syncing my iPhone to remove about 200 songs, and iTunes said it would remove them, and then &quot;did&quot; remove them, but they were still there on the device, and iTunes once again showed them being present; it took a full iPhone reset to clear them off.