Apple’s declining software quality
The decline seems real to me. A shortlist of things I&#x27;ve noticed:<p>* Spotlight no longer finds things as easily. I used to use it for everything. Since updating to El Capitan, it has missed some exact match folders. Planning to switch to Alfred.<p>* iWork was gutted in &#x27;13. People used to use Pages professionally. I&#x27;m now using Pages &#x27;09, and planning to transition to Word or Latex. I tested Pages &#x27;13 intensively, and it fails for even basic publishing.<p>* Siri can only work with default Apple apps. And those default apps are getting worse. So Siri takes a hit with every app that declines. I used to use Mail, now I don&#x27;t.<p>* Constant Wifi issues. I frequently have to turn off wifi, then turn on. On my home network. This never happened pre Mavericks.<p>* In general, all my Apple default software on my iphone is sitting in a folder titled &quot;apple&quot;, which I never use. I don&#x27;t think I use any Apple default App.<p>* I avoid icloud. It sends scary &quot;do you want to delete all these files&quot; messages if you ever unsync a device, and it&#x27;s not clear which actions produce which effects. iTunes has a history of destroying files on syncs, so I can&#x27;t trust iCloud. Even now, itunes will add apps to my device if they&#x27;re in my library but I deleted them from my phone. It does this without asking! Any other cloud app has figured out how to handle deletions from one device.<p>Pages 09 hit the hardest. It was wonderful software. I used it for print publishing, and it just worked. Easy to use, incredibly powerful. Have a look at their manual for the level of care they put into their software, as recently as 2009.<p>Pages 13 can&#x27;t do half of that. Very basic stuff like &quot;facing pages&quot; for books has been left out.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;manuals.info.apple.com&#x2F;MANUALS&#x2F;0&#x2F;MA663&#x2F;en_US&#x2F;Pages09_UserGuide.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;manuals.info.apple.com&#x2F;MANUALS&#x2F;0&#x2F;MA663&#x2F;en_US&#x2F;Pages09...</a><p><i></i>Edit:<i></i> A comment below pointed out that, I do in fact use default apps. I had taken them for granted. These ones work well and I use them:<p>Messages, Phone, camera, photos, clock, wallet, calendar, music (UI got worse on this one). Reminders I use occasionally because of the Siri integration.<p>There are some issues with some of them, but mostly they work pretty well.<p>On the mac, the only default apps I use frequently are textedit and Preview. Previews remains excellent. I use spotlight, but as noted above it got worse.