Apple’s declining software quality
&gt; it’s tragic that Aperture and iPhoto were axed in favor of the horrifically bad Photos app (that looks like some Frankenstein “iOS X” app)<p>I find Photos.app to be the <i>best</i> Apple app I&#x27;ve ever used. It&#x27;s simple, modern, works amazingly well between iOS and OS X, transparently manages 100GB of data between iCloud and local storage.<p>This entire piece is surfing on Mossberg&#x27;s take and goes way too far.<p>From what we know, Apple does seem to be sorting out big challenges on software side:<p>- transition to Swift on 2 platforms, which won&#x27;t happen until they decide to only support 64-bits OS X and iOS at some point in 2017 or 2018 or later<p>- OS X and iOS foundations are actually super solid. Accidents happen, both codebases are now much more mature and stable. Probably the best they had for decades<p>- manage the largest updates in history yearly. You hear of bugs because everybody gets to experience them at the same time. Windows never got that many million devices updated overnight<p>On top of that, they do seem to have conflicting marketing priorities. They don&#x27;t know what to do with iTunes - as a brand, as an app, as an experience. They&#x27;re obviously conflicted whether a user should depend on the AppStore to do stuff (feature creep in Notes.app).<p>IMO this &quot;apple software sucks&quot; is more a consequence of a stalled marketing than an engineering problem.