People expect technology to suck because it sucks
&gt; That’s the world WE ALL are living in now.<p>No Nikita, this is the world you live in. I saw this happening five years ago and ripped Apple out of my life like a band-aid that&#x27;s been there so long the skin&#x27;s closing up around it. It sucked, but now it&#x27;s a million times better.<p>There simply isn&#x27;t enough manpower, capital, or willpower to create decent software when you also have to contend with the profit motive. The author of the article went down a massive list of annoyances that just shouldn&#x27;t happen, and they all stem from the need to keep Apple&#x27;s technology proprietary.<p>This need goes all the way back to the Apple II, when Jobs made the prescient observation that people want to buy full packages of hardware and software, not bits and pieces that they have to assemble themselves. To do that, you need to make a company to do it, then control the platform, hardware and software, to ensure a good user experience. This is the DNA of Apple and it&#x27;s served them well and we got a lot of great tech out of it.<p>He was right, until he was wrong, and he didn&#x27;t really start being wrong until technology complicated to the point where a profit-seeking enterprise stopped being able to keep up with market demand.<p>I&#x27;ll tell the author or anyone else what they should do if they want to stop being constantly annoyed by technology. Use tech that is modifiable by the people that use them and not tech that is only modifiable by people you buy it from. If you do that, then you can lean on a community of people for support instead of a faceless corporation.<p>Apple is slowly morphing into 90s-era Microsoft as they keep holding on to the need for dominance over their platform.