Apple as a model for how to produce slick software? Once upon a time, perhaps -- but these days, surely you jest! The quality of their software has become <i>abysmal</i>. The latest versions of iMovie, Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, on the App Store, have a median user rating of one star. Tasks which I was routinely doing with those applications, 5 years ago, are now impossible. That&#x27;s an intolerable situation.<p>Not saying you&#x27;re wrong about Google, though. I&#x27;m sure the Pixel-C problems are quite real: I encountered all of them myself, when my Moto-G was essentially bricked by the update to Android 5 (think 10-to-30-second lag on every keypress).<p>These frustrations with my Apple computer and Google phone are almost bad enough to push me into the arms of Microsoft... or would be, if every interaction I had with Microsoft products didn&#x27;t immediately show them to be even less competently executed than Apple or Google.