&quot;During the &quot;golden age&quot; of apple, apps would just work.&quot;<p>nope. Ive been using apple software for 20 years.<p>apple software has ALWAYS been crap.  its just also been less crap than the opposition.<p>hell, before OS X, a crashed app would force you to restart the entire computer....<p>I still remember long afternoons debugging a CodeWarrior application, and having to restart after every successful replication of the problem...