Michal Ždanský Apple software has long enjoyed a great reputation. It was stable, intuitive and "just worked". This was not always true only for operating systems, but also for first-party applications. Whether it was the iLife multimedia package or the professional Logic or Final Cut Pro applications, we knew we could expect sophisticated software that both regular users and creative professionals could appreciate.
Unfortunately, in recent years, the quality of Apple's software has severely degraded, on all fronts. Not only the bugged operating systems, but also the latest software updates, especially for Mac, did not bring much good for the users.
This trend dates back to 2011, when Apple released OS X Lion. It replaced the popular Snow Leopard, which is still considered the most stable version of OS X. Lion had a lot of problems, but the main one was speed degradation. Computers that were running briskly Snow Leopard started to become noticeably slow. Not for nothing was Lion called Windows Vista for Mac.
Mountain Lion, which arrived a year later, did repair OS X's reputation and greatly improved the system, but no other system has been tweaked as much as Snow Leopard, and new and new bugs keep piling up, some minor, some embarrassingly huge. And the latest OS X Yosemite is full of them.
iOS isn't much better. When iOS 7 was released, it was hailed as the most buggy version Apple had ever released. Self-restarting the phone was the order of the day, sometimes the phone stopped responding completely. Only version 7.1 got our devices into the form they should have been from the beginning.
And iOS 8? Not worth talking about. Not to mention the fatal 8.0.1 update, which partially disabled the latest iPhones and made calls impossible. Expansions, one of the most important innovations in the new system, seem rushed at best. Third-party keyboards cause the messaging app to freeze, sometimes not loading at all. Until a recent patch, the system didn't even remember the order of action extensions when sharing, and the photo editing extension is also no glory when the application interface freezes when using photo effects and often doesn't even save changes.
[do action=”quote”]Software, unlike hardware, is still a form of skill that cannot be rushed or automated.[/do]
Continuity was supposed to be a feature that only Apple could do, and it was supposed to show the amazing interconnectedness between the two platforms. The result is dubious to say the least. Mac call ringer doesn't turn off after receiving a call on your phone or canceling it. AirDrop has a problem finding the device from the other platform, sometimes you have to wait for long minutes, other times it doesn't find it at all. Handoff also works rather sporadically, the only clear exception being receiving SMS to Mac.
Add to all this other childhood ailments from both platforms, such as persistent problems with Wi-Fi, reduced battery life, strange iCloud behavior, for example when working with photos, and you have a tarnished reputation. Each of the problems may seem small in itself, but in the end it is the one straw out of thousands that breaks the camel's neck.
However, it is not only about operating systems, but also about other software. Final Cut Pro X was and still is a slap in the face to all professional editors who prefer to switch to Adobe products. Instead of the long-awaited Aperture update, we saw its cancellation in favor of a significantly simpler Photos application, which will replace not only Aperture, but also iPhoto. In the case of the second application, this is only a good thing, because this previously celebrated photo manager has become unreliable and slow bloatware, however, Aperture will be missing from a number of professional applications, and its absence once again throws users into the arms of Adobe.
Even the new version of iWork was not very well received, when Apple removed a large part of the established functions, including support for AppleScript, and practically gutted all applications to very simple office software. I'm not even talking about the iWork format change that requires users to keep the old version of iWork because the new package simply won't open them. In contrast, Microsoft Office has no problem opening documents created, for example, 15 years ago.
Who is to blame for everything
It's hard to find the culprits for the degradation of Apple's software quality. It's easy to point the finger at the firing of Scott Forstall, under whose software reign at least iOS was in much better shape. Rather, the problem lies in Apple's huge ambitions.
Software engineers are under enormous pressure every year, because they have to release a new version of the operating system every year. For iOS it was customary since the second version, but not for OS X, which had its own pace and tenth updates came out roughly every two years. With the annual cycle, there simply isn't time to catch all the flies, as the testing cycle has shortened to only a few months, during which it is simply impossible to patch all the holes.
Another factor may also be the Watch smart watch, which Apple has been developing for the past three years, and probably reassigned a large part of the software engineers to the Apple Watch operating system project. Of course, the company has enough resources to hire more programmers, but the quality of the software is not directly proportional to the number of programmers working on it. If the greatest software talent at Apple is working on another project, it is difficult to replace him at the moment, and the software suffers from unnecessary bugs.
Software, unlike hardware, is still a form of skill that cannot be rushed or automated. Apple simply cannot create software as efficiently as its devices. Therefore, the only correct strategy is to let the software "mature" and embellish it to the most perfect form. But with the gallows deadlines that Apple has woven for itself, it's a bigger bite than it can swallow.
The annual release of new versions is great fodder for the marketing of Apple, which has a big say in the company, and it is on it that the company largely stands. It's definitely a better sell that users have another new system waiting for them, rather than having to wait another year, but it will be debugged. Unfortunately, perhaps Apple doesn't realize the damage software riddled with bugs can cause.
There was a time when Apple loyalty rested on the well-known mantra "it just works", something that a user quickly gets used to and doesn't like to let go of. Over the years, Apple has woven more networks in the form of an interconnected ecosystem, but if otherwise beautiful-looking and detailed products continue to show themselves as unreliable on the software side, the company will slowly but surely begin to lose its loyal customers.
Therefore, instead of another big OS update with hundreds of new features and improvements, this year I would like Apple to release only the hundredth update, for example iOS 8.5 and OS X 10.10.5, and instead focus on catching all the bugs that degrade the software to old versions of Windows that we as Mac users mocked for their endless bugs.
I'm missing one mention about the software. Few people realize that every software, program, OS or application gets bloated over time.
A lot of people blamed Apple for being as closed as it is and not being able to do a lot of things. To open up, to teach it new things, and to keep adding new things, means to extend the code and existing functions by tens of thousands of lines of code. In this case, the problems do not grow in direct proportion, but usually geometrically - and there will be a moment when we will have to choose, if we do not want to wait a long time for debugging - "I need this function at the cost of possible deterioration of another one, or I will give up on it and continue to have the great do I have?”.
The more there is, the easier it is for something to fail. The more features and options, the worse it will be. And it's a matter of time everywhere, not just at Apple.
probably like a Škoda 120 and some modern car with electronics... the Škoda was repaired with a hammer, with the electronics you have to go to the service center to get it fixed, as Izer said :)
that's a great comparison :)
Well, one can seriously doubt that. Apple is removing features rather than adding new ones. Final Cut X had functions removed, something was lost from both iWorks and iLife programs. Now Photo is being prepared instead of iPhotos and again it should have fewer functions.
They add more to OS X and iOS, but also take away from them.
Unfortunately, we have to agree. The article speaks to my soul. I'm also advocating a tuned system once every two years rather than a mad dash for an annual untuned system. But I'm an optimist and I believe it will get better. Otherwise, an excellently written article.
It is a fact that there were more errors, and such a pace of introducing new versions of systems does not benefit it, on the other hand, with each new version of iOS or Mac OS, I was excited about the new features and satisfied with the quick correction of fundamental errors. A great example is Handoff and Continuity, which work great for me and, without exaggeration, make life easier. Unfortunately, the problem in this case is often the incompatibility of older devices with older bluetooth versions.
So, despite the disturbing trend, satisfaction with "increasing the quality of (working) life" thanks to the use of most of the Apple ecosystem clearly outweighs the fact that "It just works" applies "only" 98% of the time.
Amen. Yesterday iCloud remembered me and deleted all my contacts. Good Job keep it up!
so that wouldn't be quite true, would it? I bet they stayed in the cloud, at most deleted from iOS
And it doesn't matter? The bottom line is that it complicates life.
How many times has this happened? Once? It requires calmness and warm feet
Mr. Cyril, it hasn't happened to me once and my feet are warm, that's the basis of winter equipment :) when you meet me, please remember me.
Btw, yes, I didn't write where I deleted it, but it doesn't change the fact that the brilliant cloud, which likes to tighten itself up, is to blame...howgh
It's what I would give for a debugged iOS, every day I have to solve senseless errors that weren't here before, lately I feel that the magic of Apple is leaving me more and more...
Apple is screwed, they've really raised sheep... there's only an ecosystem here and an ecosystem there... people still buy it, so what? And that 1 per thousand is downloaded on any forums... I'm hooked.
You speak from the heart... "It just works" is gone. Now, in order to start something (I'll add Family Sharing as well) I have to search on the net why it doesn't work and sometimes I find rather strange solutions, for example, in the case of Family Sharing problems, you need to "look" at your iTunes profile and then it works. Bugged iOS. The good old iOS is gone! It's a huge shame. I prefer less features and more functionality.
I'm almost ashamed to write this, but everything really works to my satisfaction. The truth, on the other hand, is that I have never used Pages and Numbers (I somehow have MSOffice under my skin), so I probably can't judge it completely, but I haven't really had the problems described in the five years I've been using Apple products.
Many, it probably depends on how much you use the features that OSX or iOS offers. It is simply true that problems with WiFi and other clouds of small but annoying errors fill both systems to the brim :-(.
Sure, you're right. But I'm a typical Iowan, I only use what I need and I'm extremely satisfied that "it works". But that was exactly my reason for leaving the World Cup. That is, the fact that it seemed to me that I was always solving some kind of problem. But I don't want to judge MS, my last experience is with W7 and that's still in virtual under OS-X, maybe it's different now. On the other hand, I had an MBPRO from 2010, since the fall I have a new one (a change for the better for me), I had iPads one, two and Air (also never for the worse), an iPhone 4 and 5S (a huge improvement). From the point of view of my needs on different Mac devices, I think I have the possibility to compare.
I can only sign. Everything is fine for me too. Even on my grandfather's MBP13 2009. I can't get handoff and continuity, but it's time to replace it. iP5 with iOS 8 also has a problem. By God, I've never had problems with Apple. Signal with ip4, some more scratches on the black ip5 sw bug, etc. Everything always worked as it should. On the contrary, I don't understand how my MacBook can be relatively fast and edit video. The only problem is the slower editing of 24MPX RAW.
However, it is written exactly in the article. You give an example of a five-year-old machine from the It just works era. I will be interested in your opinion after replacing the machine.
I've considered switching from Windows myself, but at this point I'm afraid to spend twice as much money on the same buggy machine.
There are always some minor hiccups. But I'm also one of the lucky ones and everything works for me as it should. But still. A few bugs appear and it's already catching up - look at windows, it's just carnage and ballast there.
I agree with Honza. I have an iPhone 6 plus, an iPad Air 1 and an iMac "27" from the second half of 2013. All have the latest OS and EVERYTHING WORKS AS IT SHOULD. I note that I use everything to the fullest. That is Production of graphics for TV, video editing (Finall Cut), writing (Pages) scenarios, etc. It's probably piece by piece. When you buy a car of a certain brand and it has some ailments, it does not automatically mean that the company manufactures junk.
But I do agree that Apple is trying to be maybe a little too productive right now.
Paradoxically, the biggest problem I had with the iPhone 4S was when I couldn't get a signal. But since then everything has been fine.
See: My iPhone doesn't bend, 128GB also doesn't show service with a large number of applications. But I was afraid, no, I wasn't :-).
Also, iP 5S + iMac Retina everything is ok, but for example Continuity and Handoff did not work for me with the old MBPro 2009, it had to be bypassed somehow, so no "it just works". Numbers, Pages, Mail, Calendar, iCloud Drive/Photos, iPhoto, iCloud sync…. everything except minor bugs OK. I reduced the third-party software for daily use to Adobe LR, because I always thought it was better than Aperture, which (fortunately today) I'm not used to and instead of Photoshop, Pixelmator sizzles.
Can I ask - aren't you noticing distinct system lag on the iPhone 6+? I had both the 6 for about a month, and now the 6+ and the Plus is clearly slower in almost everything. I don't know if it's the bigger display or what's causing it, but sometimes it really annoys me. When I pick up the 6, everything runs nice and smooth. I'm not even talking about the vibrations, which are terribly loud and unnatural on the plus, or the hard Home button.
I definitely agree with the article.
So far I only have an iPhone 4S from Apple, but it seems to work fine. I have a Mac mini on order, I'm waiting for it as I had 16GB Ram put in it, so I'm curious how it will work. I will certainly not be one of the complainers, I am used to solving problems on Google from Linux and that Ubuntu also has clouds of them. I hate Windows, I hate this system, so I have no choice but to go to Apple anyway. I can't judge if Apple worked better before, but in general one tends to idealize the past and curse the present.
You will probably be mostly satisfied, but how long will it take before you dualboot with Linux preference. At least I am bothered by the increasingly closed nature of the Mac, which no longer has any advantages - see the article. In addition, the freedom to modify the system to your own image is addictive. But they make iron beautiful..
I also agree with the article. Every day, something doesn't work for me, even though it should logically work - multi-finger gestures often stop working on the iPad, sometimes part of the keyboard stops responding (I only use the standard one), Wi-Fi connection problems are also nothing out of the ordinary. And if I can complain about anything in the Mac OS, it's File Vault. I don't even know when and by what oversight I had it on, but that's just the end of it. It cannot be turned off and it will never be encrypted, because the remaining time to the end unfortunately exceeds the life of the machine itself. So my expensive and masterfully crafted piece of aluminum hardware will spend the rest of its days futilely and unnecessarily strained by encryption, I have to accept the loss of performance and endurance, and I'll probably have to look for something newer soon.
Unfortunately I have to agree. With the arrival of OSX Yosemite, all my contacts disappeared from the system. They are still available on IOS devices, but on OSX they just don't sync anymore. A clean reinstall didn't solve anything and unfortunately I'm not the only one. Complaints are piling up from users even with calendar synchronization, all of which is apparently caused by the transition to iCloud Drive, which did not work out for Apple at all, as it was able to delete all users' data during the reinstallation of IOS 8. The fact that the system does not work reliably will bite me and I will hope for an update, but the fact that users are already losing data is literally catastrophic.
I absolutely agree
I don't agree. Due to the news from CES, I got on the apple cart after a while, but I will never do it again (I already promised it once and broke my promise after two years). Sir, I currently run 7 macs from a tin MacBook Pro 17 to iMac Retina, 3 iPads, 3 iPhones. Everything works as it should, I cannot confirm any of the mentioned problems. Curse yourselves. Goodbye
It's hard for someone to blame themselves when their system freezes for no apparent reason and without any user intervention, some components stop working reliably, data synchronization does not take place reliably even with an application directly from the Apple workshop, etc. But I understand that if someone operates such a large number of devices, he cannot pay enough attention to each of them in a normal user-like manner to distinguish the problem advice of "normal" people at all.
I've owned a Mac Pro 15″ Retina full blast for a month. A friend basically recruited me to the Apple army. iPhone 5S, iPod nano and now the Mac. I've been used to windows and their bugs all my life. Switching to Mac was great. About a day. 16gb ram? Where is it hiding? Find MS Office as fast as Parallels and I'm where I was a few weeks ago. Win7… Mac is great, but not as much as I expected.
"16gb of ram? Where is it hiding?” – I don't understand what you mean by that. If you mean it fills up quickly, that's fine. OS X doesn't use RAM like Windows, i.e. it's half empty and happily swaps around the disk. As for Office and Parallels, if you don't have the option to detach yourself from SW for Windows, then I don't understand buying a Mac. It is not bought like an iPhone to be IN, but when you know what you need it for and can appreciate it.
problems with the lagging system can very likely be caused by the battery.. at least it was in my case.. as if the chips somehow went crazy, ...
try changing the battery…
it showed me up to 100 cycles, but it could not maintain the capacity... (of course after an unimaginable 4 years of use, mostly on the network)
After replacing the battery, the system returns to full functionality and smoothness without updates!!!
Either you use the device like my grandmother = you call once a week on Sunday and read seznam.cz on your PC or you are lying! Goodbye!
I only have a problem with airdrop between 5S and rMBP 2013.
And one more problem with the keyboard in WhatsApp, where the keyboard shortcuts don't work for me unless I write something and then I don't delete it until the last letter. Then the keyboard shortcuts work.
This is very pessimistic, but yes, I have the same impressions. iOS 8 is the worst iPhone and especially iPad update ever. Gestures hardly work, iPad 4 lags like a cow. The iPhone 6 doesn't seem as smooth to me as the previous new iPhones with the current "pointing" system. OS X … For the first time after years of updating, I feel that my 2011 13″ Macbook Pro is broken. The michuda of death spins unusually often. The Bluetooth keyboard (Apple) keeps disconnecting, draining or what the hell. The programs have been trampling on me for years, crashing and lagging me. I'm waiting like hell for an update to the sound software. Perhaps for the first time after 4 years of having a Mac, I got totally frozen several times... Yo yo... Yosemitte :-(
When I put win on air 3 years ago, everyone was surprised. Today, everyone sees that it is a wonderful combination of a functional system and a great note.
It's a pity that winphone data cannot be transferred to the iPhone. I tried it on lumia and I have not seen such a wonderful and intuitive system. Ios has a lot of catching up to do - unfortunately, it's still going down a rough road..
Hello,
i have to join too. I have been a loyal supporter of Apple for several years and I perceived the devices of this brand as an absolutely perfect combination of HW and SW. Unfortunately, over the past year, my idea has almost faded away. It started problems with iPhone 5 which I have 3 times !!! successfully claimed. Very often it happened to me that I lost the signal after switching between 3G and 2G networks and no one contacted me until I restarted the device. Unfortunately, this happened again with each new phone. After switching to another mobile system, I no longer experienced this problem. Unfortunately, further complications also started on my MB Pro early 2011 after installing OS Maverick. The computer takes much longer to boot and I have to "hard" restart it regularly every day because it just freezes. I didn't know this until recently. I regret it, and the next time I buy a computer, I will think more about whether the higher acquisition cost of the MB Pro is justified.
Even with the latest iOS I have the same problem with the signal dropping out on the 5S. I'd say it's more of a software bug. Did they tell you at the service that it was a HW error and they simply replaced the phone? Was the phone purchased/reclaimed for a company or an individual?
Here, all that is left of all that was once so beautiful is that one company is responsible for both HW and SW - we know who to blame. We can't help ourselves in the face of competition and we can only cry.
Hello, I confess that I no longer know what was in the service report, but I think it's nothing. Just a confirmation of acknowledgment of the claim. I always got a brand new phone that did the same thing. So, to be even more specific: the mobile showed the signal strength, but when I wanted to make a call, the message "call failed" appeared. After that, the phone had to be restarted, and mostly SMS messages about missed calls came after that. I got the call failure message several times a day. At first I blamed it on the operator. But since I have a different brand of phone, this has not happened once!!! The iPhone was purchased with an ID number. I already sold the fourth replaced piece, but a week ago the buyer brought it back to me saying that it has signal problems. So I don't know, either I was so unlucky or there really is a problem. That's why I no longer believe that the iPhone is the best phone you can buy. It is no longer a special thing for me, but just one of many types of mobile phones. It no longer produces the wow effect for me.
similar experience, but replaced the battery (eBay) and a new SSD drive (Samsung EVO), enable TRIM, my old MBP with Superdrive has speed that it never had...
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It started like this for me. I'm an old window keeper. 95,8,ME,XP,Vis,7...I went through them all because there was no money for the OS of the device, but I kept looking for an infinitely stable and tuned system, which had a "spark in the eye", so to speak, that was simply different. I kept looking in tip iStyle stores, on websites to see how everything was going, etc...
Then one day I said enough nerves and still reinstalling systems after half a year to keep the system at least at some decent speed levels, because windows slowed down a lot over time. I bought a second generation MacBook Air I think. My enthusiasm was confirmed by a perfectly functioning system and completely stress-free starting situations. It just worked. Launching applications was so fast that the icon in the bar didn't even have time to finish and it was already launched. Then came the new OS X, then another and then macbook pro retina and I have to stop here.
It's all overpaid crap that I probably won't even use. It's a slow system when I play music via bluetooth, so after playing music for a while, the sound mute response is manifested in a way that the volume changes in 2-3 seconds! What is it? The same with pause or shutdown, a three-second delay does not seem normal to me. Then the movies play with the voice shifted, etc. When my iPhone prompts me, it plays for another 3s on the Mac and it's really annoying.
In Cupertino, they should think about what is important for people, and that, in my opinion, is to work without nerves like on Windows.
that's why I ran away from Microsoft and went to Apple. I was just more calm, but today? No. Not really. I still have to do my office work in MS Office, which I have under Parallels, and I find that 8.1 or win10 will be at the same or better level than the current OS X, which really saddens me. As for Aperture, it froze me again. I use it quite often, but I didn't expect that they would cancel it... in addition, I paid for software that I want to have and continue to use, unfortunately without updates...
When I take into account the outrageous money for both iFuck and MacBook Pro retina, slowly and surely if the problems keep piling up, I will switch to another platform.
Respect to all opinions…Cuba
Buy NTB DELL + win 7 = my story, it started the same as yours. I've had it for a year and I'm OK - you just have to hold back a tear for the gestures and speed of waking up at MBA. Otherwise, Windows leads the solution!
I'm quite glad that I'm not the only one who sees the decline, sometimes actually finding something and setting it up in iOS is like searching for it in Android in Samsung, the same applies to OSX, simplicity goes by the wayside because of all those functions and the quality decreases. And another thing that annoys me is the swelling of Cook, or whatever you want to call it. Ok, he can brag, but only if the results speak for him. Although sales are increasing, satisfaction is decreasing. It almost seems to me like a complex from something...
And when I wrote about it three years ago, I was a morose and a kazishuk... Shit, I've been a soft drinker for 22 years, and I probably see the subtle changes earlier. And the main thing started even before Jobs' death, loosening the strict rules for UI, application behavior and graphic guidelines that Apple was famous for. Three or four completely different (but all official) app skins appeared, previously insurmountable and unthinkable rules began to be violated (such as that every command and every keyboard shortcut has a corresponding item somewhere in the menu), etc., and things went downhill . It's sad to watch…
…for the second time. Because I've seen a similar breakdown once before. After 1995, and two years later, Apple was about to close. Unfortunately, now he has the capital to buy a smaller continent, so the inertia will be huge and even if they screw up everything, they will ride the wave for many more years. And what's worse is that it will take an awfully long time before they themselves notice a problem inside. But let's talk about it in three years, when they cancel the bankrupt overhyped watch project...
Unfortunately, you were right, you probably had the previous experience. My total satisfaction went away with 10.6 Snow Leopard, then it started trickling down, and it's been going downhill for the last two years. After ten years with apple, I'm suddenly afraid of anything they come up with. Like when software quality control doesn't work (I prefer not to talk about a unified concept). Even the synchronization of stupid notes is going crazy today.
100% agreement, I would just add that I see similar trends in technology leaders in other fields - I don't know what it is - subjectively I believe that it is, among other things, the arrival of a young generation of developers - whose ego is significantly stronger than their ability to learn and submit to authority and rules….
Brief characteristics:
1. 4S phone – motherboard failure – 2 months after warranty – repair CZK 6
2. imac 27 2010 – disk failure 2014 – repair 8,-
3. recovery of accidentally deleted reminders from time machine - forget it - not working
4. Reminders in iphone - multiple folders - color marking and folders do whatever they want - long waiting time for synchronization
5. iwork - synchronization - if you're lucky it works - otherwise you'll have to wait a few minutes
Well, for the beginning, probably everything. But otherwise good :-) apple keep going
The synchronization doesn't really work reliably for me either. I've tried that if it doesn't work (to iP6+ or AIR 2), I do a hard reset of iOS and then it usually works right away. I remember the golden good MobileMe !!!
Complete agreement! I would write my story, but mic would be no different from others. Let me tell you something about iPhones - I recruited 4 of my best friends to buy an iPhone 5. It's nice - we use shared photos on iCloud all the time and are more in touch.
One of those friends is a classic woman and doesn't deal with technology much. So I recommended the iPhone - you don't have to worry about anything and everything will work!
After a month she called me completely dialed. He just couldn't unlock her iPhone, she moved her finger here and there and nothing. She needed to send a report to work within 10 minutes, otherwise she would lose money. After a while of unsuccessful unlocking, she peeled off the expensive glass foil - she thought that was it. It still didn't work. She sat in the car and tried to send it from somewhere else. She sent, pulled out the iphone and it worked normally. This is the current apple. :-(
I can't recommend it to anyone in good conscience.
In addition, burn the hardware to the board. Frames and disc. If you find any bad sectors on your hard drive, you can throw it all away. Steve could use some kind of reincarnation because he is already getting a tailcoat and a design...
The disk is not fixed. It can be easily replaced, but only Apple has them.
That doesn't solve anything, because the exchange will be price unrealistic.
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And why?
If, for example, there is a surcharge of USD 200 for a macbook air from a 128GB disk to a 256GB one, the price for a 128GB disk can be expected to be USD 200-250, and the price for a 256GB disk will be around USD 400-450. The surcharge from 256GB to 512GB is 300 USD, so the price for a 512 GB disk will be around 700-750 USD. It always works out cheaper than throwing away the MacBook Air. Or it is possible to get some bazaar disk from a broken mba.
My name is Hufflepuff, this is where it was born...
it's true that the .Mac service was the best, then they gave mobile.me and iCloud.com and it's a miracle. My older computer Imac from 2009 does not enable iCloud, but before that .mac worked perfectly. It seems to me that it's a bit of a mess, guys
exactly iDisk, it was revolutionary, "DropBox" was also a folder in OSX, whose ideas were taken over by other "firms"
damage!!! and exactly as Mirda writes, it doesn't work like it used to, I don't understand why, it was running like clockwork, the internet was slow!!!! I am disappointed
Apple surprise me and "work" as before 2009!!!!!!
I again have a problem logging into iCloud on my Mac (it works fine everywhere on iPhone, iPad) it says "Not available at this time", does anyone know what to do with it?:)
Michal, if only this article had reached Apple..
original articles are here
http://www.tuaw.com/2015/01/06/apple-software-quality-and-the-sprint-system-of-os-x-developme/
and here ;)
http://www.cultofmac.com/297693/hey-apple-happened-just-works/
this article seems to me, IMHO, like a synthesis, but anyway it's nice that it appeared here. The topic of "software quality" is starting to be openly discussed even on the official apple dev forums
I have to agree, I have to constantly restart the MacBook with the new Yosemite, otherwise I won't even move the window many times. I remember that before, I restarted once every six months, even with an older machine. :(
How can you restart a macbook hardware-ovo? :D Once it happened to me that it froze and I couldn't even restart it.. Maybe you found out something that's why I'm asking.. :D
Press and hold the power button until the device turns off.
I guess I didn't try that.. I held it for 10 seconds and nothing..
Hello,
On Macbook Pro and iPhone (4S, 6), I did not experience any of the problems described, neither with Yosemite, nor with iOS 7 or 8. So I don't know, maybe I'm doing something differently and that's how I avoid the glitches. Only the iPad mini gets angry at times, but nothing that makes me reject Apple.
As for working with photos, I totally agree there!
like a cat, it sometimes rings a few seconds after I pick it up on the phone, yes. applications also crash more than usual, even those that didn't crash - preview? wtf?. but otherwise everything works as it should - icloud sleeps beautifully, continuity, handoff. I must have won the lottery or something. otherwise I have mid 2014 mbp and na nom mavericks upgraded to yosemite. the only thing that really pissed me off is that the time capsule disk was sent to me after a year.
I completely agree with Štefan. Everything works for me as it should on both Yosemite and iOS8. Comfort and a user-friendly intuitive environment completely incomparable with Windows.
I agree, works perfectly fine on iPhone 5, iPad Air 2 and Macbook Air '13 :) it's true that the photos are so messed up, but hopefully they should fix that soon
Well, I wanted to buy a mac mini to test, but after its update and what I've been reading here for the last few months, I changed my mind. I would say that osx and ios are moving to the time of windows 95-xp. I am most amused that the solution is usually a restart or restore. I've been experiencing this on Windows since at least Vist. Maybe Apple will get out of it, just like Microsoft.
:-DZ what did microsoft dig out? Optimization and intuitiveness is still totally out. Apple is still doing pretty well
So I meant above all the stability of the system. Over the past years, I have had to restore my iOS device many times, and that was only because some basic functions such as wifi, signal, or maybe the phone could not be unlocked would start working. Since windows vista, 7 and 8, I have never had to reinstall or restart the system due to freezing. And people around me feel the same way.
I don't know that at all. I've never had to restore my iPhone and never had to restore my Mac. I just don't experience the described problems. I use the Mac Mini as a multimedia device connected to a DVB-S tuner and a TV, also completely satisfied. I really like it - I take photos, record a video and before I get home, I can look at it directly on the Mac Mini.. and many other features.. With the comparison to woks, it's probably like Apple was in 2012 so 6 years ahead of Microsoft, now thanks to some shortcomings it is only 4 years ahead of it, well.. But definitely not behind it even by mistake..
First, I would recommend looking at Microsoft, because it has moved incredibly. What you mention is not only the domain of apple, but almost all of them, and I don't have a complete household from Apple today, so today I would think twice about spending the money on it again, because I'm no longer interested in the degradation of my money with every update.
Finally an article that doesn't strike me as "fanatically" one-sided. I would just add that the problem is not only in the SW, it seems that even the HW no longer receives the same care as it used to. Simply put, other interests are pursued than the orientation to quality. But as long as we keep buying them (which for some is more inertia), then nothing will change.
nice article!!
I agree with almost everything that is published in it!!! "it just worked!"
iWork, FCP
I use both HW with the latest OS X (iMac and Air) and iPad Air and the latest and older iPhones. They must agree with the article completely and without reservations, as it is also described on foreign websites. I used to recommend iPhones and Apple to anyone, but today I prefer to be more careful. Yosemite is unbelievably bogged down, it was already known on the test versions, e.g. when the display on the iMac goes to sleep and I immediately want to start it again, it falls into some kind of black screen from which it is impossible to get out. I'm downloading something and the download tab in the dock gets stuck. And there would be many such mistakes. They are similar in iWork or iPhoto, which is incredibly slow, especially in some situations. I think iOS is perhaps even worse, especially in terms of system stability and fluidity. I have been using an iPhone 6 for a month, now I have a 6 plus and the plus is noticeably slower for me, the lag is visible in many cases. Sometimes it's only noticeable when moving between screens, sometimes when scrolling through the music list (I'm not even talking about cower flow), it's quite obvious, for example, when loading open tabs in Safari. At the same time, everything was completely smooth on the normal six. It also scares me that iPhones still have weak RAMs, so each new system slows them down more and more. The first iOS8 was a pain on the iPhone 4S, it couldn't be used normally. I am also sorry for the weak support for updating applications – mainly Czech ones – for new iPhones. Practically no app is updated for a higher resolution, and when someone releases something new, it is only optimized for the iPhone 5. Of course, Apple is not to blame for this. Lately, I've been saying that iPhones or Apple represent the least evil for me, and I would never believe that I would have to label it that way. From my experience with top Androids and WP, however, iOS is still the best and mainly has the best selection of apps. For major operating systems, it will depend on how Windows 10 does. I already had a period when I had only pure Windows (7) on my iMac without OS X at all and it ran great, but after a while it got boring. And unfortunately, I would also miss Magic Mouse gestures a lot, for example in the browser. So we'll see how it goes further :-).
I agree, apple has gotten a lot worse (I've been working with apples for twenty years), they're getting on my nerves with the limitation of HW configurations and errors in SW (I still have a seven-bit sys on my iP5S :), but just today I tried to set up a work mobile with android inherited from my wife (gave up it was during a conflict between google accounts when the phone demanded a restart to factory settings) and I'm now more willing to take Apple at their mercy :) but it doesn't change the fact that they should improve.. to the negatives I would add the habit of reporting products long before before they are available, what they demonstrated with MacPro I will not forgive them.. I would never have thought that I would intentionally buy older versions of HW (book, mini) because it seems better than the new one :-/
That's how I was with the iPad. I bought a mini 2 in the winter because it was a lot of money and to pay almost double for a mini 3 just to be able to unlock it with a fingerprint? Sorry, but this is a stupid forum.
Very good article. I completely agree with Michal and I feel sad for Apple. Not only is the software even worse, but also the HW has nothing to brag about...
My iPod left me after 2 years and 3 days ;-)
I change the keyboard to the MAC every year
A DVD in a MAC lasts about 2 months - I no longer have a warranty or the power to repair it
The iPhone is susceptible to a bit of sun, even winter. It's really cooling, or it's looking for a network.
iPad - probably the only thing from Apple that I take my hat off to. I haven't had a single problem in 3 years of use. And we have already broken the display. He always sleeps.
Apple is a thing of the past... I describe myself in my terrible advertisement for Yosemite: "OS X Yosemite - Every bit as powerful as it looks"... And they are right - it looks disgusting and it doesn't work.... Jobs would not allow this hideous design.
Finally someone put a name to what I have been experiencing for a long time. Apple systems have always been reliable, but now it's the same problem. AirDrop is not working for me - I thought it was just me! Likewise HandsOff - I thought it only prompts me after acceptance? And those bugs in iOS8 – wow. Why?!
Well, after reading the article and the discussion, I have the feeling that I use completely different products and OD than others, but everything works as it should for me. iOS 8 on iPad mini and iPhone is comfortable, does not crash and is very reliable. I only have Yosemite for a short time, but everything works as it should.
If... it rains, it freezes. I'm used to slowing down. Basically, I'm going back to a combination of old Nokia and XP functionality. If I could at least go back to the older version of the system, when I have already updated it to the new system. Cte was demoted
Me too. I do not have a problem. On the contrary. I finally managed to escape Windows two and a half years ago after many failed attempts with Linux. For OS X and MacBook. I'm still peeing with happiness. It just works. A very dissatisfied frustrated administrator became a satisfied balanced user.
Same with me. For me, switching to OS X was a total release. I messed with Windows every day, even reinstalling windows didn't work, just nothing. I enjoy Macbook. Everything is faster, more reliable, intuitive. I'm really tired of the talk about Apple going downhill. Let those eternal complainers try Android or Windows and tear their hair out in rage.
Perfectly written current status. I'm definitely not going to leave the Mac, but I'm considering switching to the Nexus 6, which I'm going to try out now, pure Android 5.0 looks like a finally mature system and, above all, a system where, for the first time in the history of Android, the user comes first. If development continues as it did last year, Google will overtake Apple in mobile technology. If Android was controlled and enforced in its clean version for all manufacturers a long time ago, many iOS users would have decided to choose Android instead of iOS. Sad fact.
Good luck then. I did the same thing a year ago, I switched from an iP5 to a Nexus 5. Great phone, so halfway through the year. It's not so much that hw is worth a fart and I had to complain about it several times. It's about Android as such, it's just that after a year and a half of use you can't avoid a restore because of speed or battery or anything else. If you think that Android is a better system than iOS, it is not, both have their flaws and for me iOS has less of them. ;)
And I wouldn't be so sure about the "fact" at the end :)
There is some kind of special measure here. While the shareholder's money mostly appreciates, the money invested in the technology depreciates with each further update. I left Microsoft in the XP era. When I look at the Macbook today, it doesn't exactly abound in speed. I won't say it sucks. It just takes an indeterminate amount of time for something to happen. The update of the sevens made my tablet and phone a total moron, which even the spa won't help anymore. And this strategy tells me, hmmmm, your iron is not so efficient anymore, buy a new one. But it was pretty good before they demoted it to me. But apple clients didn't stink of a crown, so it wasn't a problem to buy a newer model just because I just like it and not because Apple forced it. And should I buy new ones to live in fear that they will degrade me again?
I also have a bad feeling about Apple. My personal opinion on the matter is that Jobs was focused on the product and any profit from the sale was a "side effect" of making and selling the perfect device. Tim Cook is, IMHO, a numbers-oriented person, he is completely uninterested in products. He strives to be a satisfied shareholder. He coughs on old loyal users from the days of PPC, on developers, on graphics and editors. It pushes marketing, sales and makes Apple a producer of well-selling trinkets. It makes a profit but, in essence, tunnels Apple's credit from the inside. When I see him and hear him speak, he impresses me, don't be angry, fake, affected, guesswork feminists and schemers, estrogen is spraying everywhere. What a terrifying contrast to the often evil, smug, egotistical but testosterone-fuelled Jobs. Maybe I give the impression of a xeno-homo-and-who-knows-what kind of phobe, but I can't help it.
I completely agree, that person doesn't suit me at all, maybe not even in the way he manifests himself, but in what direction he "leads" the whole thing. My modest estimate is about 10 years, after which Apple will no longer be popular, whose popularity was carved out by Jobs and is now slowly fading away. All it takes is one manufacturer with equally good software, simple and user friendly, and almost no one will want Apple anymore. I like it, I mean I liked Apple before Jobs and maybe 2 years after him, but what is being created there now, I don't know, do I need a comment, or is history enough? Will they change that Saxon or bye bye apple.
Almost everyone suspected that Apple would go down again without Jobs, but how quickly it is happening shocks everyone.
Well, after the experience with 3 clean installations of Yosemite on 2 new MacBook Pro Retina, I'm starting to think seriously about installing a new wokna on MBPR.
I'll give it a few more months, but so many bugs and so many reboots that I've done in the last 14 days, I probably haven't done with wokna in 20 years...
I don't see, at home we have iP5, iP5s, iP6 and iP6+, Air 13″ (2012), Pro 15″ (2011), Pro 13″ (2013) and none of them needed a restore or anything like that. Everything just works since we bought it. The only problem we solved was replacing the display of the Air as part of the warranty.
If 2015 is in the rhythm of "It just works" for Apple, then hopefully we will see some stabilization and optimization of the existing software. Personally, I would be most pleased if they made an iPhone in the original 3G size.