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How can, after the intro of the M1 Pro/Max and the new MBPs and all the glory of the other M1 Macs, the Mac be considered having deteriorated? And by as much as SW quality? Either the people who came up with these ratings are on drugs or I am. Mind you, judges think the Mac worsened by the same absolute amount as Apple’s SW quality. Only a little (and less than most other categories), but still, it was judged in worse shape than one year ago. The Mac actually did worse this year than last. While the Mac is in a league of its own in that chart (well strictly speaking, the Mac together with HW quality in general), I find the relative changes from last year surprising. It’s of course great to see that Mac is doing so well. Then un-configure stuff that was changed, such as when her phone rings, FaceTime on the Mini also makes noise (that’s a setting in FaceTime.app, not in System Preferences.) Acknowledge “a new device has signed into iCloud” on her iPhone and iPad. Enter -my- iCloud password (something to do with Find My Mac). It was an exercise in computer security frustration! Enter her computer password. If you want to have “fun”, try setting up a Mac without initially configuring iCloud, and then add/activate iCloud.
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And that is Not A Good Thing!Īnd don’t get me started on the abomination that is Calendar.app on Mac OS and iOS! It is totally unacceptable for a Calendar app to put an appointment on my calendar that I cannot delete (from either phone or Mac) That just breaks one of the fundamental rules of good user design!
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But if the APIs have changed/are broken, that would explain things.) All this feels like Apple is going -backwards- in software quality assurance. (Emacs has been ported to -so many- different operating systems and platforms, I’m shocked there’d be porting problems. Similarly, the Aquamacs project is reporting issues and delays with an M1 native version. The stuff he is porting is having problems, particularly with APIs that have changed or that just don’t work. I chatted with one guy who did my favorite HDR photo processing app, and he told me he’s not porting his photo applications to the M1. I have workarounds, but I should NOT have to work around bugs!) Also multiple developers are reporting porting problems. I get crashes from Music.app weekly, and aberrant behavior daily (either a song that is ’stuck’ or that plays but the sound on the laptop is disabled. My $.02 (which takes inflation into account Apple software quality is going in the wrong direction.
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As always, the full report is well worth reading, particularly for the pithy quotes from your favorite Apple pundits. Conversely, the developer relations and HomeKit categories were low last year and dropped even further this year.Ĭuriously, other than a big jump in the Apple TV category (from an already low point, and entirely due to the new Siri Remote), every other category was either flat or saw a slight decline from last year.
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Overall scores were quite high, led by the Mac, hardware reliability, iPhone, and Wearables categories-the new MacBook Pro received especially glowing comments. Our friend Jason Snell has once again released his annual Six Colors Report Card, polling 53 Apple-adjacent professionals on the company’s performance, including many of us here at TidBITS. But is Apple keeping its customers and biggest fans happy? Despite seemingly endless hiccups in the supply chain, Apple continues to post record-breaking quarterly reports (see “ Apple Posts Record-Breaking Q1 2022 Despite Supply Constraints ,” 27 January 2022).