So, Apple has the most available cash resource of any company out there (or at least close to). Yet, bugs galore, and strange product decisions. The obvious conclusion is that their management is failing to staff accordingly to the work that needs to be done. This could be because they are not aware that work needs to be done, which means engineers are not telling them, or that the management is not succeeding in hiring enough people to do the jobs.

My gut instinct says that a some former people at Apple used to do a lot of undocumented QA work and sanity checks, and that as the company has grown and changed, nobody picked up the slack when they left. Now, they'll have to go through a formal process of re-identifying QA steps that need to exist, and hiring against them. It's been a hell of a month for them, though.