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Apple QC continues to plummet. No surprise, they are woefully understaffed where it matters.

I’ve found apple hardware to be better than ever, but Apple software to be worse than ever. I think they are building software with complexity beyond what they have the processes to handle.

I’m always surprised by this. Their sealed machines have heat throttling issues, graphics card failures, they’re not repairable (iMacs are THE WORST for this), keyboard issues, and that’s all ahead of the Intel chipset issues.

Until the m1 chips, I could say I don’t care at all about their hardware. Their software is buggy, but it’s irreplaceable and the most important thing for me. There’s nothing else out there like it.

It wasn’t always like this though... the rolling yearly releases changed much.

A perfect example: Xcode. Each major release is a nightmare and only after a year of bug fixes is it usable. And then another major release and it's broken again.

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