Software has never been their forte, unfortunately.
Not so much now, they've found a cash cow and seem to be entranced by it.
On a side note, sometimes getting older feels like being in a Twilight Zone episode. Like I woke up and, for some reason everyone is calling records and 45s 'vinyls'.
Or I mention 'Cary Grant' and people just stare at me blankly because his memory has been erased from existence.
This Apple comment is one of those moments: it feels like yesterday Apple's talent for software was common knowledge, and suddenly today I'm in a parallel universe where Apple has always created buggy garbage.
I am saying that design is their forte and that their engineering culture is mostly focused around it, software is built to impress.
Their products are meant to be the final form, not a tool to build something else.
And this has implications for the quality of the code, fortunately they also inherited a lot from the Unix culture, but overall I've rarely been impressed by the quality of their software, and I've sometimes been appalled by it.
Itunes, Quicktime or the first iterations of OSX...