Apple as a model for how to produce slick software? Once upon a time, perhaps -- but these days, surely you jest! The quality of their software has become abysmal. The latest versions of iMovie, Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, on the App Store, have a median user rating of one star. Tasks which I was routinely doing with those applications, 5 years ago, are now impossible. That's an intolerable situation.

Not saying you're wrong about Google, though. I'm sure the Pixel-C problems are quite real: I encountered all of them myself, when my Moto-G was essentially bricked by the update to Android 5 (think 10-to-30-second lag on every keypress).

These frustrations with my Apple computer and Google phone are almost bad enough to push me into the arms of Microsoft... or would be, if every interaction I had with Microsoft products didn't immediately show them to be even less competently executed than Apple or Google.