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A comment on Apple’s declining software quality. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s declining software quality by knughit on Thursday February 04, 2016 @11:06AM (#11034848)
He went on stage and gave a sock presentation that made everyone forget about the bugs. Users judged the book by it's well-kerned prettily animated cover.

This is the same old tripe about the young generation's moral decline, and rose-tinted rearview glasses.

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Re:Apple’s declining software quality by glhaynes on Thursday February 04, 2016 @11:24AM (#11035000)
Imagine how many "this never would've happened if Steve were still alive" articles would be written if the iTunes 13 installer were to delete users' entire hard drives like iTunes 2's did (http://www.wired.com/2001/11/glitch-in-itunes-deletes-drives...).
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Re:Apple’s declining software quality by DigitalJack on Thursday February 04, 2016 @11:18AM (#11034949)
Exactly this. Snow leopard was a great release in terms of quality, but leopard wasn't.

Many releases had critical flaws that needed a point release in less than 2 weeks.

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