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Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing? by redisman on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @04:49PM (#29898540)
OS is a good example. Recent MacOS and Linux are easily the highest quality OSes that have existed. iOS and Android are quite good too. Unless you go back to when OSes could be extremely simple.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing? by tick_tock_tick on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @06:05PM (#29899702)
> Recent MacOS

Is an example of a system going downhill fast. Critical bugs making it though whole beta into the final release. Hell remember https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-patches-severe-macos-big... from just last year?

MacOS quality has been on the decline as the focus has shifted to iOS.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing? by acmdas on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @05:45PM (#29899423)
There seem to be a lot of Apple users who wouldn't agree. My MacBook Pro is early 2011 so I haven't been able to use the newest, but I can't say that each upgrade from Lion to High Sierra was clearly an improvement for my use cases (writing and coding). YMMV.
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