This is a triumph of marketing over QA - the oft-quoted Apple reality distortion field...

A senior electronics engineer where I used to work 'had to have' an iPhone, so one was duly supplied. He immediately had problems connecting reliably to Exchange to pick up his emails and after the IT support guys had tried several times to make it work more reliably, the phone was handed back with the (valid) comment that this was currently a 'known problem'.

The engineer's reply was that he didn't accept that response because it was an Apple product and they'd not have problems making something as simple as email 'just work'.

That doesn't sound like a very good engineer. I don't want to use a product from an engineer that decides by fiat that it works.

Yes, the infamous RDF is a known fact.

You must be new to apple products: launchd had problems running scheduled tasks for years, people resorted to installing anacron, when the Cisco VPS connection was released in snow leopard it was utterly broken, the first iteration of time capsule had thermal problems, most of those units are probably dead by now.

Why don't you tell your boss to provide you with the same perks and working conditions Apple or Google employees receive?

I would love to. But that might end up with me being fired :) Ego is a big thing to surmount.

You need to forward this comment to Scott Adams. He is always looking for PHB quotes.

If I'd be your boss I'd simply tell you to code like every single bit no matter how small will be used in a space shuttle, airplane or submarine. Forget about trying to be like some Google/Apple guy, just trying not to be the cause of the next Challenger-like disaster shoud be a nice starting point to produce quality code.