Marco Arment: Mac iOS software quality has taken a 'nosedive' | BGR

Marco Arment: Mac iOS software quality has taken a ‘nosedive’ | BGR

Instapaper creator Marco Arment is certainly one of the most read and widely influential Mac and iOS developers around. And when he says that there’s something seriously wrong with the way things have been going with Apple’s software lately, many people will take note. FLASHBACK: After a bad rollout for iOS 8.0.1, Apple has released iOS 8.0.2 In a new essay posted on his website , Arment offers a blistering critique of Apple’s latest software releases and then delivers the ultimate insult that would have made Steve Jobs weep: He compares some of the latest iOS and OS X software flubs to the mistakes that Microsoft repeatedly made with Windows. “We now need to treat Apple’s OS and application releases with the same extreme skepticism and trepidation that conservative Windows IT departments employ,” Arment writes. “[Apple’s] software quality has taken such a nosedive in the last few years that I’m deeply concerned for its future.

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