I think the decline is overstated. Couple related points-
- They at least offer updates, many other vendors offer few to none. Is that how you achieve quality? My wife's iPhone4S is still receiving updates and she's been happy with the device since 2011 to today. I've always used competitor's products and never achieved this. As a result, we will continue and increase our scope of purchases from Apple.
- Software is hard, many pieces of software that I've dug into I'm left amazed it even works.
I'm not outright dismissing this blog, but I wish it included who is the leader of software quality- since the statement is that it's not Apple.
My experience leads me to think that if they're an example of failing software, wow... what about the rest?
That's the vendors fault really, forcing their crap software onto the OS and not wanting to invest to keep things up to date to allow updates. Google and Microsoft both do regular updates to their OS, and if you go with a non-vendor phone (like Nexus), you'll get all those updates.
But yeah, the software situation from most phone vendors is atrocious.
- They at least offer updates, many other vendors offer few to none. Is that how you achieve quality? My wife's iPhone4S is still receiving updates and she's been happy with the device since 2011 to today. I've always used competitor's products and never achieved this. As a result, we will continue and increase our scope of purchases from Apple.
- Software is hard, many pieces of software that I've dug into I'm left amazed it even works.
I'm not outright dismissing this blog, but I wish it included who is the leader of software quality- since the statement is that it's not Apple.
My experience leads me to think that if they're an example of failing software, wow... what about the rest?