Critique of Apple's declining software quality under Tim Cook's leadership
By
Tony Mattke
Toasted to a respectable shade. No regrets, no crumbs left.
Summary
A critical opinion piece arguing that Apple's software quality has severely declined under Tim Cook's leadership, citing daily frustrations like AirPods connecting to wrong devices, slow iMessage syncing, HomeKit failures, and a degraded System Settings UI. The author contends these aren't dramatic failures but persistent, small degradations that prove Apple has stopped caring about user experience quality. The article suggests Tim Cook's departure would be positive for Apple's future.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledYour AirPods just connected to the wrong device. Again.
These aren't dramatic failures. They're worse than dramatic failures. They're daily proof that somewhere along the way, Apple stopped caring about the texture of using its own products.
System Settings, which used to be one of the cleanest preferences UIs ever shipped, now feels like a bad Electron app pretending to be macOS.
iMessage is taking twenty minutes to sync a message between your laptop and your phone sitting six inches apart.
HomeKit forgot the kitchen lightbulb exists, and will remember it again in three hours like nothing happened.
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