Apple Core Rot: More Views

2015-01-22 • SEND FEEDBACK |
Related: Apple, Apple Core Rot, Apple iOS, Apple iPhone and iPad, Apple macOS, Eastern Sierra, peak bagging, Photoshop, RAID, security, SoftRAID, usability, Yosemite

To MPG’s knowledge, MPG was the first to seriously raise the Apple Core Rot issue a year ago.

Some new coverage on Apple Core Rot on the web:

• Apple’s Software Quality, Continued (Michael Tsai)

What’s worse than a worm in an Apple?
Half a worm!

See also:

• Apple Core Rot (multiple pages)
• Forbes Magazine and Apple Core Rot

Waiter, there is a fly in every serving of Apple kitchen-sink soup these days, well actually in every ingredient that goes into Apple soup. Big complex operating systems with more and more superfluous eye candy lead to more and more security bugs and usability problems. It’s the way software works: more complexity = more bugs, period.

Virtually all of these issues persist months after OS X Yosemite was released. And no doubt will never be fixed, or perhaps will be replaced by new bugs as Apple arbitrarily breaks things and rips out good useful features by inreeasingly disprectful-to-users judgment. A few of these issues are very serious (security), and inexcusable.

• Spotlight: Brain-Dead Search Priorities
• Troubling Precedent: Apple Pushes Security Update Without User Permission (NTP Security Flaw)
• OS X Yosemite Update (10.1): Regularly Deletes the AppleMail VIP List
• Thunderbolt EFI Exploit
• Pathological Network Performance in Apple OS X
• A Pseudo-Security Trend: Password Reset and Locked Accounts
• OS X Yosemite Finder File Copy: Data Loss
• OS X Yosemite Update (10.1): Regularly Deletes the AppleMail VIP List
• OS X Yosemite: Update the SoftRAID Driver
• OS X Yosemite: Apple Kills TRIM for 3rd-Party SSDs, System Unbootable
• OS X Yosemite: Disable WiFi if Using Gigabit Ethernet
• OS X Yosemite Deletes Java / JDK, but Photoshop Needs It
• When the iPhone and Three Nearby Computers all Ring for a Phone Call, and is this a Privacy Issue?
• OS X Yosemite: Screen Bleed-Through for Images Impairs Perception
• Apple iCloud: Promiscous Saving for Security Lapses
• Static Problems on Input/Output with Some Macs?
• OS X Yosemite: Severe Performance Issues with File Open Dialog
• Patches for 'bash' Shell Vulnerability
• Apple to End 'Aperture' Support
• OS X File System Hang Bug
• Compressor: Needs some Bug Fixes
• OS X 10.9.2 Breaks Display Support with NEC Displays: Sleep, 90° Rotation Failure
• Major Security Flaw in Apple iOS and Apple OS X, Involves Fundamental TLS / SSL Security Protocols
• Video Card or Photoshop Bug? (graphics drawing glitch) (numerous graphics card driver crashes from bug-ridden graphics drivers in 2013 Mac Pro, lasting for half a year).
• OS X

There are dozens of other problems MPG can’t afford the time to document, many of which degrade usability each and every day, including severe performance issues in Photoshop, 4K display support issues, complete failing to support technologies available for years (10-bit color), and a general crapware approach to the system (and iOS). No ordinary user can now use a Mac in more than a basic way without needing an expert helper. Even using an iPhone via iTunes befuddles your author; it’s a kitchen-sink disaster of a user interface. It’s a sad commentary on the company which once rightly carried the standard of usability in computing.