No, not like their recent keyboards. But exactly like almost every model of their laptops, most of their desktops, their servers, their phones, tablets, watches, NAS/routers and set-top boxes. Every year, for >30 years.
Which laptops? The ones that could be made to repeatedly kernel panic due to GPU issues, that Apple denied was an issue until shown otherwise? Or the ones with the logic board issues? Or the ones with battery issues that caused burns? Or the SSD failures? Or the T2 issues that cause repeated kernel panics?
> their servers
As novel as the Xserver might have been, let's not pretend it was anything more than an unimaginably small surface area for a product
Apple makes well-designed products, mostly. But let's pump the brakes on the idea that everything that comes out of Cupertino is flawless, as you seem to imply.
Apple's got a lot of surface area, and a pretty damn good track record.
Who else is doing what they're doing? No other consumer hardware company goes top-to-bottom from the software to the chip, and no other company has such a cohesive ecosystem. Google EOLs a product once a week, Microsoft is making some nice stuff these days, but is nowhere near the same experience ("Windows is like a bundle of drivers", as in the article).
There is value to being prescriptive over their platform. It gives them skin in the game to make things good; they are much less willing to just blame a vendor.
I've owned 4 of their laptops in the past 5 years (not my choice) and all of them ended in the trash for different reasons that did not depend on me. Maybe the phones are better, I have never owned one.
Ok most companies make some bad products and most companies have some top notch products. Is Apple any different?
How?? I'm on a macbook air from 2011 and an iphone SE from 2012. Do you just pour soda all over them? Or has their laptop quality dipped in the last four years? I know that the butterfly keyboards were having all kinds of issues, but I wouldn't trash a computer over that, they would probably replace the keyboard.
One failed motherboard or smth like that, one because of display issues + keyboard, 2 because of keyboard become unusable. All MacBook Pros. A couple could not be serviced (>2 years old), one could not be fixed, one I changed job (to be fair, I don't know what happened with that one, they may have fixed it).
In comparison, the cheapest laptop I have ever owned (EEEPC) lasted more than 10 years.