[idle_processor]

It feels like the author is giving Apple an undue free pass.

He mentions Microsoft and Yahoo as other companies who've failed him with bad releases, and the subtext seems to be that Apple hasn't done significant wrong.

To do so conveniently ignores how bad Windows versions of QuickTime, Safari, and iTunes have been at early stages.

[handelaar]

Early stages? All three are still crimes against product management today.

[idle_processor]

Agreed.

1) I'm not sure what made Apple feel that their video codec warranted a home in the control panel. I don't forgive DivX for this, either.

2) They put their personal aesthetic before usability in a big way. E.g., iTunes was unusably slow, though it's improved. Quicktime ran horribly. I am assuming this was in part due to wanting to use MacOS-style brushed-metal chrome.

[kumarm]

Early Stages? If MSFT Followed same standards as AAPL for software in their OS, AAPL would have been banned from writing software ever on Windows: http://javaswamy.blogspot.com/2010/03/hey-microsoft-how-abou...

[ootachi]

Don't forget MobileMe, Ping, and Final Cut Pro X. Even OS X Lion, to some extent (Mission Control). All of these happened under Jobs' watch.

[angryasian]

agree, also antennagate, 4S battery failures admitted to be a bug, tinted yellow screens on different apple products. All companies have their share of bumpy releases.

[dasil003]

I'm pretty sure MG just uses his Apple suite of devices for everything, so it's probably very hard for him to drum up any awareness of the problems with Apple stuff outside of that ecosystem.

It's hard for anyone to have the same bias about Google because there is no complete Google ecosystem yet, though they seem to be converging on it slowly, and from a software-only perspective.