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by webwielder 4163 days ago
I continue to be flabbergasted that so many otherwise savvy observers believe that a random assortment of software annoyances constitutes a crisis at Apple. Articles like this could have been, and were, written at any time in the past fifteen years.
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Spooky23 4163 days ago
Apple is an incredibly mercurial company that sometimes gets too busy telling you what to do that they can't execute small things.

Look at poor iMovie, which has had most useful features stripped by this point. Or Pages, which actually broke file compatibility with little or no benefit. Or the situation with Wifi, which is a fuckup of monumental proportion.

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rab_oof 4163 days ago
On a mid 2012 13" non-retina (the 16 GiB hackable, 2 SSD one) MBP, fixed wifi by doing a clean Yosemite install, no transfer settings and then deleting network preferences plists. :(

Works, stable on 10.10.1. (Discoveryd mdns announce disablement doesn't flag doesn work at all though.)

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rab_oof 4163 days ago
Anecdotally, Yosemite (clean install) had an order of magnitude more breakage than Mavericks. YMMV. Perhaps we're so used to the unreasonable expectations of almost everything working that more breakage than usual precipitaes a whinefest "crisis" that gets picked up on TechCrunch as "news." That somehow Apple is "over" because of a few bugs that are fixed in the next patch release. (New releases are buggy, obviously. Best to wait for everyone else to sort them out or help catch them in beta.)
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bluthru 4163 days ago
Maybe. I kind of hope this groundswell spurs another "Snow Leopard" type release.
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jalfresi 4163 days ago
I hope so too. I really like the idea of Tick-Tock OS releases; first one is features, second one is performance/refactoring
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13 4163 days ago
It's something that is noticeable though. Rather than things just working and maybe a few bugs, it's buggy as hell and might just work. We have up to the second major update beta and the volume level overlay is still buggy (transparent corners are black) on a lot of Macs when the UI transparency is turned off. It feels like there's no quality control at all.
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rab_oof 4163 days ago
A lot of stuff works on Yosemite. It's not that bad or I would've migrated back to Mavs. YMMV.
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Cowicide 4162 days ago
> Yosemite. It's not that bad

Is that Apple's tagline for the product now?

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