> I call on Apple to return to its roots - creating products that prioritize user experience over feature checklists. The company that once proudly created products that "just work" needs to reclaim that ethos.
But this is a mythic past, not the real one, embarrassing software bugs have always been present! Moreover, it's never been limited to just software, remember premium laptop keyboard design fiasco, for example.
That's not true in my experience. I started at Apple in 1995 and user experience was king. Honestly, Jobs return was more or less the start of the decline (but, not of the stock price of AAPL of course).
Why did Apple engineering culture decline then? It became top-down, no longer bottom-up.
But this is a mythic past, not the real one, embarrassing software bugs have always been present! Moreover, it's never been limited to just software, remember premium laptop keyboard design fiasco, for example.