Comment by ksec

I remember I last counted iOS and macOS features in 2022, since 2012 I barely count 5 features that is useful to me.

Without Steve Jobs, everyone work with their own incentives, if shipping features is how you get promotion and raise. That is what we end up with.

I know this is controversial take on HN. 10 years spend on Swift and SwiftUI. It would have been better if we continue some small and iterative improvement with both C23 and Objective C.

Every year we see Apple SoC improvements, but my iOS or macOS is still not instantaneous. Safari 18 got better, and now 26 as well. But comparatively speaking it is still behind Chrome and Firefox in terms of responsiveness, and resource usage.

In terms of Design, the Home Screen is still a mess.

Compare to Old Apple, new Apple's rate of improvement and productivity has dropped significantly , with double or triple the resource but half of the execution in terms of Software. ( Hardware they are doing fine if not exceptional )

But if Apple software is really this bad, it just shows Microsoft and Google have been absolutely appalling in the past 10-20 years.