Apple is Full of Bugs

We used to think that a company which makes its own hardware, software, and firmware, creates products that work smoothly without problems.

While this is true compared to Windoze and its myriad of PC and conflicts of software and hardware, it is become much less true in terms of being issue and bug free.

This author has amassed a great many Apple Mac, iPhone and Watch bugs over the years, and used to faithfully report them to Apple Customer Service.

However, seeing that there is no reward for trying to fix things that Apple should most often have gotten right in the first place, he now keeps them to himself.

I did demonstrate a very annoying Settings bug to technical support staff at a major Authorized Repair centre in South East Asia. This bug has been around for years, and Apple does not even seem to be aware of it.

Staff were very worried when it affected their iPhones when they tried to change the relevant settings and could not get them back to normal, but, I also know the workaround how to resolve it without performing a reset and restore.

But this is just one out of countless examples. Apple Authorized Repair agents have confided in me all sorts of issues, such as that Apple's ratings for water resistance are just advertising, as well as their device drop ratings. They'd not risk it themselves.

Others have disclosed that they are fed up of working with inferior quality products from Apple that are declining year after year, and the headaches the cause, and are now planning to quit the business and open alternative businesses instead.

Of course, long-time Apple customers are also largely voting with their feet, seeing the Company in such decline from its hey days, and opting for other products.

Apple now focuses on those customers who are new and subject to the marketing hype, especially Generation Zed and Post-Human-Generation Alpha Beta One.

Those young ones simply want a device that LOOKS good, is slippery as an eel, and can provide endless configurations for endless gender identities, color preferences, and widgets and menus that can satisfy their endless configuration desires.

For the rest of us, especially the professionals, who rather would prefer Apple would focus on making EXISTING features actually work bug free, such as allowing a Watch to be used with multiple phones via timely Health sync, we are out of luck.