{"id":15928,"date":"2016-10-04T16:52:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T20:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15928"},"modified":"2016-10-05T13:49:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T17:49:05","slug":"a-declining-trajectory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/04\/a-declining-trajectory\/","title":{"rendered":"A Declining Trajectory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Gemmell<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

We’d jump if we could. Even that statement alone is arresting for me.<\/p>\n

Another year, another OS version, and another batch of broken things that had finally reached a stable state just a few months before. Another set of new things that are of passing interest at most, with their own byzantine quirks yet to be ironed out.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Courage<\/em> is apparently what it takes to remove a headphone port<\/a>, according to Phil Schiller. I can only imagine which laudable value might lead to slowing down, making the upgrade cycle biennial, and focusing once again on quality and dependability above all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update (2016-10-05): Bernd Haug<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It’s really, really sad because it’s really, really true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I don’t agree with @mattgemmell on everything here, but I’d say his big-picture characterization is right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Matthew Bischoff<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Apple is right that it has a perception problem with its software quality. But it’s the internal perception that’s the problem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Gemmell (Hacker News): We’d jump if we could. Even that statement alone is arresting for me. Another year, another OS version, and another batch of broken things that had finally reached a stable state just a few months before. Another set of new things that are of passing interest at most, with their own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1143,31,1380,30,1381,1212],"class_list":["post-15928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-software-quality","tag-ios","tag-ios-10","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-12","tag-watchos"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15934,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15928\/revisions\/15934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}