{"id":28005,"date":"2020-01-31T16:29:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T21:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28005"},"modified":"2020-02-06T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T20:00:34","slug":"2019-six-colors-apple-report-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/31\/2019-six-colors-apple-report-card\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Six Colors Apple Report Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2020\/01\/apple-in-2019-the-six-colors-report-card\/\">Jason Snell<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jsnell\/status\/1223312706226343942\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2020\/01\/apple-in-2019-the-six-colors-report-card\/\">\n<p>Glenn Fleishman said, &ldquo;Catalina was a disastrous release.&rdquo; John Siracusa said, &ldquo;Apple has not done a good job communicating the benefits of Catalina, an update that&#8230; comes with more pitfalls than the average macOS update.&rdquo; Joe Kissell said, &ldquo;Catalina was, and continues to be, a real downer in terms of missing features, bugs, and overall quality.&rdquo; Andrew Laurence said, &ldquo;For the first time in my career, this IT professional warns users away from the new macOS, and took action to prevent users from installing it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>John Gruber said, &ldquo;Catalina clearly bends too far in the direction of security. By design, it&rsquo;s just too inconvenient [&#8230;] I don&rsquo;t know a single expert Mac user who is not seriously annoyed by the heavy-handed security design of Catalina&#8230; I genuinely fear for the future of the Mac as a platform for serious computer users&#8230;. Not one thing about Mac software got better in 2019 and everything that did change made it worse.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Rich Mogull said, &ldquo;The new [iPhone] models are home runs.&rdquo; [&#8230;] Finally, several panelists mentioned the idea that Apple needs to add a smaller phone to its portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Drang said, &ldquo;Despite years of urging from iPad users, Apple still doesn&rsquo;t seem to understand how much we want to do &lsquo;real computer things&rsquo; on this device.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In any event, the iOS 13 and macOS Catalina release cycles&#8230; were not appreciated by the panel. If this survey measures general sentiment, the general sentiment is that Apple needs to turn around its flailing software process in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Paul Kafasis said, &ldquo;Notarization [of macOS apps] has thus far worked better than I might have expected&#8230;. So long as Apple uses a very, very light touch with this, it can be a win for users and developers. Nevertheless, I live in fear of a capricious use of this to kill something legitimate that Apple simply dislikes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/29\/2018-six-colors-apple-report-card\/\">2018 Six Colors Apple Report Card<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"id-2019-six-colors-apple-report-card-update-2020-02-04\">Update (2020-02-04): <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/01\/31\/jason-snells-six-colors-annual-apple-report-card-wearables-ace-it-software-quality-needs-summer-school\/\">Zac Hall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/01\/31\/jason-snells-six-colors-annual-apple-report-card-wearables-ace-it-software-quality-needs-summer-school\/\">\n<p>I thought I&rsquo;d share my verbatim responses with 9to5Mac readers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/linked\/jason-snells-2019-apple-report-card\/\">Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/linked\/jason-snells-2019-apple-report-card\/\">\n<p>I&rsquo;ve included my full responses to Snell&rsquo;s questionnaire below.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2020\/02\/2019-apple-scorecard\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2020\/02\/2019-apple-scorecard\/\"><p>There is a small but admirable thing Jason does with his graph of overall scores. I didn&rsquo;t notice it until this year, but it&rsquo;s been the case for as long as he&rsquo;s been doing the report card.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"id-2019-six-colors-apple-report-card-update-2020-02-06\">Update (2020-02-06): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2020\/02\/my_2019_apple_report_card\">John Gruber<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Snell (tweet): Glenn Fleishman said, &ldquo;Catalina was a disastrous release.&rdquo; John Siracusa said, &ldquo;Apple has not done a good job communicating the benefits of Catalina, an update that&#8230; comes with more pitfalls than the average macOS update.&rdquo; Joe Kissell said, &ldquo;Catalina was, and continues to be, a real downer in terms of missing features, [&hellip;]<\/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":"2020-01-31T21:30:00Z","apple_news_api_id":"4cce2199-e73d-46f3-a6fe-2f51cff31506","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-02-06T20:00:37Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ATM4hmec9RvOm_i9Rz_MVBg","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":[1422,1788,126,1143,615,992,1621,1326,16,913,31,1667,145,1814,1815,85,1872,1873,423,30,652,100,1666,1842,247,1812],"class_list":["post-28005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airpods","tag-apple-card","tag-applemail","tag-apple-software-quality","tag-apple-tv","tag-apple-watch","tag-marzipan","tag-homekit","tag-icloud","tag-icloud-drive","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-ipad","tag-ipados","tag-ipados-13","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-11","tag-iphone-11-pro","tag-keyboard","tag-mac","tag-mac-pro","tag-macbookpro","tag-macos-10-15","tag-notarization","tag-siri","tag-swiftui"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28005","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=28005"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28057,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28005\/revisions\/28057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}