[Personal opinion] OS X and iOS: Why so hard, Apple?

Have you noticed that with OS X and iOS is something that is not in the last few years? A rhetorical question, of course. Many Yabloko readily agree with this, and the enthusiasm with which they have recently touted "fruit" technique in front of friends, sometimes markedly pougas. Sometimes it comes to that catchphrase "Plug and Play" embarrassing to say. Why are things going?

Take a look at this video. It compares a standard user interface for smooth operation graphical Mac OS X 10.4 and OS X 10.10. Most tsimes that "Tiger" operating in collected in 2007. "Hackintosh" with integrated graphics, which Apple even had their driver does not support. A "Yosemite" is set on a good MacBook Pro with Retina display, released in late 2013. As they say, feel the difference:

The author writes that the comparison entirely unscientific - he just put two cars together and clicked around on the same interface elements both of operating systems. But there is a logical question: What do these bobuynya darling Apple?

How many sounded pompous words about how important for Apple to optimize the components of its products, which is excellent iron should only excellent OSes. These words gleefully picked up users and carried the light into the dark mass of his "vindonutyh" friends. And that's what we do on a Mac at the beginning of 2015: overweight OSes, which is significantly inferior to the speed of its predecessor. And in fact Apple has taught us that each new version of the software product on the same "iron" should work faster and more stable.

About this theme recently I wrote the creator of Instapaper Marco ArmentOver the past few years, Apple products too became clearly felt by marketing "flavor". "By releasing new versions every year, engineers [Apple] is absolutely impossible to keep the level of quality at the same level", - says Marco. Remember how long it took Yabblu to conduct a comprehensive optimization of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, so that the next version of the system, "Snow Leopard", deserve to work on the old "iron"? Without the two weeks for two years. With that, and for the development of the "Leopard" it took about the same time.

How many sounded pompous words about how important for Apple to optimize the components of their products because it is... Apple has taught us that each new version of the software product on the same "iron" should work faster and stable.

"We do not need the annual releases of the OS - Arment writes further - and do not need long lists of new features. We need computers, tablets and smartphones, which primarily will just work well, and then we can enjoy the new "buns", which would go from normal, at reasonable intervals. "

Although Arment very cautious in terms - especially when too violent reaction to his post by the US media to awaken the crowd of adepts Apple sunset - I personally with his basic idea ready agree. It seems, Apple is too fascinated by "arms race", annually releasing new versions of the device with new versions of operating systems. Most of the features in them are really interesting, and sometimes useful - but who needs a functional diversity, achieved at the cost of a significant loss of quality?

On the other hand, I have always maintained that Apple are not fools, and they can not afford to ignore the objective demands of its users. Maybe after such an intense build-up Apple functionality deepen again in the optimization of their products? Still, OS X 10.10 and iOS 8 too clearly distanced from the sample "apple" software, which the company has taught us over the last 15 years.

"We do not need the annual releases of the operating system... We need computers, tablets and smartphones, which, above all, will just have a good work"

Marco Arment

We've learned that ah devices work well and quickly with multiple OS consecutive generations. And now it seems that a little more, and, instead of installing the regular version of the OSes, every year will have to change the "apple" of the technique as a whole, to at least maintain the same speed work. And all that over one year, from the "basins of windows" and "ondroedov" will differ only by case design and the operating system. Just a nightmare switcher and labor-yablofaga. :)

For Apple, now is the time to sit down again to work on the mistakes and dispel the doubts that have become too palpable. It's bad enough that many users remain on the "stub" only because other options are worse. And the very concept of the "It just works" too good and relevant, to give up for the sake of it "pure marketing."