Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : Nightfox
From : Spectre
Date : Tue Apr 19 2022 10:27:00

 Ar> generated by marketing rather than by actual product design. Apple
 Ar> customers have this idea that their products are so much easier to use
 Ar> than the competitor's but in this day and age any consumer-grade piece
 Ar>of electronics is a no-brainer to use.

 Ni> That's true.  Several years ago, at work at the job I had at the time, I
 Ni> was working on making some updates to a Mac sample app that our team had
 Ni> at the time.  I was using a MacBook for that at work, and I remember
 Ni> Apple's XCode occasionally crashing, and I was also using a Mac scripting
 Ni> program from Apple that would crash even more often.  It was a bit
 Ni> frustrating trying to work with tools like that..  Hopefully they've
 Ni> gotten better.

There was a time, Apple sold a complete package... owning its own hardware,
OS and a lot of its own software.  But you'd have to go back to the early
90's for the rest of this to be accurate.  At this stage Apple was noted for
producing remarkably bug free code and o/s, all the way to about MacOS8 not
sure about 9, and OSX was the real start of the rot.

Somewhere about there the Mac became an appliance in which the only interest
was selling more and more numbers.  The software development dropped off also
and they started pushing finished items out the door rather than tested
items.

Thats not to say they didn't put out some buggy software and even push out
the occasional hardware issue, but they were able to keep it a lot cleaner
than anyone else.  I don't believe you'll ever see a return to that Apple
Inc, its chosen its path and its a long way down it now.

Spec


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