The bill for this has been coming since Apple figured out they could upsell everyone to backup their iPhones and add a new line to their revenue statement for Wall Street - back then we talked a lot about Apple becoming a _services_ company like Google, having values like shipping iteratively with scheduled stable releases with feature flags to enable/disable landmines in the field.
Today, "services" means Apple has a button at the top of the Settings app...for Apple TV Plus, meanwhile macOS is so neglected you cant drag files into folders anymore and iOS has had historically unstable releases 2 of the last 3 years.
All that to say, it takes a while for chickens to come home to roost, and we _just_ started taking steps in that direction. Direct action like this is unlikely, but its the beginning of 1000 people making 1000000 small decisions that will amplify accountability.
3) That's not what their head of software though when they used iOS 12 to catch up on debt from a bad iOS 11 [1], and iOS 13 was panned as the buggiest release of all by The Verge. [2] Apple released updates every week or two for _3 months straight_ to try and patch it up. [3]
Your tone indicates you don't actually want an answer to this, but, iOS 2-6 went well, iOS 8/9/10 good/very good/good.
4) Mindless cheerleading of dollars has led to the crossroads Apple is at.
Today, "services" means Apple has a button at the top of the Settings app...for Apple TV Plus, meanwhile macOS is so neglected you cant drag files into folders anymore and iOS has had historically unstable releases 2 of the last 3 years.
All that to say, it takes a while for chickens to come home to roost, and we _just_ started taking steps in that direction. Direct action like this is unlikely, but its the beginning of 1000 people making 1000000 small decisions that will amplify accountability.