I suggest that everyone here stop submitting Feedback Assistant/Radar reports. Let teenagers, college students, adults and old people buy a new Mac, experience the bugs and lack of polish and let it affect Apple's brand, consumer's preferences, and their market behavior. Apple is too big to care about anything other than market consequences. Apple is fully aware that no one likes the Radar system, that no one feels their reports count, they had an executive do a sort-of mea culpa years ago but nothing changed.
My AirPods keep going silent on my new Tahoe Mac and require a disconnect and reconnect. Will I report it? No. (Besides, if you report bugs like that, Apple collects a map of your entire filesystem, every path and filename). Apple shouldn't have fired their QA team. Let them deal with any brand damage, they've earned it. I mean, did Apple really not test their new OS with Slack, Zoom or VSCode? Really? Reckless.
They have like ~15% market share. Thats really tiny after all these years. I bet those people are mostly people who have been burned by Windows. What do you expect them to go to? Linux?
I find the stats vary wildly. I'm seeing it's up to 31% in the US [1].
https://www.computerworld.com/article/1624976/statcounter-da...
Linux actually works well .. maybe 2026 will be the year of [...]
it already is for me at least, because steam proton is excellent and distros are polished enough (still lacking in some edge cases, but windows is lacking more in other aspects)
>Apple is too big to care about anything other than market consequences.
I’d argue this applies to a very large proportion of companies out there, they don’t have to be huge to suffer from this affliction.
> I suggest that everyone here stop submitting Feedback Assistant/Radar reports.
We need an equivalent of the "Windows UX Taskforce” but for macOS/iOS (it was a website that pointed out and laughed at all the UI/UX flaws in Windows)
Too many Apple users consider Apple to be holy and will blame app vendors for OS bugs.
When said app authors use a private library that a Apple asked them to not use, is it really wrong to blame them?
From a Windows end-user perspective, the entity to blame for apps breaking after a Windows upgrade is Microsoft, even if the app was doing something it should not have [0].
[0] Search for "return policy" on https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost... .
This was clearly a vendor bug though.
Apple is a fashion brand, and Apple users buy it for that reason, not because of any technical merit.