One Hacker's Opinion: It's All About the PlayStation 4..And PS Vita and iOS Too! - The iOS 6 Woes Continue

Apple Lock Screen Bug a Sign of Poor Quality?

The entire iOS 6 series has certainly had a rough go with the public. With the first release, the public criticized the horrible Apple Maps, which the company thought they could fix through 6.1. In some cases this proved to be true but it only ushered in a series of other problems including connectivity issues on the 4S and now this very simple but strange glitch that allows users to entirely bypass the lock screen. To me, all of these stories combined serve to show that for one reason or another the quality of Apple software releases is starting to degrade. The real issue with me though is that these are all some very small and stupid glitches that are in many ways the equivalent of making careless errors on a math test.

So what (or who) is to blame for all of this? I think unfortunately it's very easy to point the finger in the direction of Tim Cook because we never saw so many bugs in the Jobs era, but I think in addition to this regime change there are also other forces at work too. The biggest of these is competitive pressure from folks like Android. The fact is, the GS3 in particular is breathing down Apple's neck constantly with more features and pretty comparative performance for a cheaper price.  This means that to combat these advances you need to quiet the news through software for now. In effect, this might mean putting out a final product sooner than you intended, which could lead to bugs. With Apple being a company that handles both the hardware and the software aspect of things, it can be a lot to handle under competition. Whether they will recover is anyone's guess, but we're certainly seeing  them start to buckle at this point.

That's all for this week, but I can assure you next week's edition will be a big one. PS4 announcement discussions coming? I can almost guarantee it. Until then though, this has been another week of One Hacker's Opinion. Be sure to leave a comment or two if you've got something to share!

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