A Little Rant

Every now and then I feel like just shouting into the wind.  It was easier when on a ship at sea, but sitting here is sometimes frustrating.  My faith in people has been drastically curtailed with my experience in the corporate arena.  I say that, even though most of the people I dealt with were retired or ex military, so when they showed the traits I would never expect of a person with the same background, it hurt.  So in the last few years, my faith in the government, my faith in people in general has been stress tested to its limits.

Off that tangent.  Today was an iOS and OSX update from Apple.  This is the second iOS update in so many weeks.  We gradually migrated over to the Apple way of life.  We first went over with the iPod, the revolution that started this new age of information dependence.  With the complexities involved with divorce and custody, we went to the cell phone quickly.  I made sure my daughter had a phone as early as possible.  We did Nokia, then went to the Razr.  We went to 3 different versions of Android, finally ending up with getting my daughter her iPhone.  I came over to the iPhone after we upgraded her iPhone.  I was sold.  Eventually, when my daughter needed a computer I went with the Apple.  So a MacBook Pro, a MacBook Air, and an iMac added to the iPhone, and iPod.  Then of course we added the iPad, the iPad2, then the newest iPad.  I went over to the iMac when my Sony desktop bit the dust, and have been sold over completely.  I have always loved using UNIX, but never really got hooked with Linux.  Loved the SunOS.  So when I started using my iMac and discovered xCode and my command line, I was really sold.  After iOS 5 came out everything changed and now we are an Apple family and have truly been sold over to the lifestyle.

So when this series of iOS updates came out fixing problems caused by the previous updates, I was really disappointed.  Part of the life change is that we support the hardware, to software uniformity so as to expect a higher level of performance and stability in our systems.  Even though the faults of the updates were truly minor, we that have sold our souls to the Apple mantra expect excellence.  I would have rather them miss an update timetable in order to fully test the functionality and performance of an update.  This in the Microsoft world might be expected and something you live with, but in the Apple world it is unacceptable.  So please, now is the time to adjust away from the Steve Jobs change the world method.  He already did that.  Now is the time for Tim Cook to make Apple the societal glue, that means quality products, fully trustworthy integration, and make customer support evolve into community support.  I believe if you do that you will be growing the world that Steve Jobs envisioned, and you will make our society and community better.