Most of the articles I've read on Apple software quality seem like larger industry wide issues to me. For example with the iTunes issue mentioned in this article this is a problem that every metadata / library based media player has to deal. If you let more than one app touch your audio files then you're pretty much guaranteed to have problems. Different apps/services may not write or sort on the same tags. No one's fault exactly just the way things are. The example of dictionary / thesaurus lookup moving to a system wide text service is an instance of a feature clearly being improved but if the users aren't aware it changed is that really an improvement? The entire industry sucks at user education. There's no good reason every major software developer shouldn't have hours and hours of free training/how-to videos available for users to cope with change. For the issue of GMail SMTP rejecting iWork file format attachments it's the industry wide problem of users being stuck between the best interests of various companies. Apple wants to change/improve the iWork format but Google wants to protect users from files it can't scan. Again no one is really at fault it's just the way things are.
I disagree. Companies are at fault here. It's apple's job to test common use cases, such as sending emails through common 3rd party services. And it is googles job to send the files its users wish to send.
I would agree. Has anyone tried to upload a file such as a CV to a website using Safari? It's impossible - the file selection "browse" button area is entirely MISSING. As local file access is not possible on the iPad, they just pretend it doesn't exist and you have to resort to installing bloated massive stupid apps to work around a daft problem within Safari.
I think they have issues all over the chart. We've had severe problems with changes in Safari's handling of javascript. Other have had problems with network connections etc. There seems to be a number of problem in many places.
