I have been an Apple user since the early 1980s. I would consider myself an advanced user. I am a Web Applications Developer who pushes his OS and computer pretty hard.

I have heard quite a lot lately about the decline of Apple's software quality. Marco's piece linked above is a good read and he is not alone in claiming Apple's quality is declining. There is one thing that really confuses me about all this:

I can't see anything wrong.

I'm running the latest OSX and iOS, use multiple Apple apps (Calendar, Pages, Keynote, iPhone, etc. I don't use Mail however) as well as various other third-party apps. I store data on iCloud. Despite using my computer 8 hours a day every day, I really can't see any of these various issues people talk about.

I have a feeling for every person who experiences a particular bug, there are millions who don't experience that bug.

While people may look back at Apple from 10 years ago and say the quality was much better then, Apple of today is doing much more advance things.

I do agree that Apple needs to use their rapid release cycle to fix bugs, not push out new features which may not be fully ready.

What are your thoughts?