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Originally posted by vuelve88
You may scoff and go into fanboy mode, but things like the Mountain Lion battery drainage problem and IOS 6 WiFi problem are signs of poor rush releases resulting from a desire to stay in line with the schedule of their product cycles.
Perhaps Apple could actually use a bigger team to ensure that quality control is at a suitable level.
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No ones going into fanboy mode. Apple has had these problems with EVERY release. Remember when (under SJ's guidance) they released MobileMe, iOS 2, the App Store, and the iPhone 3G all on one day and it was a mess for example.
An incomplete list of Apple mess ups over the years:
OS X 10.0 beta, a buggy, slow, significantly incomplete first-foot-forward for Apple's next big chapter
First MacBook Air, which was prohibitively expensive and never sold well. Public sightings, a staple of most Apple products, were quite rare until the major 2010 redesign
FaceTime for Mac beta
The iPhone 4 antenna controversy, which culminated in a surprise Apple press conference in which Steve Jobs had to explain how mobile phone antennas work, remind the world that really smart people work at Apple, and invite the press to tour Apple's mobile phone signals testing facilities. He also offered a free bumper to all iPhone 4 buyers for a limited time
iPod HiFi
The 500 MHz PowerMac G4 mess, where Apple demoed a 500 MHz machine but downgraded shipping models to slower speeds.
The G4 Cube
The Motorola ROKR, thanks to Gdubs in the comments
The first 15-inch aluminum PowerBook white spot problem
The 2008 iPhone 3G + IPhone OS 2.0 + MobileMe + App Store launch disaster, for which Jobs wrote an internal company criticism and apology
Siri released in iOS 5 as a public beta
The original iPhone sold for $500 and $600 in 2007. But Apple dropped both prices by $200 just two months after release, then issued all early buyers refunds and store gift cards
The FileVault data loss problem introduced in 2003 with OS X
Panther
A very scratch-able screen on the original iPod nano that resulted in a class-action lawsuit
Ping
iMovie 08, which made enough users so mad that Apple had to make the previous version, iMovie HD, available for download for free