This is a problem.
The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe | Denis Stetskov, From The Trenches
— Owen Gregorian (@OwenGregorian) April 21, 2026
The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.
Not used. Not allocated. Leaked. A basic calculator app is hemorrhaging more memory than most computers had a decade ago.
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It would be a good use of your time to read the whole thing. He describes problem that has a number of perfectly acceptable solutions and fixes that would correct the problem and goes on to show that virtually none of the solutions will be implemented and that nobody will even try to implement one. It is really quite sad but predictable what happened at Apple after Jobs died there. There is literally nobody running the top 3 tiers there who cares about the customer or the product except as a method to put money in their pockets.
My own solution to this problem has been a very low level campaign of rejection. Starting even back when Mr. Jobs was alive and turning out awesome products, I wasn't buying cutting edge. My unique philosophy was that only an idiot would stand in line all night to buy the latest and greatest iphone or very best top of the line computer systems that came with a brand new OS. When my 14 year old Workbook Pro died I replaced it with a 12 year old Workbook Pro which has served me very well these last 4 years. My phone was an iPhone4 but I upgraded a couple of years ago to an iPhone 8 because the networks purged my phone's ability to connect to their networks.
The hidden underlying and unstated reason for this wholesale rejection of cutting edge tech was not the prices blowing through the roof but the disdain for 99% of the 'improvements' that were making the new stuff not better....for me. I don't need it.
This kind of reminds me of watching the Tactical Action Officer simply reach out and hit 'reject' every time the satellite navigation system updated our geographic location on the planet. Mind you, he was rejecting the navigation data that showed where we actually were on the planet and he did it over and over again.
"Why"
"We have 300 sonobuoys out there, all shown in our master plot relative to where we thought we were back when they were dropped. If we let the system change our position it will adjust all of them too."
Since we were hunting Soviet ballistic missile submarines very quietly this seemed, on the face of it, reasonable. As I thought it over though the obvious question floated to the top and wondered, 'what kind of idiot designs a navigation system that seamlessly adjusts everything on a plot just because the master reference location shifted?
Obviously, its exactly the thing a software developer would do and never think twice about. Our ability to guide sensors to target based on a relative plot would be destroyed the instant we converted it to a true plot.
Nevertheless, it used to gall me that I all of Microsoft Word 4.0 fit on a single floppy disk and that it has now grown into such a kluge of a tool that it takes over your entire computer. Fortunately for me, when Microsoft destroyed my ownership of Office I simply gave it up and went elsewhere for my software needs. That was over 30 years ago and I never looked back.
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