Maybe I’ve been lucky but I haven’t noticed a deterioration of software quality in MacOS. Things have been stable, perhaps even improved overall. Also the UI overall is extremely snappy, but likely that’s because of the M-series architectures.

I recall 10 years ago (circa 2012) I’d purchase a brand new MacBook Pro and things would have a small but frequent lag in many UI across the OS. And no, not only during initial sync. It would be a normal part of the “experience”.

Haven’t noticed any such thing especially with M-series in recent years.

Apple's hardware -- especially the M-series processors -- has been excellent lately. On the software side, it feels to me like there's been a large falloff in quality. This story is a good example of that, and I'd really love if we could get a release of macOS that focuses on bug fixes.

I’m going to put whatever did I or didn’t happen here aside and marvel for a moment at how complicated it must be to coordinate the logistics behind managing release schedules of both hardware and software and preinstalling OSs on all these machines.

There's a tweet exemplifies the state of Apple software, and Apple's attention to it: https://twitter.com/krzyzanowskim/status/1707684940337283563

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Did it annoy anybody else that during the whole event they compared M3 to M1 as if M2 didn't exist? Guess they didn't think 5-10% improvement would market well? But does anybody in their target audience even care or do they just buy the new hardware anyway?