“Apple’s apparent lack of interest in providing a consistent experience for watch faces and complications is so puzzling,” Snell writes. “Let’s look at the Infograph faces, since they’re one of the highlights of the new, larger Series 4 display. They introduce a bunch of new complication types that take advantage of the extra space. But a lot of Apple Watch users have been surprised that they can’t add older complications to those faces. Apps need to be updated to explicitly support the new complication style, which was only introduced to developers on the day the Apple Watch Series 4 was announced.”
“It’s kind of hard to believe that Apple didn’t bother with some basic compatibility layer, something that lets the old complications work in the new space until there’s time for an update,” Jason Snell writes for Macworld. “Even more bonkers is the fact that Apple didn’t update some of its own apps to support the new complication format. If you’re someone who wants to keep quick access to the Messages app on an Infograph watch face, you can’t. Apple just dropped the ball.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Inexplicable.
Unless you consider how and why mismanagement occurs, that is.
Now, this is a minor thing in the scheme of things (although indicative of ongoing issues roiling just beneath the trillion-dollar surface), but on bigger issues (see articles below), heads should have rolled, but didn’t – and that’s a major reason why Apple cannot for years now get a handle on quality control.
(Again, the company’s share price can continue to rise and the quality of the products and user experience can decline – TO A POINT! – the two are not mutually exclusive until the product quality/user experience decline reaches the tipping point. We are far from that; today, we are but canaries in the coal mine, chirping now for 4+ years.)
People can get complacent, lazy, and slipshod. Trying to bury them in RSUs doesn’t seem to be very effective, Tim. Lopping off a few significant scalps and tacking them to the company bulletin board, now that can work wonders.
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again. — B.F. Skinner
SEE ALSO:
Siri Shortcuts can’t even launch the Nike Run Club app, despite Apple selling Nike-branded Apple Watches for years – September 18, 2018
The MacBook Pro’s throttling issues are fixed, but Apple hasn’t solved its biggest problem: Quality control – July 25, 2018
Apple CEO Tim Cook plummets in Glassdoor’s tech CEO rankings – June 20, 2018
Tim Cook: ‘Maybe we should have been clearer’ over throttling iPhones with aging batteries – January 18, 2018
Apple product delays have more than doubled under CEO Tim Cook – January 5, 2018
Apple CEO Tim Cook paid close to $102 million for fiscal 2017 – December 28, 2017
At Tim Cook’s Apple, Steve Jobs is long gone, and so is the ‘it just works’ ethos – December 19, 2017
Tim Cook’s sloppy, unfocused Apple rushes to fix a major Mac security bug – November 29, 2017
Under ‘operations genius’ Tim Cook, product delays and other problems are no longer unusual for Apple – November 20, 2017
Apple CEO Tim Cook: The ‘operations genius’ who never has enough products to sell at launch – October 23, 2017
Apple’s Tim Cook reaped $145 million last year, most of S&P 500 CEOs – June 30, 2017
Apple CEO Tim Cook plummets 45 spots in employee ratings – June 22, 2017
Who has taken over at Apple? – April 5, 2017
Walt Mossberg: Apple’s software needs work – February 3, 2016
Open letter to Tim Cook: Apple needs to do better – January 5, 2015
Apple CEO Tim Cook falls from 1st to 18th in Glassdoor’s tech CEO rankings – March 15, 2013
