The Apple indie dev community is undergoing an identity crisis. For decades, whatever Apple said was good, was good. People mostly agreed with their ethics, design priorities, way of doing business.

Now that all of that has, well, severely degraded, it leaves us in the dark. The north star is gone.

@Cykelero Yeah, I set the bozo bit on Apple a couple of years ago.

And I didn't do it consciously either.

But nowadays when there is new software from Apple, my assumption is that it will be broken. Both obviously and subtly.

Apple had their "come to Jesus" moment on the hardware front some years ago. They got rid of Jonny Ive and gave us Apple Silicon.

Which is awesome.

Now I want to see the same in software.

https://blog.metaobject.com/2023/01/setting-bozo-bit-on-apple.html

Setting the Bozo Bit on Apple

The other day I was fighting once again with Apple Music. Not the service, the app. What I wanted to do was simple: I have some practice ...

@mpweiher True! The big hardware quality reversal gives hope for something similar with software.
@Cykelero Case in point: just got a new Mac mini. Lovely hardware, but every attempt to migrate from my old mini failed. No useful error message, nothing to diagnose.