Marco.org: Apple has lost the functional high ground 

This, a million times over:

The problem seems to be quite simple: they’re doing too much, with unrealistic deadlines.

We don’t need major OS releases every year. We don’t need each OS release to have a huge list of new features. We need our computers, phones, and tablets to work well first so we can enjoy new features released at a healthy, gradual, sustainable pace.

But I’m not sure I agree completely with Marco’s assessment that Apple’s hardware today “has never been better"—much like Apple’s obsession with releasing new, major software revisions every year, the release of a new iPhone and new iPad annually seems to have created a focus on always making thinner devices at the expense of all other interests. I think the industrial design of the iPhone 6 is significantly uglier than previous models, and I would have much rather had a better battery life and a non-protruding camera than I would have had the device slightly thinner than the previous model.