{"id":1277,"date":"2016-02-09T11:31:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T15:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2016-02-09T11:31:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T15:31:25","slug":"marketing-is-too-high-a-priority-at-apple-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"Marketing is Too High a Priority at Apple Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hiltzik\/la-fi-mh-apple-users-really-hate-apple-software-20160208-column.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link<\/a><\/p>\n

Conjectures about why Apple can’t get its software act together abound. The most common is that the company has become so trapped in its cycle of annual hardware upgrades — a new iPhone had better appear every September, or else — that it’s simply incapable of keeping its software maintained. Programmer Marco Arment, in a widely-read comment<\/a>\u00a0last year, speculated that “the rapid decline of Apple\u2019s software is a sign that marketing is too<\/em>\u00a0high a priority at Apple today<\/strong>: having major new releases every year is clearly impossible for the engineering teams to keep up with while maintaining quality. … They\u2019re doing too much, with unrealistic deadlines.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hiltzik\/la-fi-mh-apple-users-really-hate-apple-software-20160208-column.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link Conjectures about why Apple can’t get its software act together abound. 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