I continue to be flabbergasted that so many otherwise savvy observers believe that a random assortment of software annoyances constitutes a crisis at Apple. Articles like this could have been, and were, written at any time in the past fifteen years.
Apple is an incredibly mercurial company that sometimes gets too busy telling you what to do that they can't execute small things.
Look at poor iMovie, which has had most useful features stripped by this point. Or Pages, which actually broke file compatibility with little or no benefit. Or the situation with Wifi, which is a fuckup of monumental proportion.
On a mid 2012 13" non-retina (the 16 GiB hackable, 2 SSD one) MBP, fixed wifi by doing a clean Yosemite install, no transfer settings and then deleting network preferences plists. :(
Works, stable on 10.10.1. (Discoveryd mdns announce disablement doesn't flag doesn work at all though.)
Anecdotally, Yosemite (clean install) had an order of magnitude more breakage than Mavericks. YMMV. Perhaps we're so used to the unreasonable expectations of almost everything working that more breakage than usual precipitaes a whinefest "crisis" that gets picked up on TechCrunch as "news." That somehow Apple is "over" because of a few bugs that are fixed in the next patch release. (New releases are buggy, obviously. Best to wait for everyone else to sort them out or help catch them in beta.)
It's something that is noticeable though. Rather than things just working and maybe a few bugs, it's buggy as hell and might just work. We have up to the second major update beta and the volume level overlay is still buggy (transparent corners are black) on a lot of Macs when the UI transparency is turned off. It feels like there's no quality control at all.
Well until you find a way to give samples for taste and smell to your mobile users (good luck with that), I think that the visual side is what's left of it.
Even tho I agree with lots of other folks here about the fact that choosing a restaurant might require more data than just a couple nice pictures... as far as food itself go, a picture is what describes it best (worth a thousand words they say).
I cringed when I read that phrase. What about smell? are you going to eat food that looks great but smells bad?
The visual aspect of food is highly overrated, it mostly stems from pretentious restaurants that emphasis the importance of presentation.
I agree that food is visual, but other senses such as smell, texture are equally, if not more important than the visual aspect.
The idea for this application is not new and it seems to be only available for iOS (I'm on Android) only so I don't have much to say about it. When I want to find a nice place to eat food, word of mouth from friends or colleagues is what I use.
I was always impressed by this during several of his keynotes at QuakeCon the past few years. I believe it was 2012 when he was standing next to the chair talking and didn't seem to flinch for almost 2 hours straight.
