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To elaborate on your example: Apple's Mail.app has always been vaguely shit. Every major rev of OS-X always introduces a new way in which Mail.app fails.

> in Apple's case, they hate to admit anything can possibly be wrong in perfect-town Apple.

Bingo. And that's exactly what the article is talking about. Things that a company or programmer has the ability to fix _now_ just don't get done.



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