On: Is Apple experiencing a problematic decline in sof...

[owenwil]

No, I don't think so. People are perceiving it that way because a few unrelated issues have cropped up lately. Coincidence, not correlation.

[gilgoomesh → owenwil]

I'm an iOS developer and I've filed 20 different API bugs with Apple for iOS 8 versus a previous record count of 7 that I filed against iOS 4.

This is anecdotal (I'm just one developer) but forum grumblings seem to confirm that lots of developers are seeing their apps broken by buggy changes in iOS 8.

[elpachuco → owenwil]

>>Coincidence, not correlation.

You probably mean not causation?

[pc2g4d → owenwil]

But coincidence is a type of correlation, is it not?

[acornax → pc2g4d]

Strong correlation requires a large number of 'coincidences'