> On the other hand, it is telling that Apple gave priority to iOS.
Maybe not. It could just be that OSX has a higher testing effort. There is a bigger spread of versions across the OSX platform than iOS. And also Apple does have quite a few hardware specific builds of OSX they need to test.
I find this hard to believe. After using 10.8 and 10.9 over the last year, the sheer number of bugs is embarrassingly high. Every day, something was breaking for me. They have a serious QA problem i.e. they're either doing it wrong or not at all.
On OS X, only Mavericks is affected (10.8 is fine), which should reduce the number of software SKUs affected. Although their insistence on making it free & compatible with as many Macs as possible does mean around 46% of all Macs in use today are affected.
Honestly, iOS got it first because it's used by more people. And it's been clear for the last few years that Apple doesn't have two proper teams working on each OS. Which is ridiculous for a company of Apple's size.
Maybe not. It could just be that OSX has a higher testing effort. There is a bigger spread of versions across the OSX platform than iOS. And also Apple does have quite a few hardware specific builds of OSX they need to test.
Still completely unacceptable though.