I couldn’t agree more. I’ve watched the quality of Apple S/W deteriorate year after year for a decade or more. Cook was no champion of S/W quality. If this keeps up their software will become as bad a Microsoft’s 
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Chairman Steve ran Apple like a gladiator academy where he’d have the heads of the various divisions compete to see who could build the best X. No empire building was allowed in the various divisions as it was all Steve’s Empire and the only person allowed to do their own thing was Woz.
Nice Guy Tim couldn’t or wouldn’t rain the division heads in and the results is the mess that’s too big to fail we see today.
Now you tell me just as M. Lapin is converting me to iPhones. 
He was well trained " After graduating from Auburn University, Cook spent twelve years in IBM’s personal computer business" but he’s no visionary. He’s a process man, but he hasn’t been half as bad as I feared. 
@David_Spardo Don’t feel the (software) quality, feel the width Dave Even on its worst day Apple has never shipped software as bad as Microsoft has over forty plus years But that’s only a nerd to nerd debate.
For you and I, at our advanced years, a smart phone, as Jane said in another thread about her mum, can be a fabulous tool.
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Well it is my understanding is that it has private APIs with hidden features that are deliberately not documented, cf. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1773615/apple-and-private-apis
Yebbutt, it keeps contradicting what I want it to do, I get the distinct impression it is not me who is in charge.
Example, when I want to take a photo, it makes a video, all of its own volition. Very nice but I can’t take a screen shot of that, I have to jump through hoops to allow me to publish a bloody video instead.
Another example, even when I am permitted a wicked little photo the screen changes its face asking me what of half a dozen other things I want to do. 'I just want to take a bloody picture fer gawd’s sake, how hard can that be? 'But it doesn’t even blink.
I much prefer my camera (which I have now found, not 1 metre from where I am sitting, in spite of everywhere I searched over several days) but having that around my neck preventing all the other tasks such as steering a dog out of the sunlight, keeping his lead where I won’t trip on it and causing yet another national emergency and increasing the blood flow from numerous spiky and vicious plants (according to Packham this evening we all originate from the same gene so why pick on me, that’s cannibalism), is much harder than a thin little dodad which fits in my bag.
And breath. I think I might have become a little hysterical there. Time for bed. 
Yes, it’s true. There is a curse of too many options, for options sake, that make using the bloody things more difficult than it needs to be. Keep to the basics