In hindsight, the trouble began in 2012. That’s when Apple moved OS X to the same yearly release cycle as iOS. Since OS X has always been the Peter that Apple robbed to pay Paul (the iOS release cycle), I was concerned Apple would be writing checks it couldn’t cash.

Later that year, iOS 6 was released with the whole Maps debacle. That fiasco, however, was easy to write off because Maps was so new, and any new mapping service was going to pale in comparison to Google. Given strained relations between Apple and Google, Apple had no choice but to divorce itself from Google Maps, as painful as that was for users.

2013 wasn’t any better for Apple. iOS 7 had massive battery drain and Wi-Fi connection issues, and Mavericks, released a month latter, had some well-documented issues with Gmail.

So far 2014 is like…