Bugs, Crashes Plague Apple Media Suite iLife's New Release

From DailyTech: Apple transformed itself over the last decade into one of the world's largest electronics makers by pumping out attractive products and maintaining a focus on trying to give its customers simpler, more reliable products. Unfortunately the reliability part of that equation seems to be vanishing of late. From its flagship phone having difficulty making calls without a protective case to iPads overheating when exposed to summer sunlight Apple has had perhaps more recent quality issues than any other major electronics manufacturer.

iLife 2011 is the latest edition of Apple's media suite, which includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iDVD, and iWeb. The software retails for $49.00. The latest iLife suite launched at Apple's "Back to Mac" event last week.

As our reader suggests, Apple's forums appear to be flooding with upset iLife buyers who are experiencing crashes, freezes, missing functionality and other annoyances.

Fortunately for Apple, the repercussions of its increasing quality issues may be less severe than for the average company. That's because a large contingent of Apple customers are unusually loyal and forgiving to the brand and have overlooked and defended its recent shortcomings. However, it's important to remember that not all Apple users are so fanatically forgiving. In fact many are not.

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