Apple seems to have really degraded in software quality lately. I updated my iPhone 5 to iOS 6.01 yesterday. It was weird enough that iOS 6.0 needed a separate app to be downloaded which would restore OTA updates. But the update said it fixes some LTE issues where the radio doesn’t reliably connect to the network. I have encountered that issue and thought this update would fix it. Guess what? My LTE is gone. My iPhone 5 now only gets download speeds of 0.5MBPs or less. In comparison my iPhone 4S used to get 3MBPs on 4G. And it’s way less than my LTE speeds of 30MBPs. Here’s a table that shows my speeds before upgrading to iOS 6.01 and after.
This is just bad. What kind of a software company releases a patch to fix an issue and ends up breaking stuff on the latest hardware? Of course, this is probably not a 100% repro or it wouldn’t have been released. So YMMV.
Bad maps, low software reliability, easily scratching body, unnecessary upgrades to dock connectors. I have enjoyed using Apple products but this might be the lowest point for Apple I have experienced in a while.