苹果公司高级副总裁克雷格·费德里吉（Craig Federighi）和艾迪·库伊（Eddy Cue）出现在约翰·格鲁伯（John Gruber）的播客《脱口秀》（The Talk Show）上，该节目于今天出版。两人对苹果的现状、产品以及公司的发展道路有了一些有趣的见解。

让我们从数字开始。Cue说，苹果公司“刚刚超过1100万苹果音乐用户”，这与英国《金融时报》上个月报道的“超过1000万”的数字吻合。上个月我们在苹果公司季度财报电话会议上得知，苹果公司有10亿个设备在积极使用，Cue在播客中说，由于许多人拥有多个设备，公司拥有7亿8200万个iCloud用户。Cue称，这些用户每周都会向iCloud上传数十亿张照片。

在播客进行到一半时，格鲁伯带来了Verge执行编辑沃尔特·莫斯伯格（Walt Mos**erg）上周的专栏，内容涉及苹果专有应用的功能缺陷、漏洞和性能问题。格鲁伯称之为“某种诅咒”，并说他没有看到任何人真的不同意。这部分对话从37:38开始，但下面是费德里吉的回答：

There’s big resp***ibility in transitioning the experiences for a lot of these apps. These are so important to people and we see it every time we change them at all. And you know there are cases where, if you look at Photos, where we did a really bold rethink of where Photos needed to go, and how to transition it. And by and large I think that’s been well-received, and I personally love it. But you’ll hear people who say "hold on," you know, "there was a reason why I liked the way things used to be." And people are pretty serious about their music, and about their collection, and so I think we talk, we debate pretty heavily internally the right way to evolve these things. And we tend to err on the side of being pretty bold, but there’s a lot of resp***ibility.

You get the other side of these stories, you know some of the people, when you talk about people nodding your head if I look at some of the comments that come online when people say "yeah Apple’s quality’s bad," and someone will say "yeah, like when they took away my iPhoto app and replaced it with Photos, I don’t like the new Photos app." And that’s why they think Apple’s software quality is bad. Now many of us would say "well hold on, no, this is exactly an example of where Apple’s software quality is quite good. We delivered something faster, cleaner, simpler." But someone’s going to say "no but it’s changed and I was attached to it." This is a tricky balancing act, and I think our customers give us a lot of resp***ibility to thoughtfully evolve their experiences, and we try to take that resp***ibility very seriously.

早些时候，格鲁伯问Cue和Federighi，即将发布的tvos9.2最终将如何将Siri语音听写引入苹果电视我们想从一开始就做到这一点，”奎尔说。）格鲁伯甚至对蒂姆·库克拍下的那张现在臭名昭著的超级碗照片责怪他们两人，然后在一些恶劣的反馈后删除了这张照片(提示：“我觉得很好，因为它表明，你知道，蒂姆就像你和我一样。他是一个超级体育迷，他很喜欢，他也很喜欢他的球队赢得了超级碗。”）如果你想从苹果公司两位最高级别官员的口中听到更多关于苹果的信息，那么整个事件都可以在Daring Fireball听到。