> In that light, I may be hard pressed to call it a debacle, but it’s still third-rate.

Not sure how that isn't a debacle:

"The product wasn’t ready," Cook, who will step down as CEO in September, said during an Apple town hall on April 21, Bloomberg reported. "We apologized for it and we said, 'Go use these other apps. They're better than ours.' And that was a humble pie. But it was the right thing for our users."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2026/04/24/tim-cook...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-22/tim-cook-...

(Bloomberg site paywalled, so used a non-paywalled source quoting Bloomberg)