Apple in 2023: The Six Colors report card

It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple.

This is the ninth year that I’ve presented this survey to a hand-selected group. They were prompted with 12 different Apple-related subjects, and asked to rate them on a scale from 1 to 5 and optionally provide text commentary per category. I received 58 replies, with the average results as shown below:

scores chart, see each section below for them in plain text.

Since I used largely the same survey as in previous years, I was able to track the change in my panel’s consensus opinion compared to previous years. The net changes between 2022 and 2023 surveys is displayed below:

score changes chart, see each section below for them in plain text.

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