Quick time to move on to software that "simply works"

Question

Dear Apple,
I switched to your OS a couple of years ago because it was more stable, faster, and much more usable than Windows. I was happy for a while. But now you are doing your best to change that impression.
Some facts:
- Quicktime is useless. It plays only files that Apple wants it to play. It should be my place to decide what Quicktime can play. I want to decided myself in which format I want to see my videos. And I do NOT appreciate Quicktime for automatically starting to convert my content into another fileformat. You are diminishing the possibilities to work around that issue of yours. Perian does not function under Mavericks. Neither does Flip4Mac. Yes, they will come back. But I am sick of waiting for 3rd party solution for something YOU should solve. Mac claims to be for the creative spirits. So how does creativity go together with more and more limitation, restrictions, deliberate downgrades hidden in upgrades? You are becoming less and less Apple and more and more Microsoft. As for Quicktime - I switched to VLC instead.
- Safari. I use videos a lot. I watch them in the Safari-Browser, too. I am tired of your vendetta against Flash. Every other week I am forced to upgrade the flash player in order to watch flash bases video content in Safari. Yawn. I switched to Chrome instead.
- Itunes. Fix it, fix it, fix it. It is a broken piece of software. It is slow, bulky, inconvenient and inflexible. The only reason why I did not switch yet ist that I am still having an iphone. But Samsung is catching up fast.
Honestly Apple. I like Mac OS. I'd like to keep it that way. So why not find a new balance between shareholder value and customer satisfaction. Your success was built on that.
Don't make me switch again. Fix your software - it isn't that dangerous to your businessmodel if Quicktime was the best player, Safari the most advanced browser and Itunes the sleekes Multimedia-Library out there.

Answer 1

Interesting interpretation.
So any functionality beyond Quicktime's boundaries is garbage disposal? VLC is software to watch pirated content? That is - sorry to say - a VERY weak argument and quite rude to a lot of people who use VLC to deal with the increasingly poor performance of Quicktime. Simply put - I prefer a flexible tool to one that per design limits me. That's all. And just for the record: There is pirated content in mp4 format, too. So please drop that very personal argument and let us focus on the functionality of software topic. I work with video content every day and have to use all kinds for formats. Therefore Quicktime became more and more of an annoyance.
Same goes for Safari. Yes, there are workarounds. But hey, there is better softwar out there that I can use without working around a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. I do not owe Safari anything. So if it is inferior - I'll drop it. Even though Apple makes it hard to do so - and that increases my wish to get rid of it.
As for iTunes: Come on. It is an SAP based monster. There is no saving it. I agree with you that it is the best one stop shop for media available. But it could be so much better, faster and more convenient.
Again: I switched to Apple because it offered better software. I do not engage in fandom of any kind. I love efficiency, simplicity and enjoy stable systems that have a high degree of usability. Apple still rules this area. But that is no reason not to hint the spots that are simply not up to par. And the three pieces of software simply arent.