Apple has shipped versions of its Mail program that delete email without warning¹ and versions of the Finder or OS X that delete² files. And much more. Yet their reputation is intact: the masses still believe that they put out quality software. They are truly the Teflon corporation.
Neither of your links seem to work, and the second one in particular seemed to have been dead for what seems like half a decade. Have you just kept these links around to whip out in support of this argument, without checking once whether they actually go somewhere?
Not to defend Apple but I'm not sure there are higher quality options really. I don't think Apple makes good software but it can be the best without being good.
¹http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12758081&...
²http://tomkarpik.com/articles/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopa...