For every ten percent IE's marketshare rises, an innocent baby dies. Just sayin'.
Can someone please explain to me why Macs are bad computers? iPhones are bad phones, or iPods are bad DMPs?
I'd really like to know
Most of the hate for Apple is hate for Apple as a company and a "community" rather than the products it produces.
The Apple fanbase borders on a cult, despite
Apple not requiting their love; I can think of no other company in the whole world with such a large proportion of truly obsessive fans with such a large sense of their own superiority, who defend their company to the death and who think (hilariously) that they are independent-minded left-wing rebels for buying the products that are the greatest examples of conspicuous consumption in the world today. Their advertising has traditionally gone way too far and has crossed the line many times from exaggeration and bias to outright misrepresentation. Steve Jobs is a horrible human being. He's clearly an egotistical megalomaniac who's the closest we have to a real-life Bond villain
. Whilst Bill Gates is giving billions to charity, Jobs is stealing livers.
That said, I'll answer your question. Apple products are ridiculously overpriced. Their desktops and laptops use the same shitty rebranded components that you get in a Dell, the Chinese sweatshop workers who make Foxconn motherboards for Apple are committing suicide, and yet their computers cost much more. Does an aluminium case cost hundreds of pounds? For the price that differentiates Apple computers from PC rivals with the same components, I'd expect the case to be made out of gold. And that's only the default configuration; adding 200 MHz of clock speed to the processor, putting in a few extra GB of RAM or adding another hard drive to your Mac Pro can cost hundreds of pounds; enough to buy a netbook.
What else? They're usually hard to upgrade and not designed for people to fix on their own. They're locked down (this applies more to their mobile operating systems; Jobs' authoritarianism really shows when he dictates what apps can be made for the iPhone according to his moral views and tells developers how to develop). They have useless features; everything they make gets turned into a little computer. I've also seen evidence that the failure rate of Apple laptops in the first three years is higher than that of some PC laptops (namely Asus and Toshiba). So much for Apple products just working and PCs BSoDing every half hour and constantly having to be repaired (which is what Apple's advertisers would have you think). They also make
the least secure software, despite claiming to be the most secure.*
The iPhone doesn't function as a phone. Some people believe that phones are designed to make phone calls, but not Apple, apparently. They have antenna issues that are orders of magnitude more severe than those seen in other smartphones, and until they were
forced to give out free bumpers, the bumpers you had to buy to make your phone work as a phone cost the same as a phone that would actually make phone calls when you held it in a normal way. I once heard a stand-up comedian say that all of the apps on the iPhone are designed to distract you when the phone part wasn't working; he was right. I don't know why Apple doesn't just drop the "phone" aspect of the iPhone and call it an iPad nano. To an extent, this applies to all smartphones, but the iPhone is the most egregious example of this faggotry.
Dunno 'bout the iPod. That doesn't seem to have any massive problems. It also doesn't seem to have such bad press.
*True, Windows might be less secure in practice because criminals invest more time in it than on the Mac, but that's because they know that, after buying an Apple product, people don't have any money left to steal.
The only problem i have with apple anything is they try to dictate how I use it. If i buy a piece of hardware I should be able to use it anyways i please. Oh and the prices are horrible, except for maybe the iphone compared to android phones.
Because Microsoft doesn't dictate how you use their 360, or Sony doesn't dictate how you use the PS3, or Nintendo doesn't dictate how you use the Wii.
Game consoles aren't expected to be open, nor should they be. However, Apple's closed platform devices are marketed against, and competing with, open platforms such as Android (vs iPhone) and Windows and Linux netbooks (vs iPad).
When Apple made a games console, no-one cared that it was locked down. Of course, people seemed to be bothered by other things about it.
Apple have no-one other than themselves to blame for their bad press, and it's been a long time coming. It's funny that they're complaining now that they're getting treated the way they used to treat Microsoft.
