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Anyone else just HATE Apple?

#22
Bob Lee (QSC) said:
I was never a big fan of Apple's Mac computers, but my iPod (I wouldn't call it low quality by any means) is a lot more useful than I ever expected it to be.
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+1. Macs aren't really an option for me, anyway, since I sometimes work at home and (of course) our publishing system and data programs don't work on a Mac.
Alex said:
Yes but I think what Todd was getting at is that they are not very innovative. They play music AND...nothing else. There are better mp3 players out there for much less money, but Apple controls the market because of their brand name. :hmm:
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But I don't want my iPod to do anything else--I don't want an mp3 player that contains a PDA, Blackberry or a Swiss Army knife. And show me these mp3 players that are cheaper, better, have as much memory as the 80GB model I'm about to get, and are as easy to add music to. I tried a Creative Zen before I bought my 20GB iPod in 05--because I didn't want to follow the crowd--and I didn't like it.
 
#24
Macs are a good product, not widely accepted by the market. Most users have their work machines and can't tke work home on a MAC. That's Apples biggest downfall, not trying to get more gov't contracts with Macs and distribution. Once people get accustomed to them in the workplace, they would be more apt to buy one and bring it home.

I like MAC's, I do not like however Apples arrogant stance and making Windows looking like a Bumbling fool in those commercials. They are funny, but throwing the wrong image to a serious user.
 
#25
fenderhutz said:
Macs are a good product, not widely accepted by the market. Most users have their work machines and can't tke work home on a MAC. That's Apples biggest downfall, not trying to get more gov't contracts with Macs and distribution. Once people get accustomed to them in the workplace, they would be more apt to buy one and bring it home.

I like MAC's, I do not like however Apples arrogant stance and making Windows looking like a Bumbling fool in those commercials. They are funny, but throwing the wrong image to a serious user.
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So you don't like it that apple tells the truth in the commercials :hiding:\

lowsound
 
#26
jkritchey said:
I like Apple's machines; I think they are too expensive, but they are fine.

I HATE iTunes. (Although I make money fixing it....)

I HATE Apple snobbery, but I also hate PC Snobbery and Linux Snobbery.
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Well, at least PC Snobbery is justified! :p

I'd rather use a dollar for toilet paper than use it to by a piece of DRM infested iTunes music. Quite a scam they have going there.

- Dave
 
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iamlowsound said:
So you don't like it that apple tells the truth in the commercials :hiding:\

lowsound
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OSX doesn't allow you to be as dumb as a windows user and keeps the root account privledges pretty well hidden, if you gave a MAC user as much control over the OS as Windows does you would have some serious problems as well.

After fixing about 5000 PC's in my lifetime so far and about 300-400 Macs you realize the Operating Systems aren't the problem. Click happy users are.
 
#31
Apple did ONE thing absolutely right, and that's the main reason they still exist: they gave away thousands of Apple IIe machines to K-12 institutions back at a time when there were no computers in schools. As a result, a generation of children and teachers became comfortable with Apple.

If they hadn't done that, they'd be as extinct as the Dodo bird. But that act (a master stroke of marketing) gave them a permanent inroad into K-12 and Higher Education. They're still riding on that wave, although they've expanded their footprint (slightly).
 
#33
I recently switched to Mac because I got sick of PC failures. Bad boards, bad power supplies, hard drive failure, etc. So far the Mac has outlasted any PC I ever owned. Personally, I like it a lot. As for working from home, I loaded Windows on it for the wife and she works from home just fine. Call me a snob, I guess.
 
#36
Pilgrim said:
Apple did ONE thing absolutely right, and that's the main reason they still exist: they gave away thousands of Apple IIe machines to K-12 institutions back at a time when there were no computers in schools. As a result, a generation of children and teachers became comfortable with Apple.

If they hadn't done that, they'd be as extinct as the Dodo bird. But that act (a master stroke of marketing) gave them a permanent inroad into K-12 and Higher Education. They're still riding on that wave, although they've expanded their footprint (slightly).
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While that was a good move, and important to their development, they have lost a ton of Education market share.

Interesting - I recall that before iPods came out, Apple was in poor financial shape, (During the Jobs 'sabbatical'). It was 2 things that kept Apple solvent: Direct cash 'grant' from Microsoft ($500 million? 1999? 2000?), and Microsoft's decision to write and release MS Office for the Macintosh. (Office 98)
 

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