I really hate Apple

November 4, 2004

Well, the cluetrain has left the station, and Apple wasn’t on board. They’re basically saying that they went ahead and reviewed their products for you, and guess what? … they’re all GREAT! So, go ahead and throw them a bone; write your own review (which they will then edit and/or reject).

Let me offer a full disclaimer: I have never owned a mac, so most of my anti-Apple sentiment comes from the horrendous experience I’ve had with my iPod (the 40G one that came out last xmas — you know, the one with the hyper-sensitive buttons, zero battery life, and shoddy hard drive). These problems aside, I could have become an Apple loyalist had the company even acknowledged that my problems were valid and tried to fix them; but no, getting service on an iPod is like getting Microsoft to come to you house to fix the spyware that IE allowed to infect your machine.

Before I owned an iPod, I remember a frustrating conversation with an avid design-cult iconoclast. He said: “An iPod is just a small hard-drive in white box — that’s it!” I defended Apple, “No! it is so much more: it has great industrial design, great user-centered software, great versatility, and great Apple support.” Now that I own one, I am more than willing to eat crow. He was right. The value I believed I was buying (at a premium price!) was just a brand lie.

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Dirtworshiping TreeHugger added:

That is so sad, I haven’t owned an iPod and thanks to your reccomendation, I never will. I have used PC’s since they were 128k dos boxes and Apples since the Apple II, they both have their uses but I have to say, Apples computers are the Rolls Royce to win/tel’s yugo. Luckily, it sounds like, I have never needed service from Apple either, guess its good for them that most of their products are phenominal. Recently I tried running a photoshop filter on a brand new Dell 3ghz, 1gig ram, XP box and did the same on a 5 year old G4 400 with 768mb ram, not even OSX, not even the screaming 64 bit G5, rendered in maybe 75% of the time it took the PC. 5 year old PC?, have one of those too, it keeps my basement door open nicely.

my advice: if you find a verifiable rembrandt for $200, don’t worry about buying it from a shady guy in a black trench coat, its still a rembrant, but do skip the fake rolex.

Posted on November 5, 2004 6:18 AM

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Deemoore added:

Mac to me was always like Betamax vcrs. If they were’nt so proprietary with the operating system at the beginning they would have become more prevalent.

Posted on November 9, 2004 2:21 AM

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