I giggle vindictively at my friends who raise their noses at me about Apple always producing “quality” products, and that’s why they should pay more and have no control over their own devices.
I’ll stick to anything but Apple. Enjoy your phone. <3
Consumer reports refused to recommend the Iphone 4
Why do Apple products always have some critical flaw?
I think they rush to market and have a big mop up team in the wings
My, Jade, that’s rational. I’ve had Apple products for the last 24 years, and they are some of the most amazingly durable and useful products I have ever owned, especially in contrast to the various PCs I’ve had during the same period. They’ve made mistakes - but so have lots of others, and people don’t line up to throw mud at them the way they do at Apple.
^^^ Typical Apple users are remarkably snooty. Part of the brand is “we’re better than you.” Additionally, “you’re not good enough to make your own decisions with your product so we’re making them for you.” I don’t like that. And they really aren’t. MacOSX, for example, is no more secure than Windows 7 or Linux. The numerous security holes that get plugged all of the time “quietly” are merely not discovered often by hackers (even though during a lot of hacker conventions MacOSX products are often the first to get hacked) simply because anyone who wants to steal real information isn’t going to waste their time targeting 10% or less of computer users. Security through obscurity does not automatically make it better. Incidentally I can install Windows or Linux on any hardware I so choose. Doing so with MacOSX is against their EULA.
And one of the “big things” about iOS4 is a small amount of pseudo-multitasking. Congratulations, welcome to Android 1.0. Android, for example, being less draconian and not forcing people to develop ON a Mac for anything they want to make for a phone.
I’m well aware of the fact that Apple makes good products. They’re just not for me nor do I appreciate my friends “preaching” the gospel of Apple to me and looking down on me for not using those products. For example, congrats on your iPad, I’m waiting for an actual full use computer like the Asus Eee Pad. Additionally, I have a Creative MP3 player. I am not required to have iTunes to work with it. Again, they’re typically good products, I would be fundamentally ignorant to not acknowledge that, they’re just not for me.
I was an Apple fan in 1980, when I bought my Apple-][+, and it created an industry around the open bus and BIOS ROMs.
IBM copied that plan with the (unfortunately crippled) 8088 PC, and another industry blossomed around it.
Then Apple forgot that model with the Mac, making a closed box, IBM and MS followed with secret hacks into the OS, and yet another industry has grown up around Open Source, both hardware and software.
myming almost 14 years ago
with the sign on the phone booth i don’t think that one will work either.
Jaedabee Premium Member almost 14 years ago
I giggle vindictively at my friends who raise their noses at me about Apple always producing “quality” products, and that’s why they should pay more and have no control over their own devices.
I’ll stick to anything but Apple. Enjoy your phone. <3
meowdam almost 14 years ago
Consumer reports refused to recommend the Iphone 4 Why do Apple products always have some critical flaw? I think they rush to market and have a big mop up team in the wings
Motivemagus almost 14 years ago
My, Jade, that’s rational. I’ve had Apple products for the last 24 years, and they are some of the most amazingly durable and useful products I have ever owned, especially in contrast to the various PCs I’ve had during the same period. They’ve made mistakes - but so have lots of others, and people don’t line up to throw mud at them the way they do at Apple.
Simon_Jester almost 14 years ago
My late father had an ironclad rule….Never buy ANYTHING the first year it’s introduced.
I’ve yet to go wrong, following that rule.
Jaedabee Premium Member almost 14 years ago
^^^ Typical Apple users are remarkably snooty. Part of the brand is “we’re better than you.” Additionally, “you’re not good enough to make your own decisions with your product so we’re making them for you.” I don’t like that. And they really aren’t. MacOSX, for example, is no more secure than Windows 7 or Linux. The numerous security holes that get plugged all of the time “quietly” are merely not discovered often by hackers (even though during a lot of hacker conventions MacOSX products are often the first to get hacked) simply because anyone who wants to steal real information isn’t going to waste their time targeting 10% or less of computer users. Security through obscurity does not automatically make it better. Incidentally I can install Windows or Linux on any hardware I so choose. Doing so with MacOSX is against their EULA.
And one of the “big things” about iOS4 is a small amount of pseudo-multitasking. Congratulations, welcome to Android 1.0. Android, for example, being less draconian and not forcing people to develop ON a Mac for anything they want to make for a phone.
I’m well aware of the fact that Apple makes good products. They’re just not for me nor do I appreciate my friends “preaching” the gospel of Apple to me and looking down on me for not using those products. For example, congrats on your iPad, I’m waiting for an actual full use computer like the Asus Eee Pad. Additionally, I have a Creative MP3 player. I am not required to have iTunes to work with it. Again, they’re typically good products, I would be fundamentally ignorant to not acknowledge that, they’re just not for me.
pirate227 almost 14 years ago
First a crappy network, AT&T, now a crappy phone on a crappy netowrk. LOL!
pbarnrob almost 14 years ago
I was an Apple fan in 1980, when I bought my Apple-][+, and it created an industry around the open bus and BIOS ROMs.
IBM copied that plan with the (unfortunately crippled) 8088 PC, and another industry blossomed around it.
Then Apple forgot that model with the Mac, making a closed box, IBM and MS followed with secret hacks into the OS, and yet another industry has grown up around Open Source, both hardware and software.
The meta-lesson? Niches will be filled!