Well… What can I say?

What about when Apple screwed all their early iPhone customers? I personally think that Apple does NOT care about their customers.

And Dave, “2. Their products are easy to use and I don’t have to battle the thing to do what I want.”

I went to a friend’s house (an apple fanboy) and I wanted to show him some pictures. So I plug in my Hard Drive (into his mac) only to find out that I have to go through a bunch of weird voodoo in order to play the images as a slideshow… I ended up having to open each image, close the window, and open up another image… That is just one small example, but it is really pathetic on the mac side. Any OS I can think of could have done what I wanted it to do, but why wasn’t the superior mac able to do it?

I find this list to be a tad petty. Cutting edge technology always has bugs, and not every piece of hardware does exactly what we want it to. For every iPhone problem (3 out of 6 of your issues). there are a thousands (if not millions) of perfectly working iMacs, XServes, Mac Minis, not to mention iPods, as well as all the other Apple branded hardware and software products available.

Yes, MobileMe was a true screw-up (one that Jobs admitted to) – but suggesting that Apple users can get the “same” for free is dishonest. To my knowledge there is not a serious provider out there who has a integrated solution for OSX where I can migrate my user library in such an efficient manner between the mac in my home and the mac in my office and my iPhone. I like the usability, and am willing to pay for it. It’s not perfect, but slowly it has been getting better.

Apple’s market share has been getting much bigger, and yes, they have been getting some “big boy” problems. All in all considering the rapid growth, Apple has done a decent job when compared to the likes of Gateway, et. al.

Are you sure your attitude isn’t really about pushing back on the “fan boy” label, and you desire to have street credibility with your PC/LINUX brethren? Perhaps if you say something critical about Apple, they will stop calling you names?

Won’t ever happen. The PC world has its culture, and Apple has theirs. I have no need to be understood by the PC people.

Apple has a great OSX, excellent product integration, and the best customer satisfaction in the industry. Yes, Apple is fashionable right now, but a company that has been around since the late 1970s is hardly a fad nearing it’s point of burn-out because of few mistakes.

Oh.. and if you think this is bad, I remember the case of the exploding PowerBook 5300s in the early 90s… we’ve survived worse than this.

I’m happy to have the kinds of problems you mention.

People gripe a lot about new devices like the iPhone, but the bugs eventually get worked out.

I award myself few marks for positive content; but award you few marks for observation. lol

Everywhere I go I hear nothing but moan moan moan about Apple; followed by “But it is Apple we’re talking about; so we can excuse them now and again.” -

In June I blogged in my scoop about the inside information I’d been made privvy to about the platform being rushed to get ahead of the LG Viewty. All the Apple fanboys shouted “Blasphemy!” and some even boycotted my blog.

Later I blogged about other Apple issues; this time at the same time as the other commentaries were saying it:

“Oh you’re just anti-Apple” they said to me with a sneer.

Now even the Apple Fan Club are complaining about the same things I’ve been on about for ages; followed by”

“Aw but it’s sweet little cuddly Apple so we don’t mind that they took our money in exchange for a heap of crap. We love you Jobsweh: Kissy kissy”

What is it with fanboys? Earlier this century it was the Linux fanboys:

“Oh you Microtards are so yesterday: Linux is growing and soon Microshaft will be defeated by our great Open-Source supremacy!”

No I totally agree: Linux was growing: It grew from 0.4 to 0.7% in 5 years: It was free, but people would rather pay Microsoft $$$ for their o/s instead.

They couldn’t even give it away; and for a free o/s, 0.3% market-sector growth in 5 years is totally abysmal!

Now the number of Linux distros has exceeded the number of users and M$ have shot themselves in the foot by producing an o/s that was even worse than most distros in many ways and that costs money; people are starting to say that Linux isn’t such a massive fiasco. Nevertheless Linux usage still hasn’t even got as far as 10% despite the above.

It’s a similar scenario with Mac/Apple. I don’t have any actual data because pre-Vista there were no Mac users to speak of: They were even in a minority to Linux followers IIRC.

Jobsweh let a limited amount of success go to his head and he became greedy: He had a lot of say in the new iPhone and I think I can say with a good amount of certainty that he purposely let the iPhone be made without a user-replaceable battery in order to increase the amount of cashflow coming in: I blogged about that too, and the Apple faithful glanced at it down their noses: I quoted from Apple’s own site: $110+ to change the battery FFS!

“WE can afford it,” They chorused. “We pledge our allegiance and all our financial resources to our leader; the infallible Jobsweh, master of all and god of all things Apple.”

What a joke!