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Originally Posted by djgreedo
Apple has a track record of doing the wrong thing by their customers. Telling iPhone 4 users they were holding the phone wrongly because Apple chose to use a crap antenna so that they could make their phone look nicer. Arbitrarily banning apps from their app store. Etc.
Yes, Apple's users do often rate their products well. But Apple's users are mostly a mix of diehard fanboys and users with little knowledge of alternatives (i.e. they haven't tried the often better competition - e.g. when people see my phone and MP3 player compared to an iPhone/iPod Touch they are often amazed at how much more intuitive and well designed the non-Apple is when they previously assumed that Apple's devices are great because Apple says so).
You're seriously going to claim that Apple products are good value for their price? Really? This is demonstrably untrue. Check the prices of Apple computers (built with the SAME COMPONENTS as other computers) compared to Asus, Samsung, HP, etc. A top-end Windows computer is usually several hundred dollars less than the equivalent Mac. iPods are more expensive than most (if not all) comparable MP3 players. iPhones and iPads are not badly priced, but that is due to a different model (i.e. phone carriers make money from contracts, and Apple is positioning itself as a middle-man by taking a cut of all apps and media on the iPad, so they are able to make less margin on those).
You're right. Ignorance is not the same as intelligence. My bad.
There's nothing childish about being passionate about technology and being critical of companies that undermine the excellent potential of technology by crippling their products and promoting style over substance. These are two things that Apple is demonstrably guilty of. You may not have a problem with those things, but there are few things that bother me more than the willful disdain for consumers and technology as an ideal that companies like Apple perpetrate.
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You are within your right to not like Apple but to look down upon others because they don't share
your views is just as trifling.