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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
I agree that design is important. My problem is that many of Apples products look great (and work well) but they tend to do less and cost more than rival products.
Case in point 2-3 years ago I was shopping for a 30GB mp3 player with a color screen that could also do video.
You had the 30GB Video iPod which was $300 or 350 (can't recall for sure) and never on sale.
Then you had the 30GB Creative Vision M: Which also looked great and is a well designed piece of hardware and sold for $199.99 and I got on sale for $150 from Amazon. On top of saving the money, the Creative had better sound quality (per reviews), a better screen (higher res, displayed millions more colors), and an FM tuner which I use a lot and the iPods lack without buying an adaptor. Plus you can just drag and drop files onto the creative and not be tied to a program like iTunes.
That's why I'll never buy Apple products. I'm not willing to pay more for a device that looks nicer and does less than cheaper products from other companies.
I'll admit they have something unique with the iPhone/iTouch that competitors haven't rivaled yet. I just have no use for it. The internet sucks on the small screen, I hate typing on the touch screen keyboard (compared to the physical one on my LG Voyager) and the games suck compared to those on the DS or PSP.
But it is the best product of it's kind for people that need/want that kind of all in one device. I don't so I'd rather have stand alone devices that do all those things better.
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Years ago I was a Mac hater, a rabid Mac hater around the time of System 9 was it, can't remember the name. Then I tried OS X at a demo and saw the Imac and I was astounded by how it all fit together. This was how I'd imagined computing when I was young, looking at all those annuals that showed you what the future would look like. That's where they got me, they hooked me with that initial design and, minor annoyances apart, they've had me ever since -- which is really annoying when you're trying to advocate DRM-free and Open Source
