Why First Generation Apple Products Suck

mmAPP writes "CoolTechZone.com has an article up that pleads with Apple to focus on its quality assurance before releasing new products. From the article: 'If anything, I think Apple should do a better job at quality assurance than Dell, HP or other OEMs that deal with more units than Apple. The benefit of being a considerably small company (in comparison to other OEMs) is to focus on delivering quality products. There's no denying that Apple is perhaps one of the most innovative companies when it comes to consumer electronics, but ignoring quality as a result is not something it needs to ignore.'"

Comments

Re:Show^W Give me the money

[heinousjay]

I think Apple brings this on themselves. They want a reputation as a vendor of superior quality, as evidenced by their marketing, yet they don't deliver anything close to that reputation. Why should this company get a free pass? Because they make fun of Microsoft?

Re:Show^W Give me the money

[morgan_greywolf]

I'll probably get modded down for saying this (who cares? I got karma to burn), but I attribute it to the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field.

Basically I think this field extends to customers and potential customers of Apple. Steve Jobs has been successful in convincing people he's never even met that Apple products are superior to everything else, that the hefty price tag all Apple products carry is worth it, that Mac OS X is an open-source operating system, and that Apple can do wrong.

Of course some us seem to be immune to the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field. I'm attempting to study what the difference is between people who are immune and those who are susceptible to its effects.

So far the only thing I can figure is that those in the latter category actually believe that they took the word 'gullible' out of the dictionary.

Re:I concur with this

[ktappe]

an apple employee told me "Laptop drives die between 2.5 and 3 years after use, it's normal"

I call bullshit. No Apple employee told you that. No offense, but judging from the grammar in your post, I'm guessing English is not your first language, so perhaps you lost something in the translation. It is possible that Apple told you it was not unheard of for a laptop drive to die in 2.5-3 years, and that would be correct. But that is not the same as "normal" and no Apple support tech. I've ever spoken with would say that. They would be fired if they did.

Is there any chance you didn't keep your data backed up and are now blaming Apple for your lack of prudence with regard to this?

Further, I've owned a half dozen Apple portables and while they get warm (as any computer does), none has ever overheated. Where did you get that idea? Oh, right, you got it from the same place you got your quote from Apple about your hard drive: you made it up out of thin air.

-Kurt

Why does Apple Suck? Two Words...

[Mike Buddha]

Steve Jobs.

'nuff said.