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What Bugs Apple Fans About Apple
An anonymous reader writes "Forbes.com went to MacWorld to ask Apple fans what bugs them about the computer and gadget maker. Turns out the lack of replaceable batteries, need to buy Vista separately, and most of all the stock price bugs people."
I'd suffer from a severe case of self-loathing...
Similes are like metaphors
What the hell ISN'T wrong with apple? i'm glad that they finally figured out that they sucked enough they had to switch their OS over to a working one (they did make an excellent choice with the BSD kernel, they were able to realize they weren't smart enough to out-code BSD), and change their hardware over to something that people could actually use. fact is, apple's been crap in a shiny box for years. they've offered a hand full of features hoping that their systems would crash less if they put less on them, and now they're finally starting to get more use now that they're finally almost a working PC. their whole 'never breaks' marketing is complete BS, i've had macs crash far more frequently than PCs. the computer department at my school fixes more PCs than macs, but those are mostly software issues, and i think we can all agree that the average student knows nothing about upkeep on a PC. the only reason you need to do upkeep on a PC is that more people use PCs and thus more people try to break it. as we've seen time and time again no system of anything in computing works 100%, it can always be hacked. anyone remember the Novell challenge a few years back? back to the tech department here, they still fix a lot of macs, and mostly hardware issues with those (for all their shiny image, it's still crap hardware on the inside, stop fooling yourself).
after all of that, let me say that i am NOT a microsoft advocate, although for the amount of people who attempt to crack their systems, i still think that they do a pretty good job. security is still an issue, and with millions of people using the software (daily) and thousands trying to break into it (daily), along with many poorly coded third party apps opening up other security holes (daily), of course, security still finds itself wanting. but honestly, snap out of it, steve jobs is not the savior, he's actually done a very poor job of leading apple. get your head examined, actually look up some of the back story. yes, apple had its glory days and was the best around back in the day, but this is today and the only thing they now have to offer now is a shiny box and big bouncing icons.
the thing i find wrong with apple is apple. how about they just admit defeat? how about they stop trying to pretend that they're original and new (not to say that MS is)?
Well, Mac laptops probably outsell the desktops because they don't make a bloody desktop. If they made a desktop computer rather than novelty form-factors, then they would probably sell more desktops.