Someday You'll Hate Apple (And Google Too)

jfruhlinger writes "Think today's world, where Apple is the innovative underdog, Google is the company that does no evil, and Microsoft sits atop its throne as ruler of an evil empire. Will this state of affairs last forever? You must not remember the days when everybody loved that scrappy upstart Bill Gates. Don Reisinger muses on the fickleness of consumer loves and hates. 'It's that same [level of] success and its own questionable privacy practices that will lead to Google's PR downfall and propel it into a position of disdain going forward. Trust me, the future of Apple and Google may look bright from an economic standpoint, but these companies will be hated one day too. Sad, but true.'"

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Re:No, we hated Apple from time to time

[snowgirl]

Crappy, closed-technology machines.

Yes, closed-technology, what with their advancement of PCI, USB, Firewire, etc.

The cult of the single-button mouse.

Simplicity by design. If you might only have one mouse-button then you can get everything done with only one mouse button. Seriously, who here on Slashdot has not had to explain to someone the difference between RIGHT click, and LEFT click. The fact that use use the multiple button in games and such is entirely beside the point. I have an 8 button mouse that I use with my Mac anymore, and it works fine.

Reseller programs from hell.

Ok, you have stuff here. Apple has always been strict about resellers and such. In some ways it has always worked out for them, because the support has been better. Now they're selling them at Best Buy *looks around* I don't think the red-tape for resellers is there so much anymore.

Lovely laser printers that became ultimately useless.

Don't have any experience with this.

Two wire AppleTalk networks with all of the speed of ISDN on a good day.

I've been using apples for... God, 5 years now. I've never used AppleTalk. So, networking at the speed of ISDN? Meh, for outdated technology, it was reasonable in the era it was a part of. Of course, there's always ArcNet... are you going to accuse Linux of being horrible for supporting ArcNet still?

Cute little useless Newtons.

Newer, very useful iPod Touchs and iPod Phones. The trick is not to count failures, but what they learned from them. I'd like to personally say THANK GOD Microsoft was smart enough to learn their lesson from Bob. (The UI, not the scripting language.)

Servers that could never rise above simple workgroup needs.

Outdated information that pretty much applied to Windows NT4 at the same time...

Special connections and exceptions needed to network with anything else but perhaps NFS or wicked Novell patches.

I kind of figure they supported open standards ok... if you're complaining that they didn't support windows SMB quickly enough, then that's retarded. Microsoft didn't want to hand out their advantage for a long time. No less, you complain about AppleTalk then would suggest that SMB is some high-holy right to connect to... transmitting a 4GiB directory over SMB to India from Washington takes about a week, at least in the magnitude of days. Transferring via HTTP? Maybe 2 hours. Awesome protocol right?

Wonderful and proprietary (given few others used them) PPC CPUs.

This is my BIGGEST gripe about what you're talking about because PPC CPUs are far less proprietary than anyone ever seems to imagine them to be. It is _THE_ most popular embedded chip in modern devices. x86s are limited almost strictly to the desktop and servers because it's the only markets that x86 design research and money has been spent. Sure, there are a few low-scale x86 embedded vendors out there, but when you look at what they offer in x86, and what they offer in RISC, it becomes apparent that the only reason to go with x86 is to support windows and other programs unavailable for any other architecture.

I'm sure others can count the way. Others can see the bloom on the rose, and I still have marks from the thorns. Oddly, I still use a PowerBook G4, alongside a heavy-duty (and less expensive) HP core-duo notebook. Only for games, of course....

I see the bloom and have marks from the thorns. Only an idiot would let the thorniness of previous iterations affect current thinking. Just about everything you detailed upon why either Apple struggling in a market dominated by a competitor or something they've learned from.

The reason you still use a PowerBook G4 is actually surprising, considering that few laptops are worth anything after a few years. I used my PowerBook G4 550MHz for about 5 years, and recently, a roommate used it for all of her computer needs. (World of Warcraft kind of made her