caterham09
Newbie
I have had a hatred of apple over the past couple years and i have not been quiet about it. I wast in your face about it either so i didnt feel like i was bothering too many people with it. However i was always asked why i dont like apple so i posted this to my facebook to help people understand. Thought that this would be a good place to share this.
Pro's:
1. Apple has extremely exceptional build quality. From their ipods to their mac books they have an amazing quality control team over in china. Everything fits together very snug and nothing ever gets shipped broken
2. The functionality of their products is great. Everything does exactly what it is supposed to do. There are very few random crashes, reboots or forcloseing like there is on windows or android.
3. Clear business goals. With every one of their products they try and set their minds to something and they do not deviate from that path like most other companies do. If they want an incredibly thin laptop they make an incredibly thin laptop. If they want the most user friendly mobile os the create the most user friendly mobile os
4. High quality materials. All of their products use the best materials that they could afford for the price. Only metal and glass, plastic is used very sparingly unlike most samsung phones or windows laptops.
5. Clear market section. When apple designs a product they do it with a certain consumer market in mind. The macbook bro was designed for graphic designers on the go. The ipod classic was built for people who really like to listen to A LOT of music. However this does not apply for all of their products
Now for the cons:
1. Price. Most apple computers are priced much higher than the competitors and often times you get less. This is extremely apparent when looking at the $1700 base macbook pro and the $2500 base imac.
2. User custom ability. Apple designs their products to work great exactly the way that they want them to. Companies like Google and Microsoft have realized that every person is different and will want different things so they design their products to work the way that the user will want them to.
3. Customer appreciation. Apple thinks of their customers mostly as a hindrance to their products. This becomes extremely clear when you realize how blocked out the user is from the system or product. All of their devices are made to be serviced by apple and by apple only. Any attempt to do this yourself will void the warranty and usually break it.
4. Marketing scams. Apple happens to own one of the best marketing departments in the world and they often use it to lie to the consumer. For instance, recently apple released a new chip set in the new ipad called the a5x. The claim was that the new chipset would be 4 times as powerful as the other leading chipset called the nvidia tegra3. When the new ipad was released tech reviewers and bloggers ran several benchmarks and didn't find this to be the case. The a5x was completely demolished by the a5x in every single processing benchmark available. However the a5x was built for gpu abilities and when those benchmarks were run the a5x seemed to shine through. The gpu benchmarks consistently showed the a5x edging out the tegra3 by marginal victories. Even in the test that suited the a5x the best it only preformed about 2 times as well as the tegra3. It is easy to see then that apple can tell the consumers almost anything and they will believe it.
5. This is my biggest issue with apple and it is the lawsuits. Over the past year apple has proven themselves to be a huge patent troll. The US patent office is basically issuing patents for anything anymore and apple is using this to take advantage of other companies. It has been well known that apple has been suing samsung for almost every single part on a samsung device. Shoot they even sued for the freaking unlock screen. Apple did not invent the unlock screen so they have no right to be sueing for it at all. This is clearly a tactic to try and push samsung off of the market. This is funny though because samsung makes over half of the parts for the iphone and ipad. The reason this pisses me off so much is because when apple does this they are basically trying to push everyone else off of the market. This is bad for not just these big companies but for all of us. When there is only one company on the market they dont have to do anything, but when there are multiple companies they are all fighting for dominance. This fighting causes all parties to try and innovate and create new and beautiful things. With competition we as consumers are able to purchase much better products at much lower prices. Without competition though none of that happens.
Pro's:
1. Apple has extremely exceptional build quality. From their ipods to their mac books they have an amazing quality control team over in china. Everything fits together very snug and nothing ever gets shipped broken
2. The functionality of their products is great. Everything does exactly what it is supposed to do. There are very few random crashes, reboots or forcloseing like there is on windows or android.
3. Clear business goals. With every one of their products they try and set their minds to something and they do not deviate from that path like most other companies do. If they want an incredibly thin laptop they make an incredibly thin laptop. If they want the most user friendly mobile os the create the most user friendly mobile os
4. High quality materials. All of their products use the best materials that they could afford for the price. Only metal and glass, plastic is used very sparingly unlike most samsung phones or windows laptops.
5. Clear market section. When apple designs a product they do it with a certain consumer market in mind. The macbook bro was designed for graphic designers on the go. The ipod classic was built for people who really like to listen to A LOT of music. However this does not apply for all of their products
Now for the cons:
1. Price. Most apple computers are priced much higher than the competitors and often times you get less. This is extremely apparent when looking at the $1700 base macbook pro and the $2500 base imac.
2. User custom ability. Apple designs their products to work great exactly the way that they want them to. Companies like Google and Microsoft have realized that every person is different and will want different things so they design their products to work the way that the user will want them to.
3. Customer appreciation. Apple thinks of their customers mostly as a hindrance to their products. This becomes extremely clear when you realize how blocked out the user is from the system or product. All of their devices are made to be serviced by apple and by apple only. Any attempt to do this yourself will void the warranty and usually break it.
4. Marketing scams. Apple happens to own one of the best marketing departments in the world and they often use it to lie to the consumer. For instance, recently apple released a new chip set in the new ipad called the a5x. The claim was that the new chipset would be 4 times as powerful as the other leading chipset called the nvidia tegra3. When the new ipad was released tech reviewers and bloggers ran several benchmarks and didn't find this to be the case. The a5x was completely demolished by the a5x in every single processing benchmark available. However the a5x was built for gpu abilities and when those benchmarks were run the a5x seemed to shine through. The gpu benchmarks consistently showed the a5x edging out the tegra3 by marginal victories. Even in the test that suited the a5x the best it only preformed about 2 times as well as the tegra3. It is easy to see then that apple can tell the consumers almost anything and they will believe it.
5. This is my biggest issue with apple and it is the lawsuits. Over the past year apple has proven themselves to be a huge patent troll. The US patent office is basically issuing patents for anything anymore and apple is using this to take advantage of other companies. It has been well known that apple has been suing samsung for almost every single part on a samsung device. Shoot they even sued for the freaking unlock screen. Apple did not invent the unlock screen so they have no right to be sueing for it at all. This is clearly a tactic to try and push samsung off of the market. This is funny though because samsung makes over half of the parts for the iphone and ipad. The reason this pisses me off so much is because when apple does this they are basically trying to push everyone else off of the market. This is bad for not just these big companies but for all of us. When there is only one company on the market they dont have to do anything, but when there are multiple companies they are all fighting for dominance. This fighting causes all parties to try and innovate and create new and beautiful things. With competition we as consumers are able to purchase much better products at much lower prices. Without competition though none of that happens.