 | Top 10 reasons I don’t like Apple products |
- There’s no delete key. There’s a backspace, to remove characters from right to left, but there’s no way to delete characters from left to right.
- Prices are ridiculous. Especially after they switched to Intel based hardware, prices should have dropped significantly.
- Their CD/DVD drives sound like death. All of them. WHY?!?!?! RRRRBBBBBRRRRZZZZRAREARE. Every time you eject or insert, it sounds like 100 little bugs in there are choking on asbestos and they’re about to die which means you’ll never see your
disk again. - Proprietary hardware is proprietary. It’s so stupid that I can’t just go buy the hardware that fails and replace it myself. In the PC world, it works just the the automobile industry. You have a choice to fix it yourself or not. Apple says you have to let them fix it and you can’t get the hardware out or in without voiding warranty.
- Planned obsolescence. They’ve forced depreciation on their customers. With their latest generation of the ipad, they even reused the name of the first generation, so you have no clue what you’re getting any more, just that if you haven’t bought it in the past year from them, it’s old and dated.
- What are they giving back? Steve Jobs himself was not a fan of philanthropy. I may just be unaware, but I don’t see huge innovation competitions or research grants or programs coming out of Apple. Where is the investment in future of people? future of technology? of society? I don’t like it.
- Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain hype. Most companies get beta testers for their new products. They’ll have honest excitement and information and let everyone know what they’re working on. Not Apple. Everything is shrouded in mystery until their big unveiling press conferences. So much hype. I’m almost positive that strategy stems from legal paranoia or even actually stealing technology but releasing it before anyone has time to stop them. Secrecy makes me not want to trust you.
- Itunes on Windows is a load of crap. I think they do it intentionally. There’s no plugin support or API to add functionality or change it around or even customize the appearance. Not to mention the huge memory leaks and errors. You see Microsoft spending a lot of time and money making it’s products work on macs, but it’s not the same the other way around. Even take a look at how they treat their app store developers. They deny apps based on their mood that day and then turn around and put the same functionality themselves! ^%$&3@$F
- You need a third hand for key combinations. I mean, come on! 4 different keys pressed at the same time and they’re no where near each other? I feel like I’m playing a micro game of twister.
- I hate gestures. More prevalent on the laptops, I hate having to gesture on the mousepad to see what windows I have open or perform certain functions. I have the same distaste for gesture driven browsing on PC.
Honorable mentions:
- No double click on the mouse – There are ways around this now, but that ticked me off that I had to use the keyboard and the mouse at the same time to perform a function. Isn’t Apple supposed to be known for their interface design? Or is it just their looks?
- I hate how the system bar changes by what application is open. It’s as if there’s no way to get back to the operating system functions without closing every application you have open.
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