Apple Good & Bad

[pimentoLoaf]

Celebrate and commiserate here, as you see fit.

[Chappers]

Great was emailing Steve Jobs and getting my problem with an Apple service centre sorted out.
Bad was that an Apple service centre caused me such a headache.

Great is MacosX

[_bnkr612]

Good: Product
Bad: Prices

Hot: Mac Mini
Cold: Cube

[iGary]

Good: Beautifully designed, innovative, solid, durable and rugged hardware products with a first-rate integrated software bundle.

Bad: Often behind the times with industry standards (e.g. PCI-X, video cards, standard RAM etc.).

[radio893fm]

Good: looks
Bad: the apple hard-core-cult-fanatics-don't-like-anything else-windows-sucks and everything else-ego guys

[_bnkr612]

Good: S. Jobs

Bad: B. Gates

[edesignuk]

Good: looks
Bad: the apple hard-core-cult-fanatics-don't-like-anything else-windows-sucks and everything else-ego guys
Good: S. Jobs

Bad: B. Gates
:rolleyes: made me chuckle.

[wilmor42]

i've been pretty screwed by apple recently. I'm still waiting for my mac mini which was ordered on jan 27th, i got a email confirming its despach on the 7th of march.. so i waited.. and waited like an idiot.. and then i did some research on my own.. i'd been trying to track my order online with no joy as it seemed apple locked me out of my 'check order status' section.. until yesterday i finally got somewhere.. i spoke to someone at TNT uk and they told me that my unit had only been aloocated for collection from Eindhoven yesterday. i told this to the apple rep on the phone-she paused and very nervously told me that it was despatched on the 7th.. i told her i wasnt stupid and i could see what apple are doing.. I've been told i'll get it on wednesday 23rd of march-almost 2 months after i ordered it..
plus.. at the time i ordered it said despatch hopefully on 24th feb.. which turned into 3rd of march which turned into lies and apple simply just not being honest with me.. im not happy, im always gonna use apple and always buy directly from them-but im a good customer and i'd have thought they wouldnt screw me around.. i'd really like to make a complaint, but i dont know Mr job's email address and i dont honestly think anyone would care.. makes me think just why exactly that missing bite in the apple represents..

who knows maybe it was all planned in the begginning-in the early days
jobs: "lets take over the world"
gates: "ok i'll fool everyone for a while and then you come and save the day?"

ps. dont get me wrong, i love apple..
:D

[virividox]

os x is great, prices are so so

hardware is fantastic, support is good

whats bad? not much hehe

[DavidLeblond]

Good:
- OS X/iLife/XCode (my 3 favs)
- Apple Hardware
- Apple finally targetting the low-end (somewhat)
Bad:
- Complete lack of advertising for the Macs
- Apple's gaming performance/lack of games
- iWork -- 2 applications??
- My iBook not supporting Core Video fully
- My iBook not being a Dual G5 PowerMac

[evil_santa]

BAD: Having to listen to the windows boys hark on about how much better XP is, how macs are slow & expensive etc etc....

GOOD: Having had 6 month of hell at work with XP & Dell; THEY ARE SO WRONG! :D

[radio893fm]

BAD: Having to listen to the windows boys hark on about how much better XP is, how macs are slow & expensive etc etc....

GOOD: Having had 6 month of hell at work with XP & Dell; THEY ARE SO WRONG! :D

This is what I was talking about... see!

If you did not read the title of the thread says: Apple Good & Bad... but you had to take the chance to bash other OS... of course...

[Uma888]

Great was emailing Steve Jobs and getting my problem with an Apple service centre sorted out.
Bad was that an Apple service centre caused me such a headache.

Great is MacosX

steve jobs helped you personally? :eek:

whats william done? :p

Good/Bad: Apple stuff is like diamonds, everyone wants them but not everyone can get em

[MattG]

Good -- product design, ideas, integration between products

Bad -- At times, being 'behind the times' because of Steve-o's stubbornness / having too much pride (i.e. adopting USB 2.0 long after everyone else had, still no 2-button mouse)

[DaveP]

Good: Lower end models are afordable (iBook / MacMini)

Bad: Higher end models price people out of the market (PowerMac)

Oh, and iLife is great!

[miloblithe]

Good: Even numbered versions of iPhoto
Bad: Odd numbered versions of iPhoto

[dsharits]

Good: All things Apple
Bad: Umm, let me get back to you on that

[notjustjay]

Good: Apple products.

Bad: Waiting for Apple products.

[dsharits]

Good: Apple products.

Bad: Waiting for Apple products.
Well, absence makes the heart grow fonder! ;)

[clayj]

Good: iPod works really well
Bad: iPod doesn't support WMA natively

[Blue Velvet]

Good: Convincing everyone that Panther was the real deal
Bad: Fixing things that should have been fixed

[Apple Hobo]

Good: Unique hardware. Great software.

Bad:
• Went to my local Apple Store to get a wireless router. They had the wired version of the one I was looking for, but not the wireless version. I asked a sales guy and he said they only carried the Airport. Seems like they're trying to pimp their $200 AP instead of the much less expensive alternatives.

• Whining, never-can-be-satisfied users complaining when a new product comes out. Remember when people whined about how stupid the iPod was? There's the fanboys and the we're-not-fanboys-because-we-complain groups. Neither is good, and the latter should not complain about the former.

[dsharits]

Bad: iPod doesn't support WMA natively
That's not a bad thing. WMA stinks.

[mvc]

Good/Bad: Apple stuff is like diamonds, everyone wants them but not everyone can get em

Because, just like diamonds, the price is held artificially high to maximise profit and snob value.

And I don't know if thats actually a bad thing, because the alternative windows/pc least cost approach to computers seems to be worse in practice.

Just feels bad whenever I have to get out the cheque book. :rolleyes:

[clayj]

That's not a bad thing. WMA stinks.Sez you. It's strictly a matter of opinion.

[win_convert]

Good: Everything except,
Bad: The mistake of making Mac OS only work exclusivly with Apple hardware and therefore missing out on market share.

[Platform]

Good: Everything except,
Bad: The mistake of making Mac OS only work exclusivly with Apple hardware and therefore missing out on market share.

Maket share is not everything. BIG market = viruese, spyware etc.

Apple = smaller and a better experience + works better ;)

God: Love their OS, sofware and Hardware, except
Bad: Can't build one myself and sometimes they are a bit slow with new GPU's ;)

[leekohler]

Good: Everything I've ever bought from Apple. I've never had one problem I couldn't fix myself and I've been using them since '97. Price shouldn't be an issue- I bought my first desktop on credit when I was really poor (just making rent) and you get what you pay for.

Bad: Nothing that I've experienced so far.