Not necessarily. But if it doesn't have an Apple logo on it, I'm immediately suspicious. The device is "guilty before proven innocent", and judging by what's come out of Apple over the last decade and what's been copied and churned out elsewhere, a healthy dose of suspicion is certainly warranted, at least at first blush.
From your postings on Appleinsider and Macrumours, as soon as a product has an Apple logo on it, you worship it. A normal consumer would recognize that all companies have awesome products and they also produce lemons, Apple has had its share of lemons. I would have loved to be on these forums when Apple switched to Intel, for all the slagging of anything not apple, it must have hurt so much that Macs are just PCs internally, conforming with the rest of the industry, for all those companies that "copy" Apple, what is your view on the switch to intel?
Thing is, do you actually buy these products or do you just jump on the bandwagon and worship them ignoring the real issues that real customers have?
My last 10 years experience with Apple is something like this..
PowerBook G4 12 " - Awesome, way ahead of anything in its time, only runs on one RAM slot now. Upgrade to tiger whipped all my data. Still one of hte best Apple products
Unibody 2.53 15" - GPU failure, with core shutdowns. Replacement had a faulty trackpad, though I came to a conclusion that I could not stand glossy so Refund
MBA Rev b - Lovely Laptop, my second one I kept, has bloody feint horizontal lines. Awesome style sacrificing practicality at times. Keeper to this day, great for travel.
MBP 17" Matte - Kept the second one (first one had faulty illuminated keys), my favorite Apple product since Powerbook G4. Not an issue with it yet.
Iphone orignal - Love it - Safari crapped out all the time - Lacked too many common phone features at lauch, the Alu back better then the plastic on 3g.
Iphone 3g - Lots of hype but kinda preferred the original - The world does not revolve around this phone not having flash is a real @£!*@&*£ at times
Iphone 3Gs - Like the speed boost - Got it as i needed more then 8GB
Orignal ipod - My fav - kudos to Apple
Ipod Mini - Awesome again - still love it
Ipod nano - original - Died after a year
Ipod nano - current gen - Never used now that i got a Sony x series, sound quality it much more important to me then showing off a apple product on a train
Imac Mini 2.26 - No issues with this one. Great media server
Apple ACD 24" - Crapped out in the first year, logic board replaced. Has yellow tinge
Imac 27 i7 - First one flickered and blacked out, might as well be DOA unacceptable. 2nd one, the CPU fan gone after 3 days - Waiting on the 3rd. Had yellow tinge on both.
Apple has great products, but like all products in the industry they suffer from issues. This concept that they are perfect is total BS, frankly if you have go back 10 years and look at Apple products, Rev A products are anything but fault free. Though you have to be an actual consumer instead of a worshipper to accept this.
So if you are telling me that Apple products are fantastic and that you have never had an issue with them, you are lying or just plain do not buy them. And yes you do annoy the heck out of us actual Apple owners cause you go on and on and on about how they are perfect but us actual owners are suffering some real issues with them. Since Oct 2009 I am yet to receive a working imac 27!!!!
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