For me Apple a few years back was a company that made premium laptops and music players and stood for impeccable quality. Thus I invested in a MacBook. Though it would be somewhat unfair to base on opinion on one personal experience but my experience with the machine was by far pathetic. It broke within 3 months, repaired easily but broke again after 3 months again (never to be repaired- well not for the next 15 months - the local apple store here in Columbus, USA refusing to repair it). Both times afflicting me with the loss of my precious data. Now that made me look at Apple as a company in a negative shade.
Now whatever be the reason of my change in outlook, I have found reasons aplenty to hate apple. Firstly the products are ridiculously overpriced - even admitting the fact that the quality is better does not make it reasonable for them to be so exorbitant. Then I realized that while Microsoft is painted as the villain and sued for "anti-competitive practices" for bundling their media player with Windows. It is disturbing that at the same time no one objects to the fact that Apple does not allow any other browser other than Safari for iPod Touch / iPhone devices and that it fucking limits the users to use AT&T mobile service. How can that be acceptable. Either buy a AT&T connection or pay 500-600$ more for an iPhone !!
Other than that not many people (other than the few sane ones) realize that iPhone is nothing but a glam toy. Their fan following is gathering cult proportions now, people saying they would buy anything that is sold by apple are plenty and it is very worrying to see how a corporate can mind control so many people. Their taking for granted this mass following is becoming more apparent with the launch of iPad. iPad is the most pathetic device sold for such a price. I mean if it were a very basic device for $200-300 it might make some sense to think of buying it. But there is obviously nothing innovative about it, just increasing the screen size of an iPhone and removing calling and camera functionalities. Added to that it comes for $500-900. Do they even think before charging for something.. why should anyone pay $900 for a shitty device that doesn't allow multi-tasking - why not buy a laptop instead. And how is it that other companies are able to provide a much much better product for a much lesser price. Yes I am mainly talking about the Adam device by notion-ink. Notion ink is a new company - a startup so it is somewhat unfair to compare them to apple but the sad part is no other decent well recognized company is standing up to face Apple and make a good tablet device.
COME OUT OF THIS EVIL SPELL AND DO NOT BUY APPLE !! TILL THEY SELL YOU SOMETHING SENSIBLE
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