What is it that makes people hate Apple so much?

Cuchulain said:
Man alive!

I was looking a month or so ago for the missus and the cheapest I could find was £26 with no data via dialaphone on o2.

I noticed on o2 you can get a contract for £13.50 a month if you shell out £179 for the handset, madness!

Anyhow, I'm off to find some ketchup.
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Surely mayo is in order for underpants...

I'll go fetch my coat
 
I'd say it's the "Fanboy" culture that people associate with Apple. I own a mac and a PC and would never say to someone that one is better than the other since it is down to personal preference. Same thing with Android vs iOS, I use Android since I prefer it! Some people just can't see this and think that the only way to get a decent computer is through Apple.
 
I may be a little bit late into this whole topic, but I'll give my two cents anyway.

Personally, I boil this down to nothing else than fanboyism and rivalry.
I'm more of a balanced person where it comes to things like this, I've owned plenty of computers & plenty of macs and to be honest, I prefer using my mac for such things as coding/day to day tasks/browsing/video editing, etc, but on the windows side of things, there is absolutely no other platform for gaming and that's where I enjoy doing my gaming.

Some people only see one side of the coin, you could be casually explaining that you love your new powerful iMac and then someone would jump in, 'WELL THAT SUCKS, FOR WHAT YOU PAY FOR, IT'S OVERPRICED, MY PC COULD BURN YOUR MAC, SIMPLE AS', it's a bit pathetic, I've long but forgotten about petty squabbles and arguments such as this.

Both systems are good, we all have preferences, but I guess some people try and throw their prefs in other peoples faces.

meh.
 
I now own an iPad 2, iPhone 4 and an iPod Classic, this comes from the guy who said

"My netbook does everything an iPad can do, and it was cheaper"

The point is, neither Windows or OSX/Microsoft or Apple are better than the other, both companies have their strengths and both have their weaknesses, I would love a Macbook, but I can't justify the price at the moment when now, I have an iPad I no longer need my netbook.

As far as desktop computers go I doubt I'll ever buy a Mac purely because they're not very customisable and for the money I'd drop on a mac, I could get higher specs for the same money by building my own Windows based PC
 
Jay794 said:
I now own an iPad 2, iPhone 4 and an iPod Classic, this comes from the guy who said

"My netbook does everything an iPad can do, and it was cheaper"

The point is, neither Windows or OSX/Microsoft or Apple are better than the other, both companies have their strengths and both have their weaknesses, I would love a Macbook, but I can't justify the price at the moment when now, I have an iPad I no longer need my netbook.

As far as desktop computers go I doubt I'll ever buy a Mac purely because they're not very customisable and for the money I'd drop on a mac, I could get higher specs for the same money by building my own Windows based PC
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Ultimately it's the right tool for the job.

I have a MacBook Pro because the trackpad and keyboard are excellent, and as the trackpad is the primary interaction with the computer, I think it's important that it should be top quality.

I have an iPhone 4S because I like a device that I can use easily one handed, has really sharp/clear text when browsing the web, and has good battery life.

I have a self-built Windows machine because I play games that are only available on Windows and Windows Media Centre knocks the socks off anything that's available for the Mac. I can also customise the machine to my liking with the hardware of my choice.

I feel sorry for the people who pretend to "hate" Apple because they're only hurting themselves by deliberately excluding devices that are actually really good.
 
mrochester said:
I have a self-built Windows machine because I play games that are only available on Windows and Windows Media Centre knocks the socks off anything that's available for the Mac. I can also customise the machine to my liking with the hardware of my choice.
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Even over XBMC? for media centre I couldn't not use XBMC, so many options and supported over several platforms...
 
The walled garden
Apple fanboi's
The switch to intel hardware - before you could claim a Mac was faster, now it justs looks prettier
It's more the whole jesus cult/apple fanboi thing for me, as well as Apple really not being geared for the corporate environment..

Did I mention the fanbois?
 
edgedemon said:
The walled garden
Apple fanboi's
The switch to intel hardware - before you could claim a Mac was faster, now it justs looks prettier
It's more the whole jesus cult/apple fanboi thing for me, as well as Apple really not being geared for the corporate environment..

Did I mention the fanbois?
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Unfortunately, you'd end up using nothing if you didn't buy because of the fanboys. You wouldn't be able to buy an Android device because of the equally obnoxious fans, or a Windows PC either, etc etc.
 
edgedemon said:
The walled garden
Apple fanboi's
The switch to intel hardware - before you could claim a Mac was faster, now it justs looks prettier
It's more the whole jesus cult/apple fanboi thing for me, as well as Apple really not being geared for the corporate environment..

Did I mention the fanbois?
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Yeah, you did. Your point became increasingly compelling each time.
 
I have just switched to apple after years of windows use. Have to say they both have there plus points and there negatives. The main reason for me changing was I wanted to try something different.

I have an iPad,iPod and a 4s and now an iMac. Does that make me a fanboy or just someone who likes to buy what they want with there hard earned money.
 
The majority of people don't like anything they don't understand or can't use.

People are used to getting their tasks done on say Windows, so using anything but Windows makes them feel uncomfortable.

The resulting response is to hate it.
 
JimAroo said:
The majority of people don't like anything they don't understand or can't use.

People are used to getting their tasks done on say Windows, so using anything but Windows makes them feel uncomfortable.

The resulting response is to hate it.
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A very Flawed argument.
 
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