Oh god... Those ads are so obnoxious... As a person who spends 75% of the computer time on W7, 20% on linux, and 5% on OSX, I find those ads incredibly misleading. From my perspective, they downplay a computer that gets 15 times as much of my time (and W7 is in no way inferior to OSX), and completely ignore a computer that gets 4 times as much of my time.

I don't hate Apple i hate the fans who constantly buy there products when it is a slightly updated piece of equipment that they end up paying full price again.

i dont like Apple from personal experiences, i bought two ipods and they both broke the same damn, way, tried to take it to the store(it one could call it that) got no help from them.

on a side note, i never really liked the whole culture of it, most of the people i know just get the damn thing because they are just playing monkey see monkey do and keeping up with the joneses. i get tired of hearing from my friends "why dont you get an iphone?" well give me a good reason to get one, and I will get it, and no "because everyone has one and its cool" is a bad reason

Games wise I will probably never touch an iOS device, but I don't hate Apple or their products.

it's easy, as there are many people who unconditionally love apple there are bound to be people who hate apple, just because they are popular/successful and it helps (the hate) that their products are expensive

iTunes sucks on Windows because they do it on purpose... they want you to buy a Mac, the whole ecosystem if possible.

I just dont like their prices. They're too expensive.

- Their products are overpriced.
- They patent things they didn't come up with.
- Their fanboys/girls are incredibly annoying.

I dislike my personal experiences with Apple. I foolishly bought an Apple music player thing a long time ago without doing any research. Everyone had one, so I wanted one, too. About a month later, I bought a normal mp3 player that I ended up liking more, for less than half the price of the Apple. Then there is iTunes. The damn thing is like a virus, plus I still have a bunch of music in their proprietary, DRM protected format that I still need to convert over. I will never buy another song from there.

It's also kind of funny the way some Apple fans compare Apple computers to PCs. They will, as inane as this sounds, tell you how much better their $1200 Apple is than the $400 PC they used to have. That makes no sense. It's like comparing a Cadillac to a Yugo and using that as basis to claim that American cars are better than European cars. Compare a $1200 Apple to a $1200 PC if you actually want to be honest.

And yes, those ads were incredibly dishonest and smug, and turned me off of Apple even more.

I don't hate Apple, but I can certainly think of a few things I do hate about them. For starters, I never liked those old "I'm a Mac" commercials. I thought they were dumb. On a more personal note, an example of what I hate most about Apple is my iPod. I got a second-gen Touch in '08, when it was brand new. Apps were just starting to take off, and I thought it was pretty neat that I could play games on this thing. Then one year later, they released the third-gen, and the year after that, fourth-gen. 18 months after I had gotten my iPod, it was no longer receiving App support. A lot of the Apps I did have were updated to work only on later-gen iPods.

Apple's incessant need to have a major hardware revision every year is a pain in the neck. I say 'major' because it's not like they just improved the camera a little bit or increased the battery life or something. They gave it a new, faster processor, doubled the RAM, changed the OS. It completely changed the way developers approached the platform. Sorry, Apple, I don't need to replace my iPod every year, or every other year, or every three years. I like to make my expensive electronic devices last as long as I can. Apparently this isn't really an issue for 3rd-gen owners, since that's still being supported now, 3 years after its release, but I'd be willing to bet that in the months following the release of the 5th-gen (presumably this October, assuming the Touch line won't be discontinued entirely), support for 3rd-gen will start to die out. Three years still isn't a great length of time. It would be like buying a DS in 2004, only for Nintendo to release the DSi in '05 and then the 3DS in '07.

In spite of all of this, I don't hate Apple because they make good products.