Hands down Apple products.

I'm not even really sure Apple products are over hyped anymore. Most people with any sort of technical knowledge know to avoid them.

On top of that, most people who buy them only do so because it's what they know, not because they see them as these superior products.

They're housewife electronics.

I agree on Apple too. The biggest reason is because just about anyone that only uses Apple thinks everything else isn't up to par with it. Have any of y'all held the Galaxy s7 edge. It is a work of art. Blows anything else out of the water as far as build quality goes.

Star Wars........ Ugh at all the Star Wars stuff.

FYI i am tying this on my iPad Air so if you think I'm being biased you are wrong. I use it for work and it's pretty good but it's no s7 edge.

I live in a College Neighborhood with 7 colleges within a 3 mile radius. Everywhere coffee house, library, and park are littered with kids using apple products. The nearest Apple Store is usually packed to the gills with college kids. This tells me that it is still overhyped since most are getting Macbooks and Macs for the first time and whenever a new phone comes out the lines are 10x as long just to speak to an Apple sales person.

At least where I live the hype is strong, very strong.

Ultrabooks do not look "as good" as Macbooks. Not even close. Having a metalic body doesn't constitute as "looking good." Those PCs don't look as good as Macs, either.

Nei- actually, I'm starting to notice a patern on what you constitute as "good looking," so it's not worth debating taste. Needless to say, the amount of people who buy Apple products over their competitors, based partially on aesthetics, shows anecdotally what the consensus verdict is with regards to what looks better, regardless of what you or I think.

No layman cares if Android phone 12 outperforms an iPhone 6S. That technical difference holds degligable real-world benefit to 99% of consumers. No offense, but I absolutely do not for a second buy your anecdote that "over 1/3 of all Apple devices failed." Not when my anecdote says that maybe one or two Apple devices in have failed through no fault of the owner in the years since the ipod came out from. The absolute worse manufacturing issue I've ever seen to a wide spread degree was like 7 years ago when iPhones had the sour reputation of cracking their screens easily when dropped. I've owned my current iPhone for over two years and dropped it hundreds of times. Not a scratch, so that issue has long since been fixed.

Apple products are popular because they are good, and in many ways better, than the competition. Especially for music production when it comes to Macs, and especially especially if you're just using them for basic computer use, which is what most people are using it for.

A huge part of what you pay for with Apple is the operating system. iOS is a very intuitive mobile OS and obviously at the highest degree of optimization you can expect. I'm on my first iPhone, owned Android for like 6 years. Both have their ups and downs, both are missing features that should be standard (Swype, iMessage, there's more on each side) but I wouldn't really say they're overhyped at this point. Overpriced would be more like it but then so are all decent smart phones.

I think that Volkswagen is overhyped. Low quality parts, over engineered yet failure prone power train design and frankly I don't find them that attractive. This is coming from someone that used to be a Subaru technician (that's as qualified as I am to speak on the subject)

Uhmm, I think that tattoos are an overhyped 'fad/service/product', at least around where I'm from where seriously 95% of the people I know and see have at least one tattoo. No offense to anyone intended.

I also think that the magic bullet is overhyped. We have one, it's just a small blender lol

Every iPhone after the very first one.

Not sure if you understood the question.

OT: Apple products by a mile.

Then Beats, then Star Wars.

According to you, it's not possible to use it and dislike it. Also, remember that when 3D TVs where launched, people bought it and enjoyed. Didn't saved them of the upcoming flop.

I used Oculus Rift in several ocasions. One even to help a friend test its project for his master's thesis. I also used Cardboard but I won't count it for my critics because it's pretty low cost. Didn't tried Vive (nobody I know has it) and PSVR isn't out yet.

So because some people buyed it and liked it means it will be a success? It's a classic falacy. 500k people also bought the VirtualBoy. 15M bought Vitas or Wii Us and both are recognized as failures. VR is a platform. It needs games developed just for it. And to really push units, it needs expensive AAA games that will make people buy them. That alone makes Rift and Vive DOA, with PSVR having some minimal chances because Sony will back it with games. AAA games need to sell millions of units. So, VR devices will need to push millions and millions of units before being viable. That's tought for something that's expensive and immature.

Let's talk 3D TVs. They were just a tiny bit more expensive than regular models and the price to create 3D content for movie companies was zero because they already did it for cinema. It flopped because it underdelivered. People expected 3D TVs to have images that appeared to jump of the screen and in 99% of the cases, the effects were underwhelming. Before you make more assumptions, I have a 3D set. And I like it. People are expecting that you will play a VR shooter and feel like you are right there in the battlefield (no pun intended, EA. But it could be a nice slogan for BF VR). You won't. Your eyes say that you are running with a gun, but you other senses say "no, idiot. You are in your couch holding a controller".

If you plan to answer this, use real arguments instead of assumptions to avoid derailing the thread.

I have to agree with Apple products. Apple make some very high-quality products, but they're overpriced so I don't really understand the hype. Besides, Apple has been going downhill (product-wise) since the death of Steve Jobs.