| Raistline said: You don't need apple to have a nice looking product. For example you can get any number of UltraBooks that look as good or better then a MacBook for much cheaper. For PC's there are plenty of All-in_ones that compare to Macs and still look great and are still much cheaper. For Phones, you can get top of the line looks and performance on the cheap as well. Look at Motorola devices or OnePlus devices. They look awesome and often outperform the comparable Apple product and have better reliability. I worked for a massive company where, due to whining, gave in and started deploying Apple tablets and phones. The amount of device failures due to bad manufacturing was astounding. Even Blackberry had a better track record. We ended out having to purchase AppleCare on every device because more than 1/3rd of all devices failed, not including drops, within 1 year. Apple devices are just popular, but from my experience and knowledge of other available products, they are simply overpriced garbage. I will agree that Apple Phones and Tablets are very good at being a phone for people who don't know how to use technology. Apple has mastered the art of dumbing down technology. The cost of this is making advanced use and configuration nearly impossible without "jailbreaking." |
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.
