The Anarchyz said:
Apple is not an evil empire... They want to control their products, as any other company that does propietary stuff, Sony removed Other OS, MS banned people from XboxLive, Ubisoft put a crazy DRM for PC games, Ninty did 2 generations without standard discs, etc.
Besides, if you don't want to buy an MAC, iPod, iPhone or iPad, there are a lot of other options out there, some are even better, the thing is, Apple makes those products as the "cool way", and if people fall into that marketing strategy, that's their problem, but they don't have monopoly of anything right now... |
It isn't just that apple makes things some cool way or whatever, they are the best in class products for everything except maybe set top boxes (the Apple TV is seriously flawed in a lot of ways).
The iphone is pretty much universally considered the gold standard for phones with just about every major tech reviewer calling it as such. Android, which is the only platform in contention, is more or less a cheap rip off of 90% of the iphone with some other things added in like menus which tend to be a step in the wrong direction.
Good luck finding a better platform then the ipod touch. The Zune is missing the apps, the games, the quality itunes store and much much more. There is a reason that there are 30 ipods and even a few weird sandisk players ahead of the Zune on Amazon where the Zune is 80th.
The mac is still, as it has always been, a more stable, faster and better performing OS then Windows unless you are part of a very narrow market that only likes hard core games and isn't willing to just boot camp into windows once in a while. The mac pro always has the best tech in it available, the imac is the highest performing all in one by far and the laptops all top consumer reports best list usually be 15 to 20 points on a 100 point scale.
Apple is also number one in reliability, customer service and ease of use according to just about every consumer survey. If your Lenovo craps out you have to try to send it by mail to their central location and wait who knows how long without any real support (if you call their number you're lucky if you get someone from India who has any idea what you're talking about.) If your mac craps out you take it to one of hundreds of Apple stores, they fix easy problems for you right there and they fix harder problems for you within a few days at the most when you drop it off at the retail location.
As to the evil empire thing, I look at the advantages of an integrated platform that runs only approved hardware and software. I love that my iphone almost never crashes, never gets viruses and is extremely easy to use. I would rather have high quality apps coded specifically for hte iphone instead of crappy ports of flash apps. Compare the pretty good iphone kindle app that was made natively with the horrid kindle app on the mac which was exported using middleware tools.
In a similar vein compare natively made PS3 games like God of War 3 and Uncharted 2 with middleware port games that are on the 360 as well, there is a vast difference in quality in favor of the platform specific code.
If you want an open system Linux is always there, have at it, but I'm perfectly happy with a fully integrated high quality experience.
This isn't like the windows monopoly where you were forced into using really low quality products by the long arm of Microsofts monopoly powers. The Apple products are the best overall so using them is very seldom any kind of sacrifice.
