Reply #18: There are reasons many of us hate Apple. I'll list a few: [View All]

[stevenleser]

1. They claim they innovate, but everything that is supposedly an innovation is stolen from somewhere else. The Mac OS was stolen from someone else (Xerox if I am not mistaken), the idea of a smartphone was stolen from someone else (Palm), and a Pad based computer was stolen from somewhere else (various other pre-iPad Pad makers). Then they complain and try to sue when other people resteal the idea that they stole in the first place, and become more successful with it (Windows, Android phones, and soon, Android Pad based computers.)

2. They brag about how easy their Mac OS is to use, but they don't have the complications Windows has (keeping various versions of DOS and prior versions of Windows software as compatible as possible with new versions). Instead, Mac forces people to upgrade OS's pretty regularly otherwise new software just will not work. It's easy to make your OS clean and bug free if you throw your 2+ year old users under the bus and force them to buy a new computer and new OS and new software. If you can afford that, then great, Apple works for you. Many people cannot afford to do that. I cannot tell you how many times I have been trying to help Mac friends install new software only to find out "You need to upgrade the Operating System in order to do that".

3. One word. "Proprietary". Fortunately, this ends up severely marginalizing whatever Apple comes out with in fairly short order.