Speaking at Apple's Cupertiono, California headquarters this morning, CEO Steve Jobs announced the company will be providing free cases to iPhone 4 buyers. The cases are intended to address a growing controversy over the phone's design flaw, which can cause dropped calls when it is held in a particular way.
Although the problem has only affected a small percentage of users, the controversy ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by core2kid:Apple should have admired that there's a problem with the design of the phone. Giving away cases for free without admiring that there's a problem is only half the cure. I'm not an Apple fan anyways, their stuff is overpriced and their customer service can suck. My biggest complaints are of iOS 4.0 where you can't disable multitasking and everything you close ends up running in the background, you can't set a solid image as a background and the Wifi bar seems to have gone downhill in accuracy. Their laptops on the other hand are reliable but why spend $2000 on a laptop that has $1000 worth of parts inside? The ability to run Mac AND Windows isn't worth the extra $1000 nor is the "reliablilty" which is the exact same as any other laptop out there. A Mac is a PC with a customized BIOS set to run Mac. That's why a PC can't run it. The HD, RAM, PSU, GPU and all are the exact same damn thing. Now what do you do when the battery in your Macbook dies? Head over to the apple store and give them $200 to replace it? I personally like to replace the battery for $30 myself in seconds with a generic battery. Their laptops are light but that's because there's nothing inside. It's a piece of crap in performance.
Everyone that hates Apple, I'm with you. Everyone that loves it, get the facts right. The only thing that is good from them are the iPods before iPod Touch. iPod touch was good before iOS 4.0
Originally posted by core2kid:Apple should have admired that there's a problem with the design of the phone. Giving away cases for free without admiring that there's a problem is only half the cure. I'm not an Apple fan anyways, their stuff is overpriced and their customer service can suck. My biggest complaints are of iOS 4.0 where you can't disable multitasking and everything you close ends up running in the background, you can't set a solid image as a background and the Wifi bar seems to have gone downhill in accuracy. Their laptops on the other hand are reliable but why spend $2000 on a laptop that has $1000 worth of parts inside? The ability to run Mac AND Windows isn't worth the extra $1000 nor is the "reliablilty" which is the exact same as any other laptop out there. A Mac is a PC with a customized BIOS set to run Mac. That's why a PC can't run it. The HD, RAM, PSU, GPU and all are the exact same damn thing. Now what do you do when the battery in your Macbook dies? Head over to the apple store and give them $200 to replace it? I personally like to replace the battery for $30 myself in seconds with a generic battery. Their laptops are light but that's because there's nothing inside. It's a piece of crap in performance.
Everyone that hates Apple, I'm with you. Everyone that loves it, get the facts right. The only thing that is good from them are the iPods before iPod Touch. iPod touch was good before iOS 4.0
Actually, MACos runs fine on PCs with just a small modification. Apple's bios does not have anything to enable MACos other than a tag that the install disk looks for. As for the laptop reliability, it is not the same as everyone else; apple's physical quality is some of the lowest in the industry...when they actually do tests, they find problems...and then they don't fix them!
As for their other devices...
The iPod classic has a good amount of space...allowing for lots of high quality music storage. The only problem there is that the audio quality is terrible; even iTunes can't play at full quality, and iTunes are very low quality tracks. The other iPods have the same audio quality problems, but they lack the space. I'm not saying the Zune has better audio quality...but the creative unit I tried did sound better, and the crummy onboard audio in any economy PC will be far, far better than the audio quality of an iPod. Pretty sad that all it does is to play music...and it can't even do that well. (I speak of both iPod and Zune)
