Is Apple Losing It?

I'll be honest. I don't like Apple nor do I care for any of their products (that includes the iphone). I never liked the way how Apple did business, always outdating their products without even giving them time to sell on the market. Case and point being the iphone, when it Apple released a new version of it with a larger hard drive and a significantly lower price. But after seeing the ipad, I just shook my head in disapproval. Quite frankly, the thing seems to be an overgrown iphone. One that you can't fit in your pocket. To the best of my knowledge, there's no case for the thing either, meaning that ipads are bound to go through a gauntlet of scratches and being dropped. I don't want to go over the overall design of the thing, but everytime I see Apple try to push this product as if it's the greatest thing ever, it feels like they're trying to sucker people into buying something they don't really need. But what really kills me is how all of the Apple fan-boys soak it up, believing that everthing Apple makes is pure gold when there are equally great (if not better) products on the market.

Not too long ago, I heard about how an Apple employee 'misplaced' a prototype of the iphone at a bar, which eventually ended up in the hands of a gizmodo reporter. The sheer fact that the employee wasn't shot and left for dead in the Mojave desert leads me to believe that it was Apple's way to get attention.

How about the rest of you? Anyone else feel the same way about Apple as I do?

I've never really been a fan of Apple, nor it's products.

But their business process is simple.

They build stuff people will (and do) buy. Regardless of it is great or not, they snatch them up. And Jobs, in his pseudo-evil fortress, laughs himself to sleep every night on huge piles of money.

Everyone on this forums will probably agree with you. You've come to the right place for Apple-haters.

Just one thing, I recommend you read up on that iPhone story again before concluding it was a controlled leak.

Just a few pictures I know that basically describes Apple

^ I LOL

Well anyway, I somehow agree with what you just said.

Simply? Yes.

A long time ago they made great stuff! Really pushed the whole creative/indie type feel with their products. But now Jobs is slowly letting his megalomania take over: that, coupled with Apple's dominance of the portable/handheld device market, is ruining their great legacy.

I knew it was bad when they changed from Apple Computer to just plain old Apple. They're forgetting the computer aspect of their company so much these days, it seems. :(

JOBS: ...by the way it's an i-house

Like all "experts" that will somehow fail in the way, they always forget the Basics and the "starter core" of their expertise.

I basically don't buy Apple Stuff because it's restricting. My 1st impression is "It hates open source and customization.

so all the things that I buy that I can compare that is better than Apple's stuff

Customization Vs Restriction

Creative Zen Vision:M >>> IPod movie (even made my friends in class realize that Ipod is over-priced with this)

Windows PC >>> Mac PC (just because it has open source and application that I personally like, and I've been using windows since I was a toddler)
I'm not into the whole touch screen phone yet.

Yeah, I'm not fond of Apple myself. They've become the gangster of the industry now that Microsoft has gone a bit into the background of the electronic industry, what with the overall failure of Vista and dividing their time between OS and the Xbox 360.

I've never owned an Apple product, and I never intend to.

Apple used to be an awesome company, they are no longer. They screw early adopters of their products by limiting their products upon first release in order to add things later as "features". The iPad could have been an awesome device, instead it's a more expensive iPhone with less features and a larger screen.

Also this

http://gawker.com/5539717/steve-jobs-offers-world-freedom-from-porn

Never been a fan of apple, so I definitely hope they are losing it. First time I even herd about the I-Pad I just about fell out of my computer chair laughing at how stupid it is.

i thought that too. it was a plant, not lost. then just as the story dies down, the cops raid his house after he retuned it.


apple is lame. the only people i know who like apple, either started on one, or say it's because it's easier to use than windows. yet, those same people complain more when using apples than they do when using windows.

I'll hand it Apple. They know how to market their stuff. People eat it up every time something new pops up. Their products on their other hand, is a completely different story.

steve jobs has a PC

Say what? o.o