Apple whips out some major * (maybe)
JCM said:
Icarus said:
Apple are ham sandwich for a big number of reasons - the fact that they actively prevent Mac OS X from being used on a PC (lawsuits) just goes to show they are. Microsoft may not be much better, but MS has had that bad reputation for over a decade and Apple is wrongful perceived as being more reliable when, in fact, they're WORSE than Microsoft.
Their products are reliable, its just the company is not ethical.
Their software is actually not that reliable and still has major compatibility issues. In our office, we've had more Mac software issues than on our PC. Example:
1- massive problems concerning PC servers. Since all servers ARE PC servers, this is a huge problem.
-- files with more than 16 letters (or so) are shortened on a Mac. This means that you have to rename the files on a Mac (PCs can read files made on a Mac fine). Talk about inconvenient ...
2- MASSIVE network problems. Mounted network drives disappearing, refusing to be mounted, constantly losing connection, shared folders on the server not even appearing in the list, etc. etc. None of our PCs have had any problems whatsoever with sharing folders.
3- A lot of things are slower on a $3000 iMac than on a $500 PC.
4- Oh, here's a fun one: CDs REFUSING TO BE EJECTED! We've lost HOURS because the fancy Mac OS refused to eject and just said "fuck you" to us. Since the DVD drive has no actual button because Apple are such cunts they think a button would harm the style, you're stuck with hoping Mac OS X will eject it.
(Incidentally, not a SINGLE internal DVD drive has ever survived more than a year in ANY Mac in our office (mostly Mac G5s from several generations). How much does a proper DVD drive cost again, Apple? You'd expect some proper hardware for the ridiculous prices charged! Right now, every Mac has an external LaCie or Sony drive as a result.)
5- Not software but I like to add this one as well because it annoyed me so much at the time: Their keyboards are hideously expensive yet you can't even open them yourself if you accidentally poor something on them unless you have one of those rarely-used keys. One of my co-workers pored soda on it which is very sticky. Even a $5 keyboard can be opened at the back and dried out but the Mac keyboard can't be. It uses a special key to be opened and of course, no-one has one. Result: $80 for another keyboard.
6- Mac OS has to be rebooted more often than Windows Vista when using Adobe programs. On ALL Macs, font issues arise all the time which requires a reboot. Actually, font management on Mac OS X is shoddy to say the least ...
-- Sat Jul 18, 2009 7:13 pm --
Necronic said:
JCM said:
Icarus said:
Apple are ham sandwich for a big number of reasons - the fact that they actively prevent Mac OS X from being used on a PC (lawsuits) just goes to show they are. Microsoft may not be much better, but MS has had that bad reputation for over a decade and Apple is wrongful perceived as being more reliable when, in fact, they're WORSE than Microsoft.
Their products are reliable, its just the company is not ethical.
I used to think this, and in certain circumstances (like apple software on apple hardware) their products are really reliable. However, whenever they have to deal with another company, they sometimes have pretty bad reliability issues. Be it iTunes or Quicktime on a windows PC (massive memory leaks) or Apps for my iPhone (all sorts of freezing issues).
Yeah that's very true. Anyone who has used Quicktime in the early 90's when it used to run in Windows 3.1 may remember the TONS of issues.
Incidentally, Quicktime was primarily aimed at the PC market. A lot of Windows games used the technology but thanks to Apple's typical crappy backward-compatibily, there were massive problems when you had a newer version. The only solution was removing the new version and reinstalling the old one in most cases. Later on, you even had to install TWO versions. Not only was the software very buggy as well (games used to crash all the time due to Quicktime errors) but it was a pain to use.
iTunes was just as bad. A simplistic and shallow program that used 3 times more memory than Media Player or Winamp, when both of these had FAR more features. Unforgivable. But the fact that music would stutter and skip the moment you were even just saving a file or loading a program, was totally unacceptable. And the fact that Apple were such cunts by forcing you to download AND install both iTunes and Quicktime when you just wanted Quicktime annoyed me even more at the time. It took them more than a year to make iTunes optional.
Basically, not a single piece of software from Apple on the PC has worked like it should. I bet that if Mac OS X had to be made for PC, it would be a disaster as well. It's easy to have a big mouth but when you got to support more than a handful of hardware combinations, things aren't exactly so easy, are they, Apple?
Anytime I was in his office going over data on his computer, something would crash, not open, not be compatible. This was one of those insanely huge, new iMacs too.
