Quote from: duccarlos on September 10, 2014, 08:52:13 AM
If the iPhone were water-resistant, I would own one. I personally think that Apple makes very good devices, but damn, some of these fanboys are delusional

  Reminds me of many Ducati and Harley owners!

Quote from: DucHead on September 10, 2014, 03:52:00 PM
  Reminds me of many Ducati and Harley owners!

  I own both and bear witness to this being a true statement. 

Quote from: Triple J on September 10, 2014, 11:00:42 AM

Hahahaha....^so true^

I've had a Galaxy Nexus for 2 years +/-
Love it!

The main thing I like about Apple is that it's not Microsoft. I was reminded of that yesterday when I had to work on a PC with some malware issues. I kept getting popups & redirects, and half the programs wanted my permission to be updated at the same time... Each one needs you to give some sort of blessing 4 or 5 times to do the update as well.

Not so with Apple. Sure stuff needs to be updated once in a while but it only demands a moment of your time and then it does its thing.

The other thing I like about Apple is that the devices are easy to use and work well with one another.
So far I have a Mac mini, Apple TV, 2 iPads, Time Machine backup, and some where around here there is an iPod Video. All my music, docs, photos, address books, calendars and other stuff show up between all the devices except the TV one. (Just music, photos & videos on that one)

But I don't have an iPhone. My phone is a LG something or other that costs about $20 bucks.
I don't think Ive become a "fan boy" but I'm sold. Apple is neat and easy with minimal fuss. I have plenty of other stuff in life to fuss with without fooling around with a bunch programs and hardware built to a standard, that are supposed to work with one another.

The original rant was more geared towards the marketing machine and those that believe it blindly. There's not question that Apple has done an excellent job with integrating their ecosystem (using big words). My issue is more that they have stopped being the innovators. When you're at the top of the mountain, it's easy to sit down a take a breather, but that allows the other guys to kick you off.

I'm particularly impressed that both of my GF's Apple products, iPhone and iPad, failed within 6 months of purchase.
They were both replaced under warranty.....
with 'reconditioned' units, as a matter of fact.

And the 'class' that she went to at the Apple store (and paid for, IIRC) to learn how to use the iPad.... 3/4 of the time was spent helping one lady sign onto her e-mail or some such rot.

And it seems there's a brand new OS every freaking year for her dad's Apple desktop unit.
Which seems to f*ck up a half dozen things on it.

Awesome. 

Thanks for the thread reminding me to order my new phone. 

That main thing I like about *anything else* is that is isn't Apple...............

....................Sandal wearing "genius" wanna-be's...........(WASH YOUR HAIR!!!)



Mark

Quote from: Speeddog on September 16, 2014, 10:14:00 AM
I'm particularly impressed that both of my GF's Apple products, iPhone and iPad, failed within 6 months of purchase.
They were both replaced under warranty.....
with 'reconditioned' units, as a matter of fact.

6 macbooks, 2 imacs, 3 ipads, and 4 iphones since 2006.

1 macbook had an out-of-warranty video card failure. replaced free of charge.
1 imac had a hard drive failure. replaced free of charge.
1 iphone had a "lock" button that worked intermittently. replaced with reconditioned unit free of charge.

Quote from: Speeddog on September 16, 2014, 10:14:00 AM
And the 'class' that she went to at the Apple store (and paid for, IIRC) to learn how to use the iPad.... 3/4 of the time was spent helping one lady sign onto her e-mail or some such rot.

should've complained and either had the class credited or been given the option at attend again.

Quote from: Speeddog on September 16, 2014, 10:14:00 AM

And it seems there's a brand new OS every freaking year for her dad's Apple desktop unit.
Which seems to f*ck up a half dozen things on it.

because there *has* been a new OS every year since 10.7. don't install the new OS, but keep installing security updates for the old one.

Doesn't everybody (Microsoft, linux) come out with a new OS every couple of years?

The New OSX coming out this fall will be free from what I understand.

Quote from: Mendo Dave 3.0 on September 17, 2014, 05:28:54 AM
Doesn't everybody (Microsoft, linux) come out with a new OS every couple of years?

The New OSX coming out this fall will be free from what I understand.

no.

XP - 2001
Vista - 2006
Windows 7 - 2009
Windows 8 - 2013

Notably, the largest installed based of Windows users are on XP, much to MS's chagrin.

3 ipods, 5 iphones, 4 ipads, 1 macbook air. Only problem was a stuck lock button on an iphone which they replaced free of charge. The macbook I sold after a couple months because I am a PC user and couldn't make the switch. It's not as intuitive as they claim. I spent more time trying to figure out how to do stuff then working.

And no one has talked about resale. I've sold every iphone and ipad as I replaced with a newer model and reclaimed about 75% of what I paid for them. So my latest phone cost $300 when I renewed my contract with Verizon. I sold the previous used phone for $250. I've used the $300 phone for two years and will likely get $200 for it.

Android 

First Iphone was the 3G. I bought it the week it came out. I had it for 3 and half years. Moved to the Iphone 4 and now the 5C. All of which I have had zero problems whatsoever.

The computer I am writing this on is my MacBook that I bought in 2007. Absolutely no problems other than a cracked screen that I replaced after I flicked a quarter at it by accident.

No complaints here.

I tried the Galazy S4 for one week and returned it. I couldn't stand it.

My first iPhone was a 3Gs after spending a a few years* calling the iPhone a toy. I lost my precious BlackBerry and buckled under the pressure. I was hooked soon after. My wife also thought it was a toy, then she started using mine. She forced me to get her a 4 soon after. The original iPhone really was a game changer, same as the Mac.

* Years because I was working at AT&T at the time and knew some guys that were lucky enough to test the iPhone. Got to play with it before there were any apps)