! I hate Apple!!!!

[Alex]

Just have to vent my frustration!!!! I hate Apple! :shock:
My old laptop died the other day. I saved the harddrive and transferred the music to my little netbook and external HD. Suddenly, my Lordi album wasn't playing anymore on my (ancient) Ipod!!! Turns out it's one of the two albums I've ever bought on Itunes and it blocked them somehow because I was using a different PC now and not Itunes anymore (I think the software is basically bloatware and prefer other softwares). It took me ages to reinstall Itunes and get access back to the itunes store and to finally "reauthorize" the music!

What kind of bullshitee is this??? They force you into using Itunes and limit the devices you can play the music one? Talk about an abusive company-customer relationship!

Argh.... :?

[ToneMonkey]

Yeah, I've heard of this. Think it massively takes the proverbial. It's like renting your music.

I still buy CD's and then just transfer them to itunes. (I have an ambition to completely fill the bookcase, so I'm not going digital just yet). Although if my ipod goes up it, I'll probably have someone from Apple come round and take my CD's away when I'm not looking... because it's exactly the same thing.

Here starts the revolution brother.

[FELINEGUITARS]

I use Apple products , but I too still prefer physical CDs - have shelves full of them.
Computers crash and fail - very few of my CDs have gone wrong.

[Philly Q]

The only Apple product I've ever owned is an iPod which I hardly ever use.

Almost everything I have in iTunes is from my own CDs, but I've got thousands of other CDs on my shelves which I'll never get round to transferring/copying. 

The only music I've ever downloaded, apart from a handful of individual tracks, is a load of Blue Oyster Cult live material (there was a special code for a free download with my BOC box set)

[blue]

Apple's attitudes to their customers is generally pretty disgusting.  myself, i only download something if it simply can't be gotten on cd or vinyl.  a solution to one problem is to burn the downloaded tracks to cd, as an audio cd, and then rip them to mp3 again from there.  the drm shouldn't be a problem then.

[Lezard]

If I were you I'd just pirate all the music I bought from itunes, the artist has already been paid, no need to put up with their bs.

[gwEm]

Recently I've been finding a bunch of bugs in their stuff. Syncing playlists between my iPad and laptop has been fraught and for some reason my iPad is crashing more and more.

Nevertheless, I still prefer Apple to the alternatives. Generally the OS doesn't get in the way and my laptop has been reliable.

I agree the iTunes attitude to the way you own your music and apps sucks, I experienced similar. I've been buying more CDs recently - really cheap now 2ndhand

[TheyCallMeVolume]

My new iPhone 5 seems to not like my computer very much... haven't been able to sync since when I first got it.

[AndyR]

I'm partial to a nice Granny Smith. I even like a nice Cox when in season before they go too spongey...

...oh, you're talking about that computer company I never go near... don't think I've ever touched anything of theirs, hardware or software... I'll shut up now :D

[Johnny Mac]

I just use Spotify premium now. I'm fed up with iTunes and file transfers

[Roobubba]

I have to use Apple machines for work (politically have to, that is...). My first macbook pro 5 years ago had to go back to Apple a couple of times with design fault problems. I have a new MBP now, and it went back to apple 4 times in the first year. Total brickage.

I wouldn't mind if they were fast machines, but they cost an absolute fortune and they run slower than the machines I build at home for a fraction of the price. And they're unreliable. 2 Mac Pros I have at work are faring slightly better, though I did have a cinema display die after 2 years (just outside warranty), and they don't come cheap.
I fixed up a mate's Samsung monitor with a £1 capacitor, and it's now been going in total for 8 years. My own Samsung monitor has been going almost as long with no problems.

Needless to say I don't waste any of my own money on Apple tosh, and am happy I never got sucked into that whole iPhone/iPad nonsense. They fleece their customers rotten.

Almost as bad as you know who... (no, not The Who)

[MDV]

I wont touch apple products with a barge pole myself. itunes in particular can go $%&# itself with a rusty breadknife. Its a totally redundant advertising and DRM platform. Theres no need for it at all, and its among the worst offenders in screwing small bands over in distribution cuts.

Their business model is genius though, from a purely machiavellian perspective:

1: Engineer as many circumstances as possible where a person has to buy a replacement apple product (planned obsolescence, claiming customer error on any repair they can get away with not doing, producing a series of basically meaningless upgrades, etc etc)
2. Use off the shelf parts in proprietary configurations that are nearly non-user serviceable
3. Sell them at a huge markup compared to the same gear that doesnt say 'apple' on it.
4: Convince people that this buying of replacement apple products is actually a good thing through some of the most insidious, insipid, vacuous, image-driven marketing schemes ever devised.

[Philly Q]

Almost as bad as you know who... (no, not The Who)

The ones who had an Apple Corps, presumably!

[AndyR]

Almost as bad as you know who... (no, not The Who)

The ones who had an Apple Corps, presumably!

Either that or those tele-totting, mash-munching traffic wardens that prowl the streets of Oxford :lol:

Quite gratified I find myself in the Roo/MDV camp (without having really thought it through so well!)

Years ago, I worked as a programmer in a small software house. We're probably talking just pre Apple's almost demise before they went all groovy. Even then there was a camp of "PCs are sh1t, get a Mac". There was a business consultant working there who knew more about technology than us developers, and he had a mantra -

"The only good Mac is a Big Mac"

:lol:

Good on them (Apple) for being successful, etc... but I don't ever see me touching anything of theirs meself while there are alternatives.

[JJretroTONEGOD]

I've always been suspicious of anyone with an i-phone, which not only monitors you but has an exact GPS location of your every move. How did that become normal?....