Why do geeks hate apple

I was worried that like you, I would have to change my opinion. I readily admit that it does a whole lot right. But I miss my freedom. I would like to drag and drop pictures from one folder to another.

I hate that every picture I choose to save to my device from the web browser can only stay in the camera roll, which makes no sense at all. There are a lot of little nuances such as these that have stacked up over time and broken the spell of iPhone. I found a lot of those issues troublesome as well but there IS an app for that.

It just happens to be Cydia. Well, I hope that losing multi-tasking, copy and paste, , apps, tethering, etc etc is worth your while? I walked into a geek store. High end components and parts only. Asked about a troubleshooting issue I was having…and received a snark remark about proprietary on board graphics cards. Apple changed that some 10 years ago and he was still beating that drum. I hope you enjoy your iPhone as much as I do. Quality control anyone? The OS is fine.

The only difference is that the Intel processor architecture is MAC exclusive. The reason they are affordable is because they are built with sub-par components. Macs are expensive for 2 reasons: first is that they are built with superior components. That is why they are reliable and why they last. That is part of the reason they cost an arm and a leg. They build a machine and mark it up for sale to the consumer. In a perfect world, everyone would build their own machines.

While I agree with your statement regarding machines like the iMac line of all-in-one machines, I have to disagree when you move into the Pro line of Macs. They use the same Intel procs and almost every other component is the same as you would put into your standard homebrew PC. Thus, the more and more popular Hackintosh designation of machines. Some of the architecture is a little behind the curve in respect to the PC bleeding edge tech we all love but that is to allow for the cleaning and bug-fixing of code and drivers to ensure a more stable and established combination of components to make a more reliable and stable machine.

If you had told me even just 6 months ago that I would even CONSIDER a Mac for my home I would have said you were a crackhead but, truth be told, I am seriously considering that Mac Mini more and more if for no other reason than to prove to myself one way or the other. While the Pro Line is much closer to a homebuild, they are still exclusive.

Is there fault to this line of reasoning? I would just rather do it on a machine I built with my own two hands, and without all kinds of necessary software Hacks. Wow, I underestated the derisive power of Apple v PC. Keep em coming! Oh, and Apple has made the spellchecker a core part of the operating system that any can utilize in any software with just API calls.

Red squiggles for everyone!!! Using a common dictionary so that if you add a word to the dictionary in the stickies app for instance think electronic post it notes, that word is available in the dictionary in all the other apps!

My idea is that Android products are great for the people who like the basis they are built on. I like Apple products for different reasons. They have their basis for the way they are built and they are pretty up front about it. Go try everything else and buy what you want. Learn about both and make your choice, then live and be happy!

I agree…. Is it because its hip to be an Apple hater? TMan, well said. There is often no reason to in a blank fashion condemn a company or platform. Technology is meant to assist us in doing certain things for us.

Why are we letting our own egos dictate that certain particular methods, companies, or platforms are uniformly better or worse?

Just use whatever is actually most suitable instead of going with unfettered opinionated decisions. Couple of quick things to clear up for the anti-Mac crowd. Oh, and you can buy a Razer or Logitech mouse and use it just like you would with a PC. While most people know this, some in the anti-Mac crowd like to keep trotting it out. As Mark mentioned, the iPhones are comparably priced to other smart phones.

In terms of desktops and laptops, Macs are more expensive, no doubt about it, but I think the price differential is exaggerated. The price differential narrows considerably when considering when you equalize the hardware. I find Macs more user friendly, though Windows 7 has closed the gap quite a bit. Replaced my main home PC with an iMac 4 years ago and never regretted it. Frequent Crashes: I am on a 7 month Windows 7 Installation, heavy usage and long uptimes. Got an iPad for 2 months and it already flaked 3 times, btw.

Bluescreen galore: Does Windows 7 even have those anymore? I have never seen one. I have however seen the Grey screen of despair on my Macbook a few times. Drivers Hell: Um, what? I installed Win 7, rebooted twice and all the Hardware was installed with the newest Drivers.

Viruses are Windows only: Now that Apple gets relevant in installed numbers, Virii are coming and they will hit hard because Apple machines are all the same which means one exploit works for all.

There is already a massive Mac-only botnet out there. Just research on how on every hacking competition the Apple platform is the first that falls. No crashes? I had a bunch of new Toshiba laptops foisted on me at work with Win7 pre-installed. I tried to launch IE and it crashed 3 times before it would launch. To a geek like me it was just an intense irritation. To someone like my mum who would have just bought the machine to shop on-line and send e-mail it would have been a frightening and frustrating experience.

Compare that to the beautiful experience when you turn an iMac on for the first time. As a graphic designer, I have had to cross platforms forever to accommodate my clients, printers, etc. I will admit after finally owning a Mac, that my design programs crash less frequently when I am doing intense graphic work, or if I have 4 graphics programs open at once. That is the main difference for me.

Otherwise I have no problem with either PC or Mac, and I find most of my decisions as to which one to use is based on what task I need done. I like having both in my house, I like having the option. Each serves its own purpose and has its place in my workflow. No need to hate on one or the other, what works best for you simply works best for you. Like the post. Still laughing. Here in my city, you need to step outside of buildings to make or receive calls, which gets old when the temp is , windchill I too spent many years arguing that Apple was the evil side of technology.

Closed systems, gated people away from the endless possibilities that lied out there. Turns out that some of the things that I hated about them are the reason why their products work. A pet peeve — not being able to make or receive a phone call on my cell phone. We can have both systems and we can each choose the other.

Before this iMac I had a old iMac that lasted 10 years. Before that I had a I think? If other approaches, such as Android, are superior, then they should be able to stand on their own. I have embraced Apple because I am the anti-geek. Apple lets you do what you want to do on a computer. Geeks are: anyone who weighs less than 95 lbs, or over lbs.

Wears really ugly glasses, has bad acne and worse teeth. Smells like Red bull and Marlboro Reds. I have another theory. Upon reading it a second time and watching my wife interact with her own iPad my judgment on the matter has changed.

The days of a lone inventor in his workshop are over. These days it takes a diverse team with a wide range of skills from software to hardware, arts to process with a common vision, to create the complex products we want for the future. Sure, it might not be as big a percentage… but it is a fairly large number of geeks who have jailbroken or hacked as the article states since day one on the iPhone and similarly on the iPad. But to say that Apple and Mac fans are not geeks or hackers does a bit of disservice to those of us that are thinking past the product release notes and trying to push our technology to the edge.

OSX and Linux let us do these things, if we choose, while Windows does not. OSX also lets us do things the easy way, without much thought and without wending our way through menu after menu. Windows — and Linux — do not. No CLI at all. Not even much in the way of menu choices. No expertise allowed, much less valued!

First, I still hate the on-screen keyboard. I don't have fat, weak, short, or stupid fingers. I have freakishly long fingers, I type over 60 WPM, and play the electric bass. My fingers are probably stronger and more agile than your average mom. But so help me, watching me type on that keyboard, one would think I was using my big toe and tongue to hack out a message in Dutch. And it doesn't matter how I orient the phone, I miss on about every other letter.

Thankfully the auto-fill is nominally intelligent and catches most of the stuff I fail at. Apparently auto-fill thinks I have a potty mouth as that sentence was supposed to be "Roast the peanuts and then fix the next batch," in reference to some holiday peanut butter cookies.

Thanks to my inattention, I sent that. To my mom. I also miss the back button. The Droid phones offer a back button that is reminiscent of your web browser's back button. It flips you back page for page through the various apps you were working in.

The iPhone 4 has something similar. You can double click the Home button and it will show you a list of all the apps running in the background, but it's not quite the same thing. Scroll through, select the right one, and you are there. It might just be a personal preference or a habit born of way too many hours on Internet Explorer. I know, antique browser technology. I use Google Chrome now, thank you.

But the back button is a forgetful mom's best friend. I have a terrible habit of forgetting why it is I left an app in the first place. I blame it on the kid. My third major issue with iPhone is the synching. It did not seem like such a dramatic ordeal to hook my Droid to my PC, move music files, pics, and videos from one to another.

Doing this on iPhone reminds me of planning a family vacation. It shouldn't be as complicated as it always is. First, you can only synch to one iTunes account. Because this is a company-issued phone I have my iTunes on my work PC.

Not a giant issue, as I spend more of my waking time at work than at home, all things considered. But I spend more of my time at home playing around in iTunes than at work. And if I get an itch to jam out to some old school Freezepop on Friday evening, I have to wait 'til Monday to get it on my phone. Chances are pretty great my longing for synth-pop will have faded by then.

Second, despite my every effort, and no small amount of knowledge about basic Windows operation, I can't get either device to stop deriding me for asking two rivals to momentarily cooperate. Every time I plug my iPhone into my PC I get a friendly window reminding me that "This device is not optimized for performance with your Apple device.