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Apple's Products Are Far From Perfect

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Summary: Quality-wise and freedom-wise Apple's products tend to suck (a lot of battery power) if not explode in people's faces

THE problems with Apple were discussed here yesterday and also explored here over the years. To replace Microsoft with Apple is to replace proprietary with proprietary. It's like voting for one of the two dominant political parties in the UK or the US. Despite differentiation, none serves the users or the citizens; they serve power. Richard Stallman makes an additional careful remark about Steve Jobs the aggressor, stating that "Jobs saw how to make these computers stylish and smooth. That would normally be positive, but not in this case, since it has the paradoxical effect of making their controlling nature seem acceptable.



"To replace Microsoft with Apple is to replace proprietary with proprietary.""Jobs' death inspired a flood of articles lauding him for these very devices. That further increases their potential for harm, which is why now more than ever we must focus attention on it. We must not let secondary considerations about Apple or Jobs distract us from this threat until we have thwarted it."

Stallman has also criticised Android for legitimate reasons. There is no hypocrisy there. Android is likely to continue gaining at Apple's expense, especially because Apple lost its ability to make reliable products. First it was antennagate and now this:

Last week I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with my new iPhone 4S, as I relied upon it for email, web browsing, and Twitter. It was not a completely satisfactory experience. And it wasn’t because it sucked down the battery like its life depended on it (which, of course, it did). Over the course of an hour when the phone was supposedly idling its charge would drop 20 percent and the thing ran hot.


This one at least does not necessarily explode. Peter Köhlmann writes in USENET that "they're just using it wrongly. Apple are synonymous with perfection and you have to align your usage with that in mind."

"This is why Asia-based companies are winning market share share at Apple's expense, as gradually they become more independent from that American branding company.""I am certain that someone at apple will tell the world how to hold it correctly to use less power," remarks another poster sarcastically (referring to the antenna blunder). We wrote about that at the time.

Apple does not make those batteries. Apple buys these and it clearly does not know how to use them (Microsoft has the same type of problem). This is why Asia-based companies are winning market share share at Apple's expense, as gradually they become more independent from that American branding company.

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