Speaking as someone married to a Steve Jobs fanboy, as someone who enjoys the use of Apple products: I'd rather go anywhere in the world besides the Apple Store. They make you wait on purpose so you're forced to piddle with their newest and latest while surrounded by iZombies. It's. Horrid.
Don't get me wrong, in bad dreams my iPhone is replaced by something non-iPhone and I die a little inside. So maybe I'm an iZombie, too. But this whole "Apple is so cool customers wait on Apple" thing is seriously wrong.
That being said the guys in the back of our apple store worked on my son's out of warranty 2004 iMac for free. But those are the guys in the back. Not the "geniuses."
God I hate Apple marketing so hard.
Back in the day, before iPods, Apple was abot Macs. And Apple users, not iPod users, were the driving market. Okay, so it wasn't big enough and Apple nearly died. Details, details. But Mac users weren't passive enterainment consumers. They were totally geeking over blue and white towers with the sides you can open and everything. Mac users loved their macs and tweaked them out with extensions. They regularly sent software updates to Apple and often the best extensions were made into OS updates.
No more. Apple doesn't listen to Mac users. Mac users aren't te bread and butter. Apple is a phone and media company that dabbles in computers. They don't even use moterola processors anymore! Macs are pentiums! Ten years ago no Mac user in ther right mind would ever believe Jobs'd do that. But he did.
I could go on an on about my lovehate for Apple. TooLong;Didn'tRead: Great products, terrible company.
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Don't get me wrong, in bad dreams my iPhone is replaced by something non-iPhone and I die a little inside. So maybe I'm an iZombie, too. But this whole "Apple is so cool customers wait on Apple" thing is seriously wrong.
That being said the guys in the back of our apple store worked on my son's out of warranty 2004 iMac for free. But those are the guys in the back. Not the "geniuses."
God I hate Apple marketing so hard.
Back in the day, before iPods, Apple was abot Macs. And Apple users, not iPod users, were the driving market. Okay, so it wasn't big enough and Apple nearly died. Details, details. But Mac users weren't passive enterainment consumers. They were totally geeking over blue and white towers with the sides you can open and everything. Mac users loved their macs and tweaked them out with extensions. They regularly sent software updates to Apple and often the best extensions were made into OS updates.
No more. Apple doesn't listen to Mac users. Mac users aren't te bread and butter. Apple is a phone and media company that dabbles in computers. They don't even use moterola processors anymore! Macs are pentiums! Ten years ago no Mac user in ther right mind would ever believe Jobs'd do that. But he did.
I could go on an on about my lovehate for Apple. TooLong;Didn'tRead: Great products, terrible company.