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Well, that some consumers love. My problem is not their improving on, it's their claims of being the first, the inventor of, and for the most part that's just bolshevik. They were true innovators with their version of the home computer, but not so much original development since. So fan boys flame away, everyone has their own opinions thats mine and nothing to do with their putting out a quality product, which they absolutely do.

The “benchmark” of money and units sold - testify to a very large and very significant part of the consumer market loving it ... :-) ...

AND ... people who find Apple’s products absolutely amazing have already run across the very curious phenomenon of the “Apple-haters” who occupy themselves running around on the Internet and forums seeking out customers who find Apple’s products “amazing” — and incessantly telling them how much they hate Apple products!

I think it’s some kind of mental disorder of some sort.

They were true innovators with their version of the home computer, but not so much original development since.

I disagree. They have continued original development all along. Some of their creations sit in museums because of their originality. Other manufacturers create metal and plastic boxes that for the most part are mundane and similar to each other (sort of like jelly-bean design cars). Have you seen the Mac Cube? It's in the New York Museum of Modern Art. A lot of innovation packed in a beautiful cube. How about the 20th-Anniversary Mac TAM, combining TV, with a Bose stereo sound system complete with subwoofer (predecessor to the iMac)? Laptop Powerbooks were ahead of their time in 1991 and won awards. The Mac mini shrunk the power of a tower machine into a small square for the desktop. The iMac G4 was radically different, a moveable thin screen attached to a base like a desk lamp. The iMacs that followed were computers in a screen, with no visible base or tower needed. No other manufacturers were doing what Apple has done; they merely copied Apple's lead (or continued making rectangular metal boxes).