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I don’t hate apple, but I avoid it at all costs. The reason can be summed up in one word: Proprietary.

I’ve gotten so bad that it affected my wife’s phone purchase a few weeks ago. Her LG G3 died. Her company is iPhone friendly but you can use Android devices with a bit of work around. So we thought we’d finally bite the bullet and get an iPhone.

Then I remembered, you can’t change the battery. Then I remembered, you can’t use an industry standard charging/usb connection. Then I noticed, the iPhone was $500 more expensive than an LG G4 (which is what I have and really like.

So, it is more expensive, we’d suddenly have to start carrying around and purchase (at significantly higher prices) charging chords for her phone specifically. Everything is more expensive. And then there is the whole iTunes thing.

Meh. We got her the G4. She loves it.

About the computers.

I used to be a hi-fi and video salesman in the late 70’s and early 80’s. I can say with confidence that Beta was better than VHS. I had two beta VCR’s. Loved them. ‘Course, I couldn’t swap tapes with my friends because they all had VHS. And all beta machines were really expensive, so most people just bought VHS. I learned my lesson and abandoned Beta, even though I believe it to be better. Life got a lot simpler. And VHS really was “good enough” for what I had it for.

I see Apple as Beta, except it got a large enough following that it didn’t go away. But the issues remain. It’s more expensive. It is highly proprietary, and you are somewhat limited in functionality in a business world that is mostly PC.

I have a friend who is a graphic artist. He uses both Apple computers and PC’s. He likes both and is frustrated by both. He sees the apple as the winner for his graphics stuff, but prefers the PC for everything else.

Apple really lost me when they forced people into the small floppy, and again when they forced people into the CD. I haven’t followed them since then, but I’ve read some complaints here about iTunes, etc.

The funny thing is marketing. I’ve said that if you came to this planet and only knew what you saw in movies, you would have the following misconceptions:
1. a lot of our presidents were black.
2. Most people use Apple computers.

I don’t hate apple, but don’t consider it to be a good value and meet my convenience standards for the things for which I use a computer. YMMV

And yeah, it’s more the Apple geeks that get my panties in a bunch, not the products.