I still don’t like their computers, but they make a great phone and the iPad is very good. I gave my iMac and my Macbook Pro to a colleague last week because they just sit there gathering dust. I’m not giving away my iPad or iPhone.
My friend Mike is an Apple fanboi. He gets the latest iPhones and gives me his used ones. I just got my used iPhone 5. Very good phone. I had to buy my own iPad.
It sounds like you never even tried to use them if they were collecting dust. You have to use them to understand them and then learn to appreciate them. Every person I know who has switched from a Windows machine to a Mac has later asked why they did not switch earlier, once they got past about a two week learning curve.