blog.wired.com — Apple has staked its reputation on tight control of a few carefully-designed, faultlessly-executed products. Now, as Apple expands its reach from computers into music, video, consumer electronics and phones, it's getting harder and harder for the company to make sure all of its products "just work," as its marketing slogan goes.
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luckyemsJul 26, 2008
Apple would be more awesome if iTunes wasnt s**t
punkcatJul 26, 2008
im not the one who abandoned critical thinking and accepted the article as quality.so i believe you gain the title as fanboy, nor did i say anywhere Apple is omg awesome, merely pointed out people need to keep common sense, s**t can go wrong and will for anyone.oh and nice slam about butt plugs, took the steam out my argument thats for sure.
innerkaosJul 26, 2008
They're getting a good market share of the consumer computer area, but it could just be because schools are starting to require them, and girls find Justin "I'm a Mac" Long 'dreamy'.
tyr7beJul 26, 2008
"The thing that really annoys me about Apple, now more then ever, isn't the company itself but the mindless consumers toting it and praising it and turning what's otherwise a product into some sort of quasi-religious experience."Indeed.I saw a piece the other day on the 3G iPhone - some camera crew was going around the city asking people who had a first gen iPhone how they liked it. I remember one woman in particular who seemed to sum up every response. It went something like:News Crew: "How do you like your iPhone after using it for a year?"Lady: "Oh you know, it's pretty great. I can email people, and set reminders, and text, and [etc etc etc, everything that all smartphones have been able to do since 2003 but nobody seemed to know about]"News Crew: "What's your biggest complaint?"Lady: "Ummm...well....I still can't type on it"Can't type? And it's still "pretty great"? I think that's a pretty damn big problem. How are you going to be doing your emailing and calendaring and everything else my Blackberry 6000 series did in 2004 without being able to type? But still, this thing is "pretty great"...yeah....now if you could just figure out how to do all the things it's supposed to do it would be even better.This is exactly what you're talking about. People have gotten so doe-eyed about a phone that all things considered has a pretty slim feature set, that they're willing to overlook pretty much everything. Five hours of battery life with push email and exchange turned on? No problem! Rebooting your phone all the time due to buggy firmware? That's cool, it's an iPhone, why WOULDN'T I want to reboot it? No removable battery? It's how it's designed, it's SUPPOSED to be that way. Still can't play music via Bluetooth? Who needs to listen to music anyway?This isn't the majority of consumers - most of them are pretty sensible about the whole thing and can see it for what it is - a pretty decent phone all around, has a nice UI, but nothing to write home about. But there's a core of Apple apologists that pretty much cream their jeans whenever there's a reported Steve Jobs sighting, and it seems that no matter how bad things are in reality, they will always see the iPhone as a perfect and pure religious icon rather than accepting it as a product.
strategynodeJul 26, 2008
You're right, Apple does need to take responsibility for its products. It would go over much better with the public if they just came out with it and said that they screwed up.
lewijiJul 26, 2008
Yeah. Doing powerpoint presentations is hugely enjoyable!
addiktionJul 27, 2008
I've had to reboot my ipod touch 2.0 firmware quite a bit. Although I think some is contributed to the applications. Either way your only as good as the code you write.I do think Apple is gaining and growing more profitable but like many said the end result of a growing company giant is poorer quality over quantity. Only great innovative & monopoly companies pioneer themselves into the main stream and stick around by dominating the markets. You can't make everyone happy and well lets face it Apple can't stay small forever.