[darkpuppet]

ANTHONYD,Aug 1 2008, 09:57 AM Wrote::lol:

You don't support Apple because it pains you to admit that they offer a superior product.

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Apple doesn't have a superior product per se -- but they offer a superior user experience.

You can do more with a blackberry, HTC smartphone (or hell, any number of other smart phones out there) than an iPhone. You can get much better MP3 players like the zune -- which offered wifi a long time ago, a subscription service for unlimited music and the ability to 'poke' music onto other zunes which Apple is rhumored to be just working on now.

Considering the new iPhones are suffering cracks due to the switch to 100% plastic construction, apple's historical indifference to battery life (any lithium battery will be dead in a year's time if you have to charge it every day), and their buggy OS (the macbook freezing/rebooting issue was a longstanding problem with the keyboard drivers), I wouldn't say that they offer a superior product.

However, I can't argue about the user experience.. when things work, they work spectacularily well -- and that's always been apple's strong point and they built their brand around it.

Just look at the surveys... when people think innovation, they think Apple.