Apple sucks
Over the weekend, in getting ready for my trip Bangalore (via London, where I sit now with a long layover), I decided to download some episodes of “The Office” from the iTunes video store. I downloaded a few hours worth of video, dutifully paying for the video using the account I’ve used for all my iTunes purchases in the past.
After settling into my seat for the 10 hour flight to London, I booted up my laptop, ready to enjoy the videos I had downloaded and presumably paid for. Imagine my horror when I clicked “play” on the first episode and got this screen:
Of course, you have to be connected to the Internet to authorize, so I was out of luck for my whole flight.
Apple, you suck. (At the very least, build the authorization step into the download process — aren’t you known for obsessive user focus?)
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ouch - that does such chad…
i’ve been tivo’g my favorites and then putting them on dvd’s or even my psp lately, for just the reason you’re calling out - i wanted much more control of my desired media than what apple (or others) wanted to let go of…
Maaaaan that sucks!
What i find Bizarre is the ipod has an internal battery. Its alot more practical to own an MP3 player that uses regular batteries. Especially if you travel alot. I do.
I used an ipod for a long trip, and man its a nice toy but an impractical music player.
Chad, I recommend you just get rid of your computer and enjoy your trip!
Arnie
i just sold my ipod video, will be selling my imac g5, and never wanna hear about ‘apple supremacy’ again. apple sucks.
i’ll go with my sony vaio laptop and a new (non ipod) MP3 player.
Dude , you should have tested the songs with a net connection. You dont need a new laptop, you need some brains. If you are a iTUnes user , you should have know copying songs would need reauthorization. Get the “i” in iTunes? And for a mistake of yours, Apple Computers doesn’t suck. Get a life!!
Yes, Apple sucks:
1. iPod is the worst comsumer electronics product I have ever owned. It broke 5 times in less than 2 years and cost me hundreds in repairs. Lawsuit time.
2. Can’t install Quicktime on my PC without an error. Can’t uninstall Quicktime on my PC without an error. Now it’s just stuck there totally dysfunctional. Another POS product from Apple.
Since, apple switched hardware manufactuing form Tiwain to China, as well as getting popular; as well as Switching to intel; as well as opening retail stores; as well as hiring loser jock staff that had never owned a mac; as well as selling out; and as well as forgoing quality for price so that loser jocks could afford them… They have SUCKED ROYAL ASS… I miss the good old days of apple computers just working… Who would have guessed that all apple ever had to do to sell more computers was build them more shitty like PC’s… Man why do loser jocks rule the world???… APPLE YOU TRULEY DO SUCK…
Apple has sucked for a LOOOOONG time. Did you think the addition of their new iFag line would have changed anything?
Apple is the best! No virus no spam. Fast reliable and solid. Not like a pC. Kicked my Vaio Tower out of the window and was happy it was gone after i brought in my G5 flagship! Apple good work!!
mate i total agree with you, but you should of downlaoded those episodes from bearshare or limewire for free and it is legal to, and im sure they whould have been as good quality 2.
the apple company is a bunch of cheats and liars. heres proof, for you bunch of brainwashed, over-stimulated, starbuck’s drinking corporate whores:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1fc40360-abe9-11db-a0ed-0000779e2340.html
it’s really fascinating to see every almost person that owns a mac product become so over zealously defensive when you say “in the most factual terms, the actual cost verses specification of an apple piece of hardware is virtually less competent piece of hardware than the competing product of the same price VS specification”
…macky wacky men respond with “NO DUDE, your wrong!”
alright, DUDE, your iced latte is melting.
God I hate apple SO MUCH! I got an iPod mini, and after MONTHS OF WAITING, I went to the apple store and those idiots said they didn’t replace batteries anymore! Okay, fine! got an iPod mini battery replacement kit, waited a week for delivery, and the tools they provided were too big! They destroyed the screws and now I can’t even open it.
Yes, because 3rd party tools are apple’s fault…idiot. Just get enough money and pay them to change it, I work at an apple store and we change them, so you probably got a bad tech. But hey, have you ever called microsoft’s support team? I hope you understand east indian.
I used Apples heavily from the original ][ to the iMac, and APPLE SUCKS, and IT'S STEVE JOBS' FAULT. I wasted years languishing with the ][ line waiting for Apple to finally make a real machine, mainstream, so I could do some real work. Jobs had everything going well at first, but let us all down with the Apple ///, then the incompatible B&W Lisa and the toy Macintosh, and ruined everyone who picked Apple to hang their computing career on. I'm still behind because of all that wasted time and energy, I don't have it in me to put that out again.
Hello First I love lattes but I did like apple when I was A kid The IIE was cool but the screen was green. The macintosh had the windows from wich was stolen. It was crappy though and ever since then scools bought em up to spend extra money and they worked sometimes but most didn,t know how to use them so our education was painstaking. Now the line is too expensive and the I-pod maks me mad trying to corner the market the only thing good is the controls are smooth. the battery thing is so sad. The Sansa 2gig player uses a rechargeable battery but you can replace it easily. The usb cord charges it though I want to plug it in the wall. And they should have separate chargers with batteries installed so you can switch out rechargeables duh…Alkalines are a waste but the recharge batteries have to be workable or people won’t use them. Why not two batteries inside the mp3 one dies switch like your too huge truck fuel tanks. Apple does suck. Ohh green screens to green plastic not much has changed.
All of you guys who hate Apple are a bunch of cry babies. A lot of your problems come from your own stupidity! You guys must be Microsoft cheerleaders or something. And think Microsoft products are God gift to man. And (applephobe) what the deal with blaming your computing career on a computer company? I bet most of you are Vista lovers too………ha! ha!
Bill gates is a cheesy faggot, bullmer’s a f**ing psycho. Windows may have 90% of the computer market share, but it’s only because you tight arsed wank**s are too dumb to realize your operating system is shit!
OSx is amazing, Linux is a close second, Windows is a bucket of sh*t!
That’s just the way it is, accept it!
Yes, Apple sucks. I kind of like their computers. We’ve bought more of them than I can count over the years. My family must have at least half a dozen Mac Books and Mac Book Pros laying around the house. Recently I upgraded my ridiculously expensive G5 to a Mac Pro for… well a lot of money. Going on 5 figures.
Yet, when I showed up at the local Apple store the other night to buy another Mac Book Pro, Apple would not let me in the store!!! (I was with my 9 year old little brother, for whom I was buying the computer).
Why did Apple have a bouncer keeping us out? Special event for .Mac members only. Well, that’s insane, I said, but, if you insist on that insanity, I am a .Mac member! Do you have your card? Of course not — what kind of a geek carries around a .Mac card??? Oh, well, we can look you up. Give us your name (and a lot of other personal info). I gave them the name. Sorry, your .Mac membership expired a couple of months ago. So you’re not going to let me in? I’m here to buy a computer - and I just spend a gazillion dollars just a few weeks ago on a tricked-out Mac Pro. Nope, we’re not going to let you into the store. And we treat everyone the same, it’s not a question of money.
Apple has been long known for absolutely crappy customer service, but their arrogance and idiocy apparently knows absolutely no bounds. Do not expected to be treated with any favor whatsoever if you are a very, very good Apple customer — even if that favor is merely being treated with normal human decency and respect.
apple are shit , windows shit ? no , its the most popular , must means its the best , PC’s crap ? no , a high end windows PC costs the same as a VERY low end apple mac , mac don’t get virus ? of course it does not , apple only has 2% in the market , you think hackers and 3rd party companys are going to put effort into that 2% of prep machinary ? no , will an £600 mac play crysis no ? will my 600 quid PC play it ? yes, you apple fanboys can say all you like about window users , but at least we get value for money , a beter machine , and look less of a cunt.
You all suck! Honestly I have to say I hate it when people constantly point out the shortcomings of a fucking computer! Apple Microsoft big fuckin deal! like it matters! All im saying is that if you have problem about anything plz its time you waltz up to those faggots and shove your computer up their fatass!
Now i aint no tough guy! But i believe we should take down those fucking corporations
First of all, Itunes sucks. I lost alot of my music to a faulty hard drive and even though apple has record of songs you download via itunes, they won’t let you download them more than once. Yeah I know, I should have backed it up but it was kind of a freak incident. Oh, and if you don’t purchase Apple care you might as well not waist your time looking for customer service because they will charge you $40 per phone call!! Why buy apple care when they don’t even cover damage? Best buy’s plan is cheaper and covers everything, and best of all you don’t have to deal with the pretentious apple cult.
Apple computers believe their users are plain stupid and dumb (which they usually are). They don’t have enough brains to find a button that is smaller than 10 inches on the screen. If a button is small they will simply get stuck since they have gotten used to a very stupid terminology that Apple has come up with. Steve Jobs is really disdainful person and he is full of hate against Bill Gates. This hate has two reasons: 1) Microsoft has a revenue of 14 billion USD in 2007 and Apple has had only 4 billion. 2) is that Steve Jobs never thought somebody who worked for Apple (Bill Gates) could create a software bigger than Apple and be more successful than his presumably “manager”.
Apple spends lots and lots of money trying to bring PC users down. As an Assembly programmer, I can say that the internal architecture of the PC is clinging to the old times and especially when the CPU is operating in Real Mode at start up. However, when the CPU is switched to the Protected Mode which has been supported since the 286 Intel CPU, the CPU will just blow every CPU that has been built into Apple computers ever created.
Apple has to deal with the fact that their users are stupid and so is the company. The company is running by stupid people. The softwares are not even comparable with PC’s software base and it simply is not enough for even an average user. From a programmer’s point of view, Apple has simply “nothing” to offer to programmers. Maybe it has something in store for its users but that doesn’t stop Microsoft from being a HELL LOT bigger than Apple is.
Conclusion? Apple is not ever going to be able to be as successful as Microsoft. Deal with it :)
Hi Chad,
I just thought I’d let you know there’s been a recent list of “Why Apple Sucks” in the MakeFive community. Maybe you folks would like to share a thought or two on the subject?
http://www.makefive.com/categories/technology/technology/things-that-suck-about-apple
Cheers
I bought an Apple computer a year ago. One month after I bought it the hard drive failed. I took it back to the store and they kept it for a month trying to figure out how to fix it. Eventually they did return it and it worked for another three months. I took it back to Best Buy again, but they refused to do anything for me even though they had sold me an extended warranty. They refused to honor their extended warranty, and it wasn’t worth it to me to do anything about it. My experience with Apple is that their products are complete crap. I would never buy anything from them again.
I own a mac book pro.
I have dropped my notebook MBP several times.
I have thrashed my HD many times.
Well here’s my spec’s:
Model Name: MacBook Pro 15″
Model Identifier: MacBookPro2,2
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 3 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP22.00A5.B07
SMC Version: 1.12f5
Serial Number: W87150R3W0G
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
For all of you who speak against mac, or apple computers.
You don’t know!
I have worked with microsoft and windows of every kind.
PC’s are cheaper to start with, but over the time span of six months you become so use to drama that you don’t even realize how much money goes into purchasing all sorts of software, and hardware.
Well that’s my take.
Like I said, negative feeders don’t know a thing about mac.
Drama, PC stands for “piece of crap”.
That is what you get for stealing, killing,and being greedy.
Wow, the thief has left the building and resigned.
Yes it is true, Apple computers really really do suck! It is A FACT! It has been shown time and time again that all Apple products are hugely overpriced. You can get comparable performance from any Dell machine at less then half the price.
Yes it is true! Look it up. I use a cheap clone PC at work that has only 700 megs of ram and it constantly outperforms a friend’s G5 imac in every category. At work I use the PC to run a shape cutting machine. The system, ten years old, runs flawlessly. Apple Computers is a scam perpetrated on the gullible. If you use any Apple product, You Have Been Scamed!!
My favorite comment is from ‘Sombody.’ I quote, “Apple has simply “nothing” to offer to programmers. Maybe it has something in store for its users but that doesn’t stop Microsoft from being a HELL LOT bigger than Apple is.”
So this moron thinks that it’s bad for a computer company to focus on users rather than programmers? What’s a dumbass. Yeah, everybody that buys a computer wants to do programming…or maybe they want to do some work with documents, photos, movies, music, email….
That’s like saying auto companies should build cars for mechanics rather than drivers.
“For all of you who speak against mac, or apple computers.
You don’t know! I have worked with microsoft and windows of every kind.”
I also worked with both… and I was mac adict until the Evil Steeeeeeve Moron Jobs killed MacOS and replaced it by a bad Unix plagiat with an ugly Aqua fat uncostumable DosShell (since the stupid Steeeeve kill AppearanceManager). The Steeeeve also scrapped resources and type-creator. Two of the most beautyfull features of MacOS (the real one). And sudently started to say us that powerPC suck and Intel is the best. Even if the day before he told us the opposite! Now that remain nothing of the mac and apple pruoduce PC clones runing a bad UNIX or windoze. Affter many many year of mac, I finaly switch to PC (any way an intel junk for an other) running a real Unix free of charge called LINUX.
So They can sink in bankrupcy I no longer care about this bucket of bad Steeeve!
Now maybe you won’t diss people who go for the free (as in both) version?