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I think it’s high time I posted again. I’ve had a solid month to try and find something positive to post about, since I’ve been relatively negative lately. Unfortunately, it’s been a brutal month for Earth. John McCain sucks, Sarah Palin sucks, Barak Obama sucks and Joe Biden sucks. F. F. F. F. Burn After Reading sucked. F. The World Is Flat, eh. C. Gossip Girl season 2 premier - awesome. A-. Other than that though, just a boring month. Everything is leaving me with a really awful feeling of emptiness. Does anyone know anything anymore?
Anyways (that was the 4th word out of the past 5 to start with “any”), I think I’ll let you folks all know why Apple Inc. is one of the worst companies on the planet.
There are some really great reasons to hate Mac, which I will get to in a minute, but I think it’s important to first get some facts out there about the actual performance of the Mac’s most famous product: The computer. Granted, Apply has had incredible publicity with the Ipod line, Iphones, and even Itunes, but the great bulk of Apple Inc. is and will probably forever be it’s line of horribly ugly desktops and pretty good looking laptops. As such, the Desktop is where I will begin.
1) Fuck you, Mac OS X
2) Fuck you, Mac Computers
That about sums it up, but maybe you’d like some hard evidence. Macs are about half as fast as their PC equivalents. You might not have heard of this statistic before, because you’re probably an Apple fanboy that only goes to Apple websites or other fanboy websites. Did you know that Apple monitors and EDITS the forums on websites that they sponsor? I’m so surprised that they have good PR. They have positions at their company for people to surf the web and edit bad opinions of them. Wow. Just wow. Did you know that to build a PC from newegg.com with AT LEAST the same specs as the most expensive Mac, it would cost you 1,168 dollars less, and include a 19” widescreen LCD screen? And that according to Adobe tests, would run Photoshop 191% faster? That seems like a pretty ridiculous purchase, stupid Mac user.
Are you an artist or producer who wants to publish content on Itunes? Go here: http://www.aesthete-lounge.net/blog/2008/4/11/why-apple-sucks.html . Apple takes at least 1/3 of your profits. They effectively own the rights to your material. Sounds great.
Oh by the way, want to upgrade your desktop seemlessly? It should be really easy to shop around for the best hardware and insta… oh shit. Apple doesn’t allow ANYONE else to make hardware for their computers. Damn. Send your computer into an Apple store and get another gig of Ram for 180 dollars. Or buy 4gb of ram for 79 dollars from newegg.com and install it yourself in less than 5 minutes. I promise. I’ve done it 20 times. Anyone that buys a Mac desktop is a boner.
I’m already sick of the responses I’m gonna get from this post so I’m in turn getting sick of posting about it. Apple laptops are just as pretentious, but they are WAY better deals. They are only a few hundred dollars more expensive than their windows-using counterparts. And they actually look nice. But they’re still impossible to upgrade, far too expensive, and good for basically writing scripts and listening to illegal music.
IPhone is basically what Hitler would’ve built. All the articles I read about how awful Apple is handling user Apps actually are what lead to this post. Which leads me to my ultimate point. Forget all these facts and opinions, because you can surf the web and find 1000 articles that agree or disagree with me (if you want to know how fast a PC is, go use one - they work. I’ve had my current self-built PC for over 3 years and it can run Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Vegas at the same time while surfing the web and downloading music, with no problems. It’s a little slow, but it cost 400 dollars 3 years ago, so that can be expected. It’s a matter of how stupid you are and how you manage your files).
And here it is: Apple is everything they paint Microsoft to be. This is just like anything in life. Projection, as Freud would say. Republicans project on Democrats and Democrats project on Republicans. Apple wants you to think you are part of a priveleged class to be using their products. They charge obscene and downright offensive prices for products that simply don’t work as well as PC’s. Apple doesn’t ALLOW other people to make content or software or hardware for their computers!!! Isn’t that enough of a deal breaker?! They launch horrible smear campaigns at Windows, who does NOTHING in return. The spend BILLIONS on marketing to make you think you’re hip for using your Mac - you’re not!! You’re just a sheep in Steve Jobs incredibly greedy pocket. Now, is Microsoft great? No, it has tons of problems. But of the two, Apple is the evil empire. They are gonna keep releasing new versions of YOUR IPod every 9 months. They could just allow removable storage devices and have an upgrade cost 100 dollars less, but why should they? Every time they make the screen on that Nano 1 cm bigger, all the Jobsians will run to Best Buy and get 3 of them. Blah.
