apple great desing

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When MP3 players came out, the Ipod was crap but the competition was ****e?

The first generation iPod actually is the best of all MP3-Players ever released! It even outshines todays offerings from any company. It had only 4 flaws:
1) It wasn't designed for heavy duty outdoor use, like offroad biking
2) It wouldn't fit your entire music library
3) It was formatted in HFS+
4) It was expensive - like crazy!

It had the perfect user interface. Did its job well and was open to be used as a harddrive. It was small enough to be taken everywhere. The battery would last through an entire multi-volume audiobook and then some.

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Apple just plain old SUCKS. Hope they rot in hell.

Yeah, in a way Apple is just like Microsoft, they just don' t care about anyone who is not them and consequently alienate everyone who is not a diehard supporter.

The sad thing is, when you looked at Apple at the end of the Gil Amelio aera, you'd think they changed for the better. But Apple is still a hardware company who just happens to make their own software, because they are not satisfied with anybopdy elses. They wholeheartedly take the money from their customers, but they don' t expect them to use the computer for anything clever or original.

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Steve Jobs was an awful, awful person and there's no way I'd willingly and directly line his coffers further.

I don't think you are doing the man justice. Steve Jobs was no villain. While he certainly wasn't particularly nice to many people, Wozniak wasn't one of them. Jobs was a positive force in many situations, because he didn't accept any authority. So neither IBM nor the MPAA could scare him. The iTunes motto "Rip, Mix, Burn" would never have happened under a more cautious person. Steve wanted the computers to be perfect. If he bought a computer, he didn't want them to be expandable, because he didn't want to buy accessories or expansions. Everything had to be inside the box from day one. He just couldn't think of anyone to really want something else.

Steve was often misunderstood and misquoted, but he also trusted in the opinions of some people, whom we wouldn't and had a way of not thinking about the things that many of us find hard to accept. But I have to give the man credit: he pushed technology forward into the spotlight, that might have been ignored for the wrong reasons.