I decided to bump this thread because I found this article.I love my iphone and ipod,but this article pretty much sums everything I hate about apple.
http://ca.tech.yahoo.com/blogs/the_worki...ticle/4531
It's hard to remember a time when Apple wasn't the coolest company on the planet. In 1984, the company made its voice heard with a groundbreaking Super Bowl ad that launched the Macintosh to the world.
In 2001, the iPod was released. In 2007, we got the iPhone. Today, hundreds if not thousands of blogs exist with the sole charter of writing about Apple every day, and coverage from the mainstream media ranging from USA Today to the Wall Street Journal is, to put it mildly, fawning to the point of embarrassment. Apple has seemingly done no wrong for a decade.
But the tide is clearly changing, and Apple is finding itself increasingly on the defensive against allegations that it has become stodgy, overbearing, mean-spirited, and even uncool.
It's hard to determine exactly when and where Apple lost its groove. Was it when the company brought the hammer down on iPhone tinkerers, "bricking" jailbroken iPhones? Was it when the company began threatening to delete applications from the app store because it didn't like how they were developed? Or when it asked the cops to raid the house of a blogger who wrote about an unreleased product? Or when a Pulitzer Prize winner's cartoon was banned from the app store? Or when Apple's "no nipples on your iPhone" policy led an edgy fashion magazine to dub its censored iPad version the "Iran Edition?"
Don't get me wrong, I'm still an iPhone fan, but society as a whole seems to be over it. The cachet of whipping out your iPhone at a restaurant is all but gone now: you're more likely to witness rolled eyes while the real oohs and aahs are directed at the guy with the latest Android handset. While the facts remain in question, it's not hard to believe that Android is now outselling the iPhone, at least in certain circles.
But there's no doubting that Apple has been spending the last several months digging its own hipster grave as it becomes an angry sourpuss of a company that many have started comparing to Microsoft, something that was unthinkable only a few years ago.
And Apple may actually be even worse than Redmond. Consider the Gestapo tactics of firing overly chatty employees and, in perhaps the dumbest move from the company ever, sending a team of cops to break down the door of a Gizmodo blogger and seize his computers, all over a misplaced cell phone. Apple prizes its secrecy — a tactic that has been incredibly successful at building buzz and placing free media stories for years — but now that secrecy has turned mean-spirited, the business equivalent of the old man yelling at kids to get out of his yard.
The situation isn't dire (yet), but it's not great. After all, when pop culture stalwarts like Jon Stewart and The Simpsons start mocking you, it's kind of hard to regain your cool, kooky commercials or not.
Rest assured, Apple mania isn't likely to go away anytime soon. I mean, if Betty White can return to the pop-culture eye, anyone can. But even if the coolness has worn off, unless Apple stumbles by releasing a truly awful product or gets caught up in a financial scandal, it's tough to see the masses turning against it for good.
On second thought, the company already had the financial scandal. No one much cared.
There were iPhones to think about.
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