Apple: Hype vs. Reality [CHART]
It's starting to seem like every year around this time, everyone starts talking about an upcoming release from Apple. This year is no different, though things seem somehow quieter this time around ...
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IPOD: Hype: A revolution in music players. Reality: Original concept was made in the1979.
Replyfor my money (what there is of it) I think Apple's best product is the iPod Touch. All the cool gadgetry of an iPhone without the $100++/mo usage fee. I've never tried the iPad (doesn't seem worth it to pay $500 for a bigscreen iPod Touch), but I've used Apple computers off and on since 1997. They were unforgiveably bad until OSX. Now they're perfectly usable, just too expensive.
ReplyI'm a mac user but a PC at heart. I just don't have time to make my PC a god of a machine..but back in my prime i was building s**t that Optimus could call worthy.
ReplyMy uncle bought me an iPod when I was fourteen and it somehow has survived through six years, through countless parties and change of houses and being kicked across the street when it falls out of my pocket. It's leading me to the conclusion that it is not an iPod but some sort of sentient synthetic life form. A precursor to the Geth.
ReplyI love how apple charges you $3000 for a desktop for the "aesthetics" and the most it can run is 3D Pinball
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesCustom-build PC: $800 and capable of Ultra graphics on Skyrim and at least High on Crysis 2
Bam
SNES wins.
Yeh but apple products are pretty.. so.. well... fuck.
Eh, I can run Psychonauts and TF2 on my Mac, and that's enough for me.
It's kind of the like the SNES vs. Sega Genesis arguments I got into in the fourth grade.
ReplyMy laptop's an HP and I like it, but I honestly do not understand what the difference is. I use whichever computer is available at the library and they all work fine for me. Then again, I can't tell the taste difference between Coke, Diet Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, etc., so whatever. I just don't get why people get so aggressive about it.
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesIf there's no coke at a store I filp a table and scream at people :D
DR. pepper isnt even "cola" flavored, like coke or pepsi! I understand not tasting the difference between coke and pepsi, but Dr. Pepper? really?
Wolf, I understand. I don't taste the difference between those sodas either. But, I blame the rum/cognac for my lack of sensitivity.
People get aggressive about it because of age-old tribal mentality, that is "be on our side, or f**k off". The truth is, opposing products of the same type actually serve their own ideal purposes for different tasks. I'm told that Macs are used in almost 90% of the graphic design field. Not surprisingly, most students in the design program I'm in are of the "Apple or GTFO" mentality.
Sad.
Steve Jobs, marketing genius, turns a 3% market share into a powerhouse company, one of the best men ever.
ReplyBill Gates, runs largest charity foundation in the world, plans to donate 95% of his wealth, the devil.
Lesson learned, if you're suave enough to convince people you're a good guy, you don't have to actually do anything good.
This
lol sperm
Before Steve Jobs died he told someone he absolutely hated Android and he wanted to stop them. Just thought I'd point out to the the fanboys their precious creator of Apple saw android as good enough as Apple to be a threat. :) Wait... Droids? a man threatening to stop a robot themed company? s**t Steve was assassinated by a android robot, or a terminator if you will. my god, it all makes sense now.
Reply"Before Steve Jobs died he told someone..."
Sounds like solid factual stuff to me!
They're only computers.
ReplyUntil the can please my happy parts. Then they become soulmates.
i love how apple pretends to be 'young and edgy' when the majority of their costumers are old people who are so desperate about 'being left behind' they are willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money just to be able to convince themselves they are tech-savy
Replyfail. and there was so much promise...
ReplyYeah, I work at a place that sells tablets (no iPads, but they are all the same) and they are basically smartphones that you cannot make calls on. If you have the money for the service and the patience for WiFi, they are great. And that's the NON-APPLE ones. I use iTunes, I love it. I have an iPod, I love it. I have used a Mac, it was a pain in the ass (and all i used it for was art). I admit, Apple is good, but they are not God, as some Apple users say.
Reply Hide All See All 6 RepliesAnyway, that's my two cents. I like the chart, to sum up. =D
Cool story bro.
I have never, in my entire life, seen or heard anyone say that apple products are God. I have never seen anyone get worked up about how awesome apple products are. What I see on a daily basis is people complaining about how avid apple fanboys are. I use Apple and PC and I like them both for different reasons.
^Frankly, the Apple haters are worse than the Apple fanbois.
I couldn't agree with you more. That screed is almost as stupid as the person who said that the MAJORITY of Apple's customers are old people. WTF????
No, the fanboys are real, I know some. I know people that camp out together outside of the local apple store for new releases (may not seem so bad since people camp to see movies and buy games but to me it's all crazy). They swear by all apple products and trash people who don't think it's worth their money.
I like apple products fine, but the geeks who rave about them make me want to kick puppies.
Yeah, like Selena said, the fanboys do exist. And they've always existed. The strangest thing about Apple was how they've always had this hardcore fanbase. You won't find them much on the internet because they're still so few in number, in terms of being out there, but go to a college, coffee shop, any place you can find a hipster, and you'll find them.
I can understand the last one. My carrier is T-Mobile, and I let out the biggest sigh of relief when the merger with AT&T fell through.
ReplyI didn't understand the graphs or the jokes at all. call me stupid. I don't care
ReplyYou're stupid.
He's made good on his promise to not care
Nothing about Viruses, huh? Mac book + cheap phone = end of conversation.
Reply Hide All See All 6 RepliesApples dont get viruses? Tell that to my company we get attacked all the time and it seems all the idiot photoshop marketing department's Macs are always infected.
Meanwhile I've been virus free on my PC for two years since I got Windows 7 despite a number of risky online behaviors.
Congratulations, now can you use it?
You have to be doing some pretty under the table s**t to get OSX infected.
apples don't get viruses? well they can blow your balls off which i'd say is worse.
I kinda like the viruses on Windows anyway. Weeds out the people who shouldn't be allowed to use computers.
"Free wallpapers from a random pop-up window? How can I lose!?"
Heh heh heh... I am so sleep deprived... I thought it meant apple, not Apple. XD I wondered why they were so excited about fruit. X3
ReplyThat would have been about 10 times better.
I think iTunes is probably a bigger deal than iPods. The main distinguishing feature between iPods and every MP3 player that came out in the 5 years before it was iTunes. Couple that with iTunes being the first foray into digital distribution for most companies and I'd say it's definitely the bigger deal.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesExcept the fact that iTunes is the Hitler of music players, requiring you to do everything the way it wants you to. Fine for normal playback, but if you want to do anything more than that (or god forbid- use plugins) you're fucked.
thing about itunes is that its more expensive than downloading from amazon, and the time it takes to download 1 song on itunes you can download a descent-length album from amazon and import it to itunes. ipods, on the other hand, don't suck
just checking, anyone figure out how to export music from iTunes? had it for a year, nothing I tried worked. And I'm not the average 'call the geeksquad for any stupid little bug' user.
macs are still awesome
Reply Hide All See All 9 Replieswhats "awesome" about macs is that there are still people dumb enough to buy that shovel-ware.
I've got a $600 HP desktop w/ a $100 power supply and a $100 AMD 5760 added to it. The closest thing that Apple offers to that? $3,200.
Get. The. Fuck. Out.
Generally people don't buy shovelware. It's as popular as Windows, so there's got to be SOME reason behind it. Because of this, I just use bootcamp, and problem solved. (accidental plugging?)
Goddamn hipsters.
I'm typing this on a Mac. Macs suck major donkey balls and are not nearly worth the money you have to pay for them. The only reason this thing hasn't been set on fire and thrown onto railroad tracks is because I'm too broke to afford a real computer.
For the record, I'm talking the overall quality of the computer. The OS in and of itself is alright, but I will be returning to Windows when I can afford a new computer.
Yeah if you want to go into debt.
Well I've got a AMD phenom II x4 970 a AMD Radeon HD 5770 8 gigs of ddr3 ram a 1 terrabyte hard drive. Thats a pretty good system (600 $ cause i built it myself but I still can't play GTA IV on max settings!!!!!!!!
yeah awesome; except of course for the ridiculous licenses, the lack of good software, the lack of customizability, the evil company behind it, and the lack of usefulness, it's just great
Awesome for me kick around.
Lol I started pirating BECAUSE of iTunes. f**k DRM. I will do whatever I goddamn want with my music!
Reply Hide All See All 5 RepliesIs it your music if you pirated it? SRS question.
Is it yours if you don't?
did it every really belong to anyone to begin with?
You can do whatever you want with *someone's* music, but US/most Western copyright laws are clear - you don't own other people's creations.
"Is it your music if you pirated it?"
It is now.