Okay, so maybe you’ve never had a problem with an Apple product but I know that I’ve had many issues and so has Xavier from Notebooks.com. Xavier has dealt with dead iMacs, dead batteries, and countless iPhone issues. It seems he isn’t cut out to be an Apple product user.
Apple is like any other company out there and is far from perfect, even though a lot of die-hard fanboys/girls will say otherwise. I think a lot of people are lying to themselves when it comes to Apple products, saying a product ‘just works’ isn’t true, saying it never crashes is yet another lie. Sure, there will be the exception where someone will have absolutely no issues, but overall, every product is flawed in some way (sometimes they even blow up).
I have dealt with dead iPods a few months after buying them, and an Airport Extreme that refuses to work when I need it most. But we’re interested to hear your experiences, what Apple products have you had fail on you?
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I have never had an Apple product fail on me. My Mac has maybe crashed twice in almost 3 years. Applications that do crash (although rare) is due to poorly written code, and is usually never Apple's. When an application does crash, the OS is never affected.
I purchased a MacBook in November. It had lots of problems hooking up with my Airport. Because it was the holiday season, getting help through the "genius" bar at my local Apple Store was a challenge. I could get appointments and they did take my machine in for repair – but the most annoying part was the 45 – 1 hr wait past my appointment time – both to drop it off and to pick it up.
Thanks Krye and Cydney for your comments.
Cydney, I had the same problem, I think it was the update at the time.
I had a devil of a time getting WiFi with WPA working on my new Macbook Pro. It would work fine without security, or with WEP, but WPA was a challenge. Took much more time than it did on XP. Part of that was probably my lack of experience with Mac OS, but if something should "just work" you shouldn't have to struggle!
I agree with you 100%. "it just works" is pretty much false advertising, sure its easier than others, but there are still many problems.
One of my biggest issues since I became a Mac user has been with WiFi.
Apple had their chance to impress me with the iPhone 3GS that I purchased last year. It has been an utter piece of crap, and I can't wait for my upgrade. It has failed to boot up on multiple occasions, frozen on thousands of occasions, asked me a billion times for a voicemail password that I never set up, and so on.
I'd hesitate to buy something else from them, to be quite frank.