[Overstim]

1- This case was so wildly misrepresented and misunderstood. They weren't suing to reveal the identity of legitimate or even illegitimate journalists, they were suing to disclose the names of people who VIOLATED THEIR NDAs- a LEGAL document! What good are NDAs if they cant be enforced? The judges' ruling on this was a big mistake.2- I still don't see how keeping secretive over product announcements is anything but good business. "Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and company love to talk about their company's upcoming products". Oh, really? So when is the new Zune coming out?3- Totally true. Apple was really lame on that one.4- I don't see how you can fault APPLE when OTHER COMPANIES rip off Apple's trademark. Sure, maybe they pushed the whole thing a bit too far but, At least they are starting to see the light. Apple TV, as cited.5- Again, right on the mark. Leaving out BluRay & HD DVD is quite odd for a company who's business model is "you want it? You got it. And you're gonna have to pay big time for it." Come on Apple, lets have Bluray! Overcharge me for it!6- Since when is not being perfect reason to be hated? Thats harsh, guys.7- Again, right on the money.8- Correct. And now with bootcamp, developers have even less reason to port their games to Mac! "Macs? Eh, just reboot if you want to play Halo4, whats the big deal?" Boot Camp is going to make Mac gaming go extinct.9- I'd still prefer three choices to Dells disaster of a store, with too many choices to count and conflicting upgrade options and prices on every page. And tell me one company thats making MONMEY with those tablets and ultraportables. But Apple SHOULD go back to the upgradable iMacs! Offer hard drive upgrades! And stop overcharging for RAM!10- Aren't you guys tired of this one yet? iPods dont play WMA files because they suck! And don't blame Apple for not opening up DRM- blame the RIAA! They are who demands an iron-clad DRM solution, and the only way Apple can even hope for that is by keeping it closed. Like any of you would shop at the iTunes store anyway, if you could put the songs on your Zunes. (all three of you). You'd just find something else about the store to whine about.

[dlauber]

Turn the computer world around and imagine a computer world in which Apple dominated and Microsoft-based PCs were the tiny, but arrogant, uppity minority of 5% or less. No better yet, don't because Apple has shown that it would be far worse than today's Windows-dominated computer world. If you think Microsoft operates repressively and controllingly with great arrogance (and denial about security weaknesses), you haven't been paying attention to the way Apple works. That's perhaps Apple's most serious sin and what one could really hate about Apple. Now I don't hate Apple, but I dread to think how narrow our choices would be in a computer world dominated by Mr. Jobs and his minions.

[jeffshaught]

The '10 Things We Hate About Apple' pales into comparison to the '1,000 Thing We Hate About Microsoft." Nice try, though.

[xxybermancer]

Honestly, who uses WMA?There are two people who use WMA, and most people fall under the major catagory of 'clueless.' These are the people who put their CD into their computer, tell WMP to rip it and don't worry about what file format or quality level.The second are misguided users who assume WMA is a superior format. Which, it can be, depending on the encoder. If LAME is used the fidelty tends to be better with decent enough compression. Plus...you never have to worry about a DAP not playing it!And if you're just looking for quality and advanced sound Vorbis is the ticket.WMA? Please. Die a dirty death. Needs to go more than Sony's ATRAC.

[WaltBasil]

Mac user here, and MacWorld subscriber. I liked the article, and could agree with most of it. My only gripe, if you could call it that, is with #10. I say so what. If you don't like playing your music on the iPod, then don't buy songs from iTunes. Different strokes for different folks though. Enjoyed the article.

[cjinsomniac]

[quote name='climacs']This whole article just reeks of Mac envy. Why don't you just go buy a Mac and get over it already?Didn't they just SAY they were Apple users? Didn't they just SAY there were things they loved, and hated? Yes, and yes. As far as envy, why would anyone envy those poor souls trapped in the RDF? Not everyone wants to be assimilated... Why not " just get over" that.

[rossgram]

Well I hate those dang popup ads that are all over your site that I need to dismiss to continue reading your articles. Get rid of those, too.

[socokid]

If that's all you've got (some of them are just plain silly), then I feel better about my Mac purchase. I mean come on... you don't like the iNames? That's a complaint? Seriously? And the gaming thing: Boot Camp. Deciding whether "hard core gamers" "go that route" or not doesn't even make any sense! A new Mac can run Windows games just as if it were on a Windows machine. Period. Are you OK in the head my man, or was it just that hard to come up with a real list that went all the way up to 10? hahaha, good stuff...

[kgelner]

Is this article really old? How can you even write something like point #10 on May 7th, 2007. Instead of spreading around DRM as the articles authors would have Apple do (licence out Fairplay to other companies) isn't a much better way to get things interoperating to drop DRM altogether, which is exactly what Apple is proceeding to do? When the DRM is removed from songs you'll be able to play them on an iPod - and a Zune, or anything else that supports the open AAC standard for music. Doesn't get much more intereoperable than that. Should happen sometime this May with EMI, and probably a few other companies as well.

[micropat]

Feel free to post your Apple rants/suggestions here if you'd like: http://www.fevote.com/appleAlso, vote on the other suggestions you agree with. Hopefully this will one day get to Apple modify their corporate/PR strategies. Hopefully!

[macaholic]

Overall nice article, some parts may be exaggerated, but I have 1 comment on number 10. "And if you import WMA files into iTunes, you must wait while the application converts them to its favored AAC format." Last time I checked you can choose what format anything imports into, AIFF, AAC, MP3, WAV, and Apple Lossless. Granted thats not a whole lot but they make it seem like the only choice you have is AAC.

[Ceadderman]

[quote name='samelkh']Agree with everything you mention except number 2. They do not want Microshaft to copy what they do. Remember the first release of windows and how Bill Gates was running around like crazy demanding his staff to come up with the same GUI? Apple does not want ot repeat that mistake. I wish they were more open, I would be writing this on C2D instead just a Core Duo which was released shortly after I bought mine. MS are now in the Music businesss, will be in the phone business, trying hard to beat google in the search engine business. They do not have a creative bone in ther pathtic body, so they copy. That is why apple is so secritive. No defense just an explanation. Tell us again how "unimaginative" Microsoft is? the only thing that Gates "stole" from Jobs was the MOUSE. And even then Jobs Mouse design was pittiful. It didn't even work.On top of that they got it from IBM who didn't know what they had. They didn't actually steal it. Pissed off IBM but what can you do when your own inept tech department can't figure a simple parameter difficulty out?Also the windows design that Jobs had was not even complete what he showed Gates was a facimile of what he intended windows to be on the Macintosh.Here's a question for you Mac guys. Who is the most popular AMERICAN Automanufacturer?Answer CHEVY. Why? Cause they liscenced out their parts to the rest of the country so they didn't have to spend extra time working on upgrades and they could spend it wisely outdesigning the competition.Only in the last DECADE has Ford begin to catch up and that's cause they pulled their heads outta their backsides and did the same thing. about 40 years too late IMHO. You couldn't pay me to own a Ford.An much like that show me where you can find a place to get upgrades or build your OWN Apple computer. You can't. Cause Jobs has no VISION. If he did he would be the richest cat on the block not Gates and Paul Allen.And why they don't purchase the liscence for WMA capabillity is beyond me. They are freakin MICROSOFT windows compatible. Ummmm HELLO how much more would it have cost to ADD in the WMA liscence? See what I mean? NO vision. Never had it and NEVER will. Screw the iPod. I like the abillity of downloading content from my OWN library to my personal MP3 player and doing it for nothing more than what I invested in my CDs'.now that doesn't mean I'm biased in the least, I think that Jobs found a market he could saturate and stuck to it. Where Gates and Allen looked for opportunites everywhere. Nothing was off limits.If you can't see the forest through the trees in the article the nyou'll never get it either.:roll:Though I suspect the editor dumbed it down for Mac users.Well anyway have fun in prehistoric times. I'll continue to stay in the future with the latest gadgets and tech devices available for my scratch built system.

[bofh2]

[quote name='socokid']If that's all you've got (some of them are just plain silly), then I feel better about my Mac purchase. I mean come on... you don't like the iNames? That's a complaint? Seriously? And the gaming thing: Boot Camp. Deciding whether "hard core gamers" "go that route" or not doesn't even make any sense! A new Mac can run Windows games just as if it were on a Windows machine. Period. Are you OK in the head my man, or was it just that hard to come up with a real list that went all the way up to 10? hahaha, good stuff...1. You are happy about your purchase because all the commercials tell you to be. You think that the mac vs pc commercials are to convert people to mac? No, I have a friend who parrots them every time I see him.2. Boot camp? This is what you call a great acheivement? No it cannot run windows games as if it were a PC, I have 2 alienware laptops and a pc I built myself all of them run bf2 better then any mac I have been on. Plus to upgrade my laptops and PCs I do not have to get overpriced hardware from apple or apple approved hardware vendors.

[Ceadderman]

[quote name='bofh2']> > 1. You are happy about your purchase because all the commercials tell you to be. You think that the mac vs pc commercials are to convert people to mac? No, I have a friend who parrots them every time I see him.> > 2. Boot camp? This is what you call a great acheivement? No it cannot run windows games as if it were a PC, I have 2 alienware laptops and a pc I built myself all of them run bf2 better then any mac I have been on. Plus to upgrade my laptops and PCs I do not have to get overpriced hardware from apple or apple approved hardware vendors.I think the commercials are hillarious but anyone who thinks Macs are the best either has to use one at work where their boss is too cheap to spend on a real system or they are still in school... er check that I'm still in school getting a degree.Seriously folks you bring your G3 and I'll bring my notebook and we'll compare side by side. If you aren't splurgin on a new HP at the very least, I'll eat my notebook right down to the memory chips. Sans salsa.:mrgreen:

[gundark]

Smurf,No offense, and this is not a personal attack, but you say that Microsoft is "not nice" because they want to charge license fees for people to include WMA in their devices, yet in the next paragraph you defend Apple for not licensing iTunes because it would decrease market share of iPods???So we have the following situation:1. Microsoft charges license fees for WMA to make money.2. Apple doesn't license iTunes so they can sell iPods to make money.How exactly are either one of these evil? It's all business. Microsoft chooses to make the money with the license fees, and Apple chooses to make the money with the hardware.

[shongohan]

Macpro has 4 wonderful cores... Only mention to dual procesors is not complete... I think that people cant write an opinion without use a mac intel for one month. Then people can compare http://www.osx86project.org/ to try an OSX system in your normal pc (pentium4=> or amd64=> but better is a coreduo=>)I love macs. I use a lot my computer and install a lot of programs and with macs I have no more hangs nor virus nor malware and have full compatibility with windows and with my virtual machine (vmware or parallels) in speeds near to native and full multimedia

[oldtimer]

Not sure where to post this.There are Apple computers according to this post.I am an avid reader of computer advertiseing.I rarely if ever see them advertised.Most if not all of my Sotware since Windows 3 has been Dos or Windows.? to Apple users.Can you use as much software as IBM clone computers use ?All my boxes say it's for Windows.:unsure:Browsing for Hardware is the same.Windows compatible.What if anything will a Mac do that Windows doesn't ?Does it use Windows OS ?:unsureI will browse the Macs and iPods section.

[shongohan]

I dont know any user of OSX that need reinstall his OSX (sorry for my english)You dont need support nor call to technicians for troubles. I am not saying about is imposible but I say that never had to reinstall and have 300 applications and a lot of games (but is true that I need reboot with bootcamp to play to fifa or need for speed... About macs: great stability... A normal user dont need use windows because you can found versions of your favourite programs native in mac. On the other hand You still cant found a osx version of 3dstudio or autocad or the most known accounting program or some games but is lie that you cant play with a mac.. compare xbox and ps2. Yes you still can play with an xbox although you can find a lot more of titles and genres in a ps2 but still you can play a lot of ultimate 3d games on a mac. I think that the article is a bit deceitful and manipulate...

[cberry]

This is either a response to number 9, or a possible 11 for the "things we love..." column. Anyway, having strict hardware control is of incredible benefit to IT. We can create one (two if you count G4's) deploy image(s) with 90% of user setup done, copy it to hardware, and the thing boots. Even if you run Windows in Boot Camp, because the hardware uses a finite number of high quality components, all with well written drivers, Windows is screaming fast. Try that with other manufacturers who seem to put what's cheapest that day in their machines so even they have trouble keeping track of drivers. This doesn't even consider the other manageability features available for Macs - Apple Remote Desktop, Filewave., etc. Then there's the intuitive user interface (cuts down on training investment), wise software engineering, and, so far, freeedom from viruses. Add that troubleshooting a Mac problem on average takes 1/10 the time as troubleshooting a Windows client, and you have lean IT!

[shongohan]

Yes oldtimer, you can use all your applications on a mac, at full speeds, although for 3d windows applications you need to reboot the machine... outside of OSX and only using windows... virtualization in the other hand let you use both systems at perfectly multitask at the same time. But of course, you can try to use more time macs applications because your system cant hungs (is not imposible but is very very very dificult... and cant corrupt.If you dont want to lose your data or reinstall your OS every year you want to try with mac osx. You can found practically all your kind of applications in MacOSX (can be not exactly same application but compatible or that make the same thing). Yes you have mac office that is builded by microsoft... and internet explorer but is better firefox hehe ;)