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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.
on March 25, 2008 at 07:55 AM - LINKI 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.
on March 25, 2008 at 08:46 AM - LINKThanks Krye and Cydney for your comments.
Cydney, I had the same problem, I think it was the update at the time.
on March 25, 2008 at 08:48 AM - LINKI 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!
on March 25, 2008 at 10:08 AM - LINKI 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.
on March 25, 2008 at 11:07 AM - LINK