iScrewYou: Why I don’t buy Apple Products

I do not buy Apple products. Here is why:

1. iPod: when they first came out, they were too expensive and I already had a MiniDisk player that worked just fine (early 2000’s). In 2005 I got a Shuffle as a present, and it ended up breaking (it wouldn’t charge anymore). Took it to the store, and one of them Geniuses said I had to buy a new one. Reluctant to spend money on a gift, I left it alone. I didn’t use it that much anyway. During my years of pondering whether to get an iPod, I still found it offensively expensive and I had heard that the Apple music format was not compatible with anything else BUT Apple… so I always had the question of whether I would be able to populate my thousands and thousands of pirated songs (from the good old Napster days) into an iPod anyway. I never cared enough to find out the answer. It was just too much trouble. For my birthday, my husband got me an mp3 player that has FM radio (Sandisk Sansa). At this point, even if I wanted an iPod, I would not buy one for the simple fact that it doesn’t have FM radio. What can I say? I like my NPR.
2. Mac: I grew up on PC. I know the OS inside and out. I understand the command prompt and the file structure. I find Macs difficult to use because I don’t know them. I hate the fact that the backspace button says “Delete.” I hate that I would have to re-learn everything I know about shortcuts on a new system. I thought of getting a Mac so I can do my video editing on a more media-friendly machine, but then I just realized it would be too expensive a purchase just to use one application more effectively. I got a Dell Studio 19 inch laptop in PINK instead. I’m very happy with my choice.
3. iPhone: my husband is a Verizon freak. If it ever came to a choice between me and Verizon, there is no doubt in my mind that Verizon would win. I would not switch services to AT&T, no matter how cool the iPhone is. Now, let’s put the service provider aside. I NEVER get the first generation of any new technology, so I sat tight and waited for the iPhone reviews to pour in. A couple of years later, Verizon started coming up with their “response to the iPhone” and I just thought I’d wait for that instead. As for functionality, I do a fair amount of blogging on my smartphone, and it is very important to me that the keyboard is responsive. I have tested the iPhone’s keyboard, and I get more gibbirish than anything. It just doesn’t agree with me, so I would not find it very useful for my most important smartphone task. Byebye iPhone, you’re just not cool enough to make me switch.
4. iPad: only time will tell. Too early to review. However, I did go to the Mac store and tried out their keyboard (for blogging, of course), and it gave me gibbirish. The Z and the Y are inverted!!! what??? I DON’T THINK SO.

As for what happened to my broken unfixable Shuffle, well… it got what it deserved.

Sorry it’s not a very scientific review… it’s more of a laymen review.

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