Disgruntled Enough with Apple to Move Back to the PC?

[Rob Williams]

From our front-page news:

As our site focuses more on PC's using Windows or Linux, we haven't put much emphasis on Apple in the past. That will no doubt change at some point in the future though, but for now, we're content with simply talking about what's going on down there in Cupertino, whether it be a new product launch, or something else on the business side of things (good or bad).

I've made it no secret in the past that I'm not a big fan of Apple, and that really hasn't changed. I won't go through my personal reasons again here, but I will say that things have even rubbed me even worse lately, especially with regards to the entire App Store debacle of good applications being denied for no apparent reason. I'm not alone, and it seems like some actual pro-Apple fans are starting to become annoyed as well.

Jason Calacanis, the CEO of the human-powered search-engine, Mahalo, moved over to the Apple side six years ago, after being a devoted Microsoft fan for over 20 years. Since then, he's given over $20,000 to Apple, across his various computers and accessories. His loving relationship with Apple has apparently ended, due to how the company is handling things lately, and he's even looking back to Microsoft

This is a long blog post, but it's worth it if you want to see it from a rather unique perspective. Jason lists five specific reasons that pushed him over the edge, which include destroying MP3 player innovation through anti-competitive practices, monopolistic practices in telecommunications, and of course, the App Store policies.

Years and years after Microsoft’s antitrust headlines, Apple is now the anti-competitive monster that Jobs rallied us against in the infamous 1984 commercial. Steve Jobs is the oppressive man on the jumbotron and the Olympian carrying the hammer is the open-source movement. Steve Jobs is on the cusp of devolving from the visionary radical we all love to a sad, old hypocrite and control freak–a sellout of epic proportions.

Source: Jason Calacanis Weblog​

 

[MacMan]

Jason anti Apple blog post is TOTALLY WRONG!

This is a long blog post, but it's worth it if you want to see it from a rather unique perspective. Jason lists five specific reasons that pushed him over the edge, which include destroying MP3 player innovation through anti-competitive practices, monopolistic practices in telecommunications, and of course, the App Store policies.

Years and years after Microsoft’s antitrust headlines, Apple is now the anti-competitive monster that Jobs rallied us against in the infamous 1984 commercial. Steve Jobs is the oppressive man on the jumbotron and the Olympian carrying the hammer is the open-source movement. Steve Jobs is on the cusp of devolving from the visionary radical we all love to a sad, old hypocrite and control freak–a sellout of epic proportions.

Source: Jason Calacanis Weblog[/INDENT][/QUOTE]

Jason and his blog post might be long, it might be passionate, but it's totally bunk! That's correct, you read right. I won't go into details, I will let someone who is a much better writer than Jason is explain why, in an equally long post, that Mac haters probably won't bother to read:

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/08/14/jason-calcacanis-the-case-for-seizing-apples-technology/

A lot of people have been seeing through Jason's faulty logic, and many have written about it, too many to mention here, but what the hell, here's a few other links:

http://www.applematters.com/article/calacanis-is-wrong-part-1-of-5/

http://www.zerologic.com/Blog/The-Case-Against-Apple-My-Rebuttal.html

http://couchapple.tv/2009/08/08/the-flaw-in-the-calacanis-case-against-apple.aspx

http://atlanticwire.theatlantic.com/read-more.php?id=664

Trust me, I could go on and on!

Remember, when it comes to the Apple store, it's barely a year old - it's downloads are now approaching close to some 2 billion strong, so much that everyone else, all the biggies in the business, are bending over backwards to copy it - so much for Apple killing innovation!

Also, remember that not only does, in that brief time, did Apple amassed some over 65,000 apps, but is hard pressed to review the 180 to 400 new apps it receives each and every day! Of course Apple is bound to screw up with such a workload! Wouldn't you? For one thing, they never anticipated the amazing success that is the APP STORE!, therefore then didn't plan for it the way the should have. Also, the thing to remember, and what Jason and others don't tell you, is, of course, that the vast majority of all apps submitted are ACCEPTED by Apple!

Sure Apple has made some big mistakes with the App Store. I even gave Apple my dumb-ass award 4 the week for the whole mess:

http://my2cents4theday.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-dumb-ass-award-4-week-goes-to.html

Apple has made mistakes, but come - give it time to sort the mess out. Jason and other complainers are like the person who threw out the baby with the bath water, which is utterly ridiculous and silly.

I love how people bash Apple for it's so called high prices, yet, when you look at other high-end PC, such as HP's Voodoo, or any of the higher end Sony's, or Dell', well, guess what? Not only do they all cost about the same, in most cases, they have lesser specs and even higher prices!

Here's a good article to prove my point, and an article that points out how so called 'cheap' computers, are in fact, much more expensive:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=6320&tag=nl.e539

Funny how people love to complain about Apple, shout the news about every little thing they preceive is evil about it, but when Apple tries to explain how it is listening and plans to address the situation, they totally ignore to print that.

http://daringfireball.net/2009/08/phil_schiller_app_store

In the end, I agree with Daniel Dilger, who is questionably one of the best writers in all of the tech world, in that what Jason is calling for is nothing short of tech-communism!

Apple is not perfect, but the fact that they are worth more (money in the bank) than Microsoft, or anyone else, proves that they are doing something right - in fact a lot right!