Hyperbole police: Apple is the most reviled brand?

I would fully expect one of the most beloved brands to also be among the most reviled. Human nature and wot.

Most of the revilers have never even seen an Apple product, not mention that they had used one.

Apple products have also their dark side, but the bright side outshines the dark side.

For the sake of balance... to counter some of the nay sayers

In my home network I have:-

An iMac, Macbook, Time Capsule, Airport Extreme x 2, Airport Express, iPod Video 5G 60GB, iPod Nano, iPod Touch, iPhone 3G and shortly to add an iPad....

... and I love my Apple network... very, very few problems and I joy to use.

Preston Gralla is joining the ranks of Dvorak and Enderle as clueless hit-whores. He
has plenty of knowledge when it comes to the Windows world but now that Apple's much anticipated demise hasn't eventuated, but in fact flourished like wildfire, he finds himself quickly losing relevance in a world increasingly adorned with Apple products. Check out his other recent articles. His only real recourse is to manufacture Apple's demise by coming up with inane articles of impending market share losses and revile. The only one losing share and earning revile is Gralla himself.

Apple the most reviled brand?

Have these idiots not heard of BP before?


I will admit that I'm a bit disappointed in the direction that Apple is taking. It is clear to me that they are taking the first steps in abandoning the desktop as a computing platform with notebooks being close behind (I give the desktop 5 years).

I'm also disappointed in the how Apple runs it's app store. I believe that it will eventually lead to stifle innovation and drive developers to Android.

But reviled? ummmmm that is just moronic... Google is far closer to being reviled than Apple is.

Want real Apple loathing nastiness?

Check out Gizmodo, Engadget, The Register, PC Mag and The Inquirer... to name a few.

It's really a bunch of sullen, pimply, virginic, mom's basement dwelling dweebs who are bummed that their Vista loaded Dells (Symantec a-churnin') and Zunes are pure garbage.

They're despondent because even though Macs lack the latest version of some generic wizard and dragon game (with the obligatory image of a buxom lass on the box), Apple is prevailing.

That Apple has a PLAN and is executing it, enrages them.

Meanwhile their overlord and master Microsoft has become a toothless Fafner, lying in it's cave, protecting it's hoard of gold, with a spark of nothing, save protecting it's profit-stream, in it's eye.

There's an entire generation of these clowns who devoted themselves to the imminent demise of Apple... only to see their tiny little worlds collapse... turned inside out... flipped upside down.

Exactly WHY, no one sane will ever know.
It's a friggin' hoot!

Searching twitter is not a replacement for a verified opinion poll (which themselves are rather dubious statistics)

I hate to sound like a jerk, but most of the Apple hyperbole I hear comes from TUAW. You guys generally spin Apple-related talk as positively as you possibly can. It comes across sounding like fanboys.

"We've all had some goofy things happen to our Mac"? If this were Windows, it would be written "we all live with the horrible bugs in Windows"

"We've all been somewhat irked when a pleasant experience is "ruined" by this issue"? My wife's iPhone 3G is unusably slow, to the point where she asked to cancel her data plan. She is not "somewhat irked". She is pissed off at Apple's apparent inability to produce an OS that works on a device that just a couple years ago was the Greatest Thing Ever.

I have a lot of Apple products, and I like most of them a lot, but I won't run around telling people the Emperor is wearing a nice three-piece suit, nor will I blow raspberries at people who don't like Apple products. The fact that you guys do both makes you sound intellectually dishonest.

Please TUAW, just report about Apple stuff. You claim Apple is trying to expand its market appeal beyond its own fanboys. You would do well to do the same, because there are a LOT of us non-fanboys who like their news without noise, without bootlicking.

AT&T deserves the revulsion