It's quite simple really:
- Overpriced for what you get - I guarantee you can build a machine equivalent to a Mac's spec for at least £300 less.
- The fact that they copyright everything. As Foxi said, they seem to think they can claim ownership to a black rectangle.
- Oversimplified OS. Fine for people who haven't a clue what they're doing, hell you could give a Mac to a 3 year-old, have him click randomly and you wouldn't have broken a thing. Only problem is for people who do know what they're doing is that you are extremely limited with what you can do with the technology. You can only do what Apple wants you to do.
- The way they state their Macs are 'virus free'. No, they've not. And they never will be. The only reason you don't get viruses is because people who want to infect your PC are going to go for the bigger audience (and thus more profit), i.e Windows.
- Stupid things like the 'genius bar'. I bet 90% of the people at them desks can't do a thing that requires more than pressing 'rest to default'.
- The way they act as if everything they invent is going to be the next big thing and push it onto every single user to ensure that it is.
- The way they manipulate 'normal' non-techy people into buying their products.
- Then having people who think they know things about tech going on about how the iPhone is superior to everything and how his Mac (that he payed £ridiculous for) is faster than my PC.
Preeetty much this.
Though really the only of those reasons I don't bother with iCrap is the price. You get a middle of the road product that has a gigantic price markup because it has a fucking apple on it. Awesome. Sign me up for that.
....yeah i'll go buy a product with the same capabilities for half the price.
The fans are just as annoying though. Diehards that just wont freakin' admit they paid twice as much as they needed to, just to get a status symbol. Nope, it's the best...that's why they got it.
Ugh.