Why I Hate Apple Products

Why I Hate Apple Products

First off, let me be clear that I love Apple and its products in some ways. We are living in the time where Apple is the King and I have to admit that I love lots of things about the Apple products. May it be the amazing new iPad with its beautiful retina display or the ‘iPhone 5’ with its amazing build quality and impressive hardware.

 The moment you pick up those marvels of engineering in your hand, you fall in love with them. Apple devices are intuitive, they are aesthetically beautiful and you can feel the incredible build quality and most of all they offer the best hardware specs that Apple can muster at the time.

But still, I hate Apple products in some ways... no, I will not be complaining about the new iOS6 maps. Its more of what Apple does to keep the user restricted to its own system, rather than allow them to do what they want. Let the Apple-bashing begin!

iOS makes you do things the way Apple thinks is right

Apples iOS forces you to do things the Apple’s way. That is the biggest reason which makes me hate the apple products like iPhone. There always will be lot of limitations about how you will be able to customize your iPhone. Apple does the same for the iPhone’s hardware. You can’t really enjoy the freedom on the iPhone, unless and until you jailbreak your iPhone. Even though Apples products are extremely intuitive, in my opinion people should be allowed to choose what they want. The biggest point of debate being the default launch applications e.g. a URL will always open in safari, and you cannot make any other browser as your default no matter how much you want to.

Sharing with devices is a pain

When it’s about connecting to the other device – system, tablet or mobile phone, apple flat out denies you any rights. Its like they want every device of yours to be an Apple device and nothing else e.g. Apple has Bluetooth which can be paired with only Apple devices. So if your friend has an Android phone and you have an iPhone, and you want a few pics they have taken or maybe some documents, you have to rely on third party applications or cloud based applications like Dropbox etc which is not really fair. No doubt the Bluetooth technology is outdated, and one in a thousand people might rarely have the use for it people still want the option. That's how customers think, they don't care if they ever use it or not but they want the option!

Micro SD card dilemma

I have never understood why iPhone and iPad doesn't have a memory slot. It is true that having internal memory makes your device faster but the price difference between 16 GB iPhone and 64 GB iPhone is ridiculous. Maybe its a way to keep the quality of the phone intact or maybe its just another way of making more profit but shelling out another 100$ for more memory is absolutely insane when a memory card can offer the same for around 30$ There has to be a better way for two devices to share data between them than repeatedly syncing them with the computer which brings me to my next point.

The Annoying iTunes

iTunes might be a good software no doubt, but having to sync everything I need to add through a software is extremely annoying and i really hate iTunes for that  Wanna play new games? Sync. Wanna listen to more songs? Sync. Wanna watch more videos? Sync! Its frustrating. Why cant we just drag and drop the stuff onto my iPhone/iPad? I'm sure if it wasn't for this piece of evil software people would be a lot more accepting to the Apple way.


Let me end my rant by saying that I understand why Apple does these things. They do it to maintain their quality control and security. But these are the same things that make me prefer an Android device over the Apple ones. And I know for a fact that I'm not alone in thinking the same.

Why I Hate Apple Products

First off, let me be clear that I love Apple and its products in some ways. We are living in the time where Apple is the King and I have to admit that I love lots of things about the Apple products. May it be the amazing new iPad with its beautiful retina display or the ‘iPhone 5’ with its amazing build quality and impressive hardware.

 The moment you pick up those marvels of engineering in your hand, you fall in love with them. Apple devices are intuitive, they are aesthetically beautiful and you can feel the incredible build quality and most of all they offer the best hardware specs that Apple can muster at the time.

But still, I hate Apple products in some ways... no, I will not be complaining about the new iOS6 maps. Its more of what Apple does to keep the user restricted to its own system, rather than allow them to do what they want. Let the Apple-bashing begin!

iOS makes you do things the way Apple thinks is right

Apples iOS forces you to do things the Apple’s way. That is the biggest reason which makes me hate the apple products like iPhone. There always will be lot of limitations about how you will be able to customize your iPhone. Apple does the same for the iPhone’s hardware. You can’t really enjoy the freedom on the iPhone, unless and until you jailbreak your iPhone. Even though Apples products are extremely intuitive, in my opinion people should be allowed to choose what they want. The biggest point of debate being the default launch applications e.g. a URL will always open in safari, and you cannot make any other browser as your default no matter how much you want to.

Sharing with devices is a pain

When it’s about connecting to the other device – system, tablet or mobile phone, apple flat out denies you any rights. Its like they want every device of yours to be an Apple device and nothing else e.g. Apple has Bluetooth which can be paired with only Apple devices. So if your friend has an Android phone and you have an iPhone, and you want a few pics they have taken or maybe some documents, you have to rely on third party applications or cloud based applications like Dropbox etc which is not really fair. No doubt the Bluetooth technology is outdated, and one in a thousand people might rarely have the use for it people still want the option. That's how customers think, they don't care if they ever use it or not but they want the option!

Micro SD card dilemma

I have never understood why iPhone and iPad doesn't have a memory slot. It is true that having internal memory makes your device faster but the price difference between 16 GB iPhone and 64 GB iPhone is ridiculous. Maybe its a way to keep the quality of the phone intact or maybe its just another way of making more profit but shelling out another 100$ for more memory is absolutely insane when a memory card can offer the same for around 30$ There has to be a better way for two devices to share data between them than repeatedly syncing them with the computer which brings me to my next point.

The Annoying iTunes

iTunes might be a good software no doubt, but having to sync everything I need to add through a software is extremely annoying and i really hate iTunes for that  Wanna play new games? Sync. Wanna listen to more songs? Sync. Wanna watch more videos? Sync! Its frustrating. Why cant we just drag and drop the stuff onto my iPhone/iPad? I'm sure if it wasn't for this piece of evil software people would be a lot more accepting to the Apple way.


Let me end my rant by saying that I understand why Apple does these things. They do it to maintain their quality control and security. But these are the same things that make me prefer an Android device over the Apple ones. And I know for a fact that I'm not alone in thinking the same.

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