&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Tech Rant on Hi from Dwipal</title><link>https://dwipal.com/blog/tags/tech-rant/</link><description>Recent content in Tech Rant on Hi from Dwipal</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:52:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://dwipal.com/blog/tags/tech-rant/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Why I Hate Apple</title><link>https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/2006-01-10-why-i-hate-apple/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/2006-01-10-why-i-hate-apple/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Apple has always played games with me. Here is a list:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I bought the iB
ook G3 (my first apple). 35 days after that, all iBooks were upgraded to G4.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The iBook came with Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). It soon got obsolete and Tiger came in. So i bought Mac OS X 10.3 (Tiger). Within a couple of months it was upgraded to Panther.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Same thing happened with iLife. 2 upgrades in &amp;lt;2 years.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Then I bought the all new upgraded powerbook G4, with a ultra bright LCD and stuff. And now apple announced the new Intel Based Apple MacBooks.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Because things got upgraded as soon as i bought them, I got the new iPod Photo as soon as it came out. And then they slashed the prices in 1.5 months of that.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, technically, it might be my fault, that I am stuck in the wrong upgrade cycle. However, I strongly feel that a Mac should feel like its the latest for atleast 9-12 months.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Apple has always played games with me. Here is a list:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I bought the iB
ook G3 (my first apple). 35 days after that, all iBooks were upgraded to G4.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The iBook came with Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). It soon got obsolete and Tiger came in. So i bought Mac OS X 10.3 (Tiger). Within a couple of months it was upgraded to Panther.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Same thing happened with iLife. 2 upgrades in &amp;lt;2 years.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Then I bought the all new upgraded powerbook G4, with a ultra bright LCD and stuff. And now apple announced the new Intel Based Apple MacBooks.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Because things got upgraded as soon as i bought them, I got the new iPod Photo as soon as it came out. And then they slashed the prices in 1.5 months of that.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, technically, it might be my fault, that I am stuck in the wrong upgrade cycle. However, I strongly feel that a Mac should feel like its the latest for atleast 9-12 months.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h3 id="comments"&gt;Comments&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; (January 10, 2006):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Agree. But then &amp;hellip;. this always happens in high tech stuff. The trick is, if you want something you buy as soon as that product/upgrade is released. But, I agree, atleast with the ipod its been crazy release cycles. Likely driven by the equally crazy market.I&amp;rsquo;ll be waiting for the 1st revision of the macbooks. :p-Shreeramhttp://shreerams.blogspot.com&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; (August 14, 2006):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I hate apple for host of different reasons that are all summed up like this &amp;ldquo;The worst hardware and customer support I have ever experienced!&amp;ldquo;In the last three two Mac&amp;rsquo;s died and I just bought(was forced to buy) a Macbook for my daughter and I could not get it out of the apple store before it broke. It is sitting at the store right now and the apple &amp;ldquo;genius&amp;rdquo;(an oxymoron) is trying to diagnose and fix the problem. This has gone on for two days. Oh and did I say that the apple store told me the Macbook was ready with all my data transfered from an Ibook and whn I checked it nothing had been transfered. Great cusotmer service.To close out this rant&amp;hellip;3 IPod&amp;rsquo;s in three years all broke&amp;hellip;my cheap MP3 player from MPIO has not skipped a beat in the same time.That is why I hate apple!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; (September 13, 2007):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While it does happen in high tech stuff, I must agree. However, most things you can get for a PC will last you a year or two, if not three. I have been posting some stuff about some things that people don&amp;rsquo;t realize about Apple on my blog: &lt;a href="http://kelpie.xenoci.de/blog/"&gt;http://kelpie.xenoci.de/blog/&lt;/a&gt; Check it out. It&amp;rsquo;s the first post, however, the other three posts may fancy you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h3 id="comments-1"&gt;Comments&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; (January 10, 2006):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Agree. But then &amp;hellip;. this always happens in high tech stuff. The trick is, if you want something you buy as soon as that product/upgrade is released. But, I agree, atleast with the ipod its been crazy release cycles. Likely driven by the equally crazy market.I&amp;rsquo;ll be waiting for the 1st revision of the macbooks. :p-Shreeramhttp://shreerams.blogspot.com&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; (August 14, 2006):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I hate apple for host of different reasons that are all summed up like this &amp;ldquo;The worst hardware and customer support I have ever experienced!&amp;ldquo;In the last three two Mac&amp;rsquo;s died and I just bought(was forced to buy) a Macbook for my daughter and I could not get it out of the apple store before it broke. It is sitting at the store right now and the apple &amp;ldquo;genius&amp;rdquo;(an oxymoron) is trying to diagnose and fix the problem. This has gone on for two days. Oh and did I say that the apple store told me the Macbook was ready with all my data transfered from an Ibook and whn I checked it nothing had been transfered. Great cusotmer service.To close out this rant&amp;hellip;3 IPod&amp;rsquo;s in three years all broke&amp;hellip;my cheap MP3 player from MPIO has not skipped a beat in the same time.That is why I hate apple!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; (September 13, 2007):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While it does happen in high tech stuff, I must agree. However, most things you can get for a PC will last you a year or two, if not three. I have been posting some stuff about some things that people don&amp;rsquo;t realize about Apple on my blog: &lt;a href="http://kelpie.xenoci.de/blog/"&gt;http://kelpie.xenoci.de/blog/&lt;/a&gt; Check it out. It&amp;rsquo;s the first post, however, the other three posts may fancy you.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded></item></channel></rss>