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Originally Posted by gwilks98
heh...don't buck LP, he's likely to give me a 3 page rebuttal and a verbal lashing.
I've had a handful of cases over the last few months with apples or apple software that is designed for absolute morons. In locking down capabilities, they remove an admin's ability to configure. Safari doesn't want to use our java agent for NAC. Itunes is a PITA with pulling movies off my iphone, and syncing the subfolders I want. MACs hate using certificates in a windows environment for 2 form factor VPN. There is only 1 way to add more than one album to an ad-hoc playlist on the iphone, and it's a PITA IMO. We've used several different versions of Windows emulation on MACs (VMWare, Parallels), and the overlying MAC software has significant trouble with sharing the same MAC (hardware) address, which is required for our Network Access Control: 1 mac address per non-trunked port. Nevermind how I'm forced to use iTunes to sync things to the iPhone. That sounds more like Bill Gates than Steve Jobs.
There are some decent things about Apple products, but their crap is far from what the commercials advertise.
Their advertising is as deceptive and unfortunately as trusted as Bose.
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Seems like the majority of your list is iTunes/iPhone related problems, which isn't OS related. Or Safari, which also isn't OS related. I agree, Safari sucks, and iTunes is getting kind of bloated.
But I have 2 Macs and 3 PC's here at home, and there is nothing I can't mod out on the PC that I can't also mod out on the Apple, OS wise. The trick is to know the tricks. Different, yes, but not really 'locked down' compared to Windows. I love windows 7, but I wouldn't say it's better then Snow Leopard. I'd say it's comparable.
Is the hardware expensive? Well, yes and no; you could build a PC to the same specs and be cheaper, but I don't know that you could get an LED monitor to those specs and be cheaper. But it's not really targeted to you or me. Where mac is gaining market share is with people who aren't us.