I recently in the past 3 months bought 2 Macbook Pros and 1 iPhone 3g and I have to tell you.. I’m really disappointed in how Apple is handling public relations. I don’t know if it’s coming from Jobs directly, but keeping quiet about problems, not fessing up to them and passive resistance seem to be the Apple Mantras these days.
If we take a look at all the different situations:
Apple iPhone 3G reception problems – Keep quiet and ignore the public, deny anything is wrong, but quietly fix it in the background for a future firmware update.
Apple iPhone Video Streaming Apps – Passive resistance in approval of App Store apps that stream video.
MobileMe – Do I even need to discuss this one?
Now, I like the Apple Hardware, but come on people! This is fucking ridiculous. My other big gripe.. I can’t seem to receive bluetooth pictures from another phone? I mean that’s pda functionality 101! I don’t wanna hear apple fanboys talk about piracy, etc.. and how they’re preventing it, because the truth of the matter is apple allows mp3s to be stored on the iphone so that’s just a load of crap.
If anyone in apple land is listening, you’re really starting to piss off the customers that put you in the number one position!
and while we’re on the subject, one more gripe.. Why the fuck are you not allowing VOIP clients in the App store? I know you’re in bed with ATT, but don’t release a product and tout all the power and functionality it has if you’re not going to allow people to use it. We should have the ability to do what we want with our devices.. god knows we pay enough money for it.
If I pay $75.00 per month for the “privilege” of owning an iphone and it’s service, I’d like to do what I fucking please with the data plan. Not what you tell me I can do. Jesus fucking christ.
If i wanna run a VOIP app, let me run a VOIP app. If I wanna watch TV and streaming Video, let me do that. I may or may not wanna buy apple store videos, i may not wanna buy apple tv, and i may not wanna watch youtube. In other words.. let me have the freedom to do what I want with my device as long as it’s legal. This is just fucking bullshit.