I don't care for them because they have often built horrible flaws into their products and blame it on the consumer. Be it overly short ribbon cables that break, thin casing that bends the logic board, work stations that over heat as they slowly jam over time with bad venting, weak radios in phones that don't work if you have it in your hand, etc. Or just dick moves like taking out the headphone jack to sell you a meh pair of earphones.
I get why people do like them. Macs were the thing pre-Intel take over and got a reputation as a creative tool, their advantage there ended around 1995 though.
They used high end SSDs when Vista was skullfucking your average Windows laptop that resulted in laptops that stayed decently usable for years if you bought Apple.
They used high grade panels with good font scaling (ffs Windows still piss poorly supports some things over 1080) when your average windows laptop was still using bizzarro crap laptop screens.
The iphone 4 and kind of the 5 was very smooth running in a time when Android was clunky. Iphones both before and after these have too many issues to count though, except the XS which is too new to tell what will fall of it yet.
But over time they stopped putting in the extra effort on those SSDs, their parts are badly installed, their engineering flawed, their usability has gone down, Siri even got surpassed by most anything else, any modern iphone has had critical problems.
I will grant you the Ipad is still the best tablet for an on the go artist, but is nothing compared to a desktop drawing monitor. But on the go I can think of nothing on the ipad's level. The Ipad 2 put me off them though from not having a default way to drag and drop to a NAS, Windows 98 shouldn't have features over it.
That aside in the past you got some premium support and now they don't give a shit and have been caught lies too many times to count.
So my distaste isn't to wank off over Linux, its because I find them poor value.
