Anonymous

Indianapolis, IN

Athlete

Embarrasing glitches? Like what, exactly? Leopard it a HUGE upgrade. It probably wasn't as smooth as Tiger or Panther, but compared to any version of windows ever made, it was a cakewalk to do the upgrade, as always. Users are not afraid of upgrading Macs, with Windows, 90% of the users
dont' bother trying to upgrade, they just wait until they need new hardware, which, after so many virus and spyware and unexplainable problems, many people give up and buy new hardware because it's so difficult to repair. There are so many gotchas, such as windows update requiring I.E. but I.E.
is often corrupted, so that it's difficult to update. Or the fact that you have to use the net to update it but you are usually infected within minutes of connecting to the 'net since the security is practically nonexistent.

Scares for investors? Maybe for short term gamblers. People who have invested in the past year and a half have tripled their money--you think they are scared, you are nuts, they are ecstatic. If you had invested in 1999, you would have 38 TIMES the money you put in, that is NOT SCARED.

iTunes is a closed platform? Hardly, when you compare it to Microsoft's various and sundry (and abandoned) efforts, it's remarkably OPEN. A song purchased on iTunes can EASILY be ripped to MP3 and played anywhere, or you can BURN a CD. How is that closed? Also, it's the ONLY ONE that
supports the Macintosh--the original reason, most likely, that they DID the iPod and the iTunes store. Why does the media always talk about it being 'closed' just because it doesn't directly support competing players? You don't have to use the store at all and anything you rip into iTunes
can easily be ripped in AIFF (like a STANDARD CD) or an MP3, which is TOTALLY OPEN.

Detractors have tried to find SOMETHING wrong with iPhone. They usually harp about the lack of '3G' but the iPhone's '2.5G' has recently been shown to outperform ALL 3G phones in a side by side test, and 3G is a battery hog. Some people just hate apple (they are threatned I suppose if they
are windows experts) but their complaints are weak.

Apple TV is awesome, but a lot of people still don't have HD TVs and Apple isn't renting videos--yet.