There is no question that Apple products cost more. I put that in the same category as other things in life that cost more, like better food/clothes/cars/sports equipment/etc.

Do you always get what you pay for in life? Of course not. It's up to consumers to vote with their wallets on the relative value of various products. Apple has done pretty well in the hyper-competitive marketplace of consumer electronic devices.

Yeah, but can you do this with a PC?
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The first example i can think of is when a missed call or text pops up on an Iphone, you just slide the message, and youre calling back or in the text screen immediately, no opening the phone, going to the text or phone app, then finding the person you wish to contact. That's user integration, meaning i don't need to do as much s#*t to get to where I want to go on the phone or tablet. The second is the Galaxy has crashed, or froze 3 times in 60 days, the Iphone never did, whether it was the 4, 4S, or 5S. I would call this better, to say the least. I am more familiar with Apple's product yes, and didn't have any issues whatsoever in the 4+ years of ownership. This has been my experience, laugh all you want. ;)

I'm not sure how you were using your android phone but that is exactly how mine works, I can call the person back, send a personal text or send a pre-filled out text without having to unlock my phone:confused:

Try adding a 3rd person for a conference call on any I-phone. If that 3rd person doesn't answer, you cannot get back to the other party. No way. You have to disconnect everyone and call your person back. Very professional (not) when on with a client.

My Blackberry from 5 years ago had no problem with conference calls.

Easy as pie.......I don't know what you are doing but this is simple to do on an iPhone and always has been.

You sound like a person that has heard there are issues with this but has never tried it. I have been using this feature since my first iPhone and is quite intuitive....

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I've been an Apple user since my first Mac IIci. I like the computers and I liked my iPods because they were easy and intuitive to use and worked as they were supposed to. You can start getting work done without knowing much about how the computer is structured (ie you click on an icon that says, "Install" and it installs your software - no C: prompts, etc. and no chance of doing it wrong). The level of technical expertise needed match my abilities and desire to know more about the computer.
I suppose I would like my iPhone and iPad too, but they have taken the "Here let Apple do that for you" philosophy too far. Apple's iOS products make it is as easy for me to screw something up as it was fwith PCs back when I still used them.
I wanted to sync my calendar and contacts on all my devices - iPhone, iPad, 2 MacBook Pros, and a desktop - just my calendar and contacts, not every frikkin' think I ever stored on a computer. What a disaster. I ended up with iTunes trying to put all the photos from my laptop on my phone, and a full season of Homeland from my iPad to my phone and laptop - who the heck wants that and why should it be the default? Try deleting photos from an iPhone that have been exported to it. It's not impossible, but jeeze, you would think they would include something as simple as a "delete" button on the photo library. iTunes is beneath Apple's traditional level of easy, intuitive functionality. After over a decade of enjoying Apple's easy operability, I'm extremely disappointed in the OS for it's iPhone and iPad.

Although windows has started to dip its toe into the cross-platform world, I don't know of anyone who is pleased with it on all types of platforms...

Add to that, you still have to deal with the fact that hardware and OS are made usually by different corporations. Call on your Dell laptop - they will tell you to call Microsoft. Call Apple about your MacBook Pro - it gets solved.

My phone, laptop, desktop, tablet are all Apples - I like the ease of everything just working together, seamlessly...

I think they do need better vision now that Jobs is gone - however, someone like that comes once in a generation, hopefully someone else will step up... but they would probably start their own company, if they are a visionary, rather than 'improve' on someone else's vision.

I don't see Android or Windows or even Linux doing any better in the future either - I think it would take another seachange similar to the iPhone to really dig into Apple's share.

However, in the spirit of full disclosure - this was my first Apple :) - I have never owned any other type of computer or phone or tablet [however, I have had to deal with others (microsoft and android and blackberry) at work at one time or another]. WD we have something in common -

Oh, go cloud and photostream - it solves all your problems with regards to syncing - really easy -plus - you can delete your photos on your phone - it just happens in the camera roll under albums... read here...

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WIth the advent of website based applications the OS itself is becoming less and less of an issue.

Fortunately my needs are simple, I don't give a **** if the windows machine can run missile silo hacking programs written by a boy in Kazakhstan (windows user argument VS Mac) I just want it to be spam-free.

If Apple follows suit and starts becoming parasitic, it's gone.

PS anyone visit those MSFT stores yet? I love how MSFT thinks the world adores them- it ain't so, that's why all their cross-platform stuff crashes and dies. Microsoft phone? LOL. Microsoft tablet- can't give 'em away. LOL to the x power. :cool:

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It would have been nice if Apple hadn't created a problem that needed solving. That's my point.
I solved my problem. I use google calendar and contacts and deleted that ridiculous iPhoto from my computers. There no photos on my phone that I didn't take with my phone and I'm no longer getting prompts to buy more space for cloud backups.
I take thousands of photos and manage them with Lightroom. I don't need or want iPhoto getting in the way.

I would have said they just put it in a more obvious place for new users wd15 - and you really didn't need help anyway - so....

I should also disclose I bought a little hunk of Apple stock in mid 1997 - I might have an alternate motive for talking up Apple... ;)