Bijan Sabet

Why I love Apple

There are a lot of Apple critics out there these days. Including my good friend Fred & Robert Scoble (who I haven’t met but I enjoy his blog)

Their complaints are perfectly reasonable and I totally get it. And I have a feature wish list a country mile long about my Mac/iPhone.

But I gotta confession to make. Ready?

I love Apple.

1. They deliever amazing products. We have four Macs in our house. 5 iPods and 1 iPhone. We wouldn’t be this loyal if these weren’t the best products in their class.

2. Apple hardware is simply gorgeous. I have the Apple 30” monitor on my desk. My colleagues, especially Dennis and Todd lust after this monitor every time they walk into my office. I run presentations on it, sit on my coach and with the Apple remote I can surf in bliss.

3. I have never, never have had a virus on any of my Macs. Period. And I download tons of crap off the internet. I’m testing everything under the sun and then some. And not once have I had a blue screen of death or a fatal software error.

4. I upgraded to Leopard without doing a clean install. It just worked.

5. Video conferencing on iChat just works. I haven’t met a single Windows user where video conferencing worked every time.

6. I’m addicted to iPhoto and iMovie. There is nothing like it. I stream photos in iPhoto to our MacMini connected to our HDTV. It’s stunning. I edit home movies of the kids every month. It’s a snap and it’s *fun*. I modify, crop, tweak, tag all my photos and send them to Flickr to share with my loved ones and all of you. Peace of cake.

7. I download as much music as I can from Amazon w/o DRM. It goes automatically into iTunes and then syncs perfectly to my ipod and iphone.

8. Airport Extreme just works in my house. I have 2 of them to extend the reach. I can open up any Macbook in the house and 2 seconds later I’m on the LAN and WAN. I can mount any drive anywhere. I can access any screen via ScreenSharing.

9. I can bring up Terminal if I really want to geek out and get stuff done. this is a unix machine after all

10. I like the glowing apple logo. And it likes me :)

11. I have a lot of friends at Apple. I know how hard they work to make all this stuff work. They care deeply about product excellence. And I send them a note after each MacWorld and WWDC.

12. I love the stock….Long Apple.