Only partly. What I was saying is that people who think they know what they're doing actually find it harder to adjust to Apple's ways than complete ignoramuses.
If you like I'm 'condemning' a particular niche of moron, not the manufacturer. I have some issues with the hardware, but in terms of soft/firmware I have comparatively few issues with the Fisher-Priceness of the Apple approach for what I do with their stuff, especially given the app ecosystem.
Apple is widely recognized by users and critics as a company that prides itself on ease of use. Many of the modern interface paradigms were invented at Apple. Now, it would be silly to say that everything Apple has thought up worked. But it is ridiculous to not recognize Apple's numerous contributions to easing computer use or recognize that Apple has designed many products that were easy to use and feature rich. Sometimes we have to design things differently from the given status quo.
Heck, a lot of people gave Microsoft a lot of flack for the ribbon interface and said it was hard to use. What MS did with Office and the ribbon interface is similar to how Apple works for the most part. Just because it's new and different doesn't mean it isn't better in the long run.
Since this forum deals mostly with gadgets and phones and this post was about the iPhone we'll try to restrict this conversation to iPhones. The iPhone, when released, was at the very top of the smart phone hierarchy. It is as feature rich as any other touch based smart phone. There isn't a whole lot you can do on other phones that you can't do on the iPhone. And even if we moved beyond phones and music players, we'll find that most of Apple's products are very feature rich and powerful. Not always the most economically priced but very powerful and feature rich nevertheless.
The wording of your posts can't help but give others the impression you are biased against Apple. While it is a mistake to believe that Apple sits at the cutting edge for all or even most of their products, their products are usually competitive in their respective markets.
Apple's products are designed to be as easy as possible to use. That doesn't mean they're Fisher Price products which I would translate as meaning a product or device used to teach/learn with for small children.
The design of the iPhone and the limits on what it can/can't do does make sense. But just because you limit certain features doesn't make a product a kids toy. I actually applaud Apple for some of the limits it puts on products like the iPhone, though I wish they allowed power users to escalate what they can do with it provided they know they will get reduced support in exchange for the extra features such as being able to run unsigned apps.
Look at the news about apps gathering/stealing data and identity information. Look at the recent news about a botnet like malware making the rounds on Android. Sometimes limiting features does make sense. And again, just because you limit certain features doesn't mean the product isn't a powerful and feature rich one.
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