Best & Worst Apple Products Ever
It's well known that our favorite products around here are Apple's. But Apple has made some seriously terrible products.
Share your thoughts on the best & worst Apple products here.
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Worst Product
Having recently had a hard disk fail on me, I have to nominate iSync as the worst Apple product ever. It seems to choose randomly what it wants to sync when. It has never worked fully with any of my mobile phones, produces duplicates of some information and claims spurious conflicts which it refuses to resolve even when I take the trouble to resolve them. I'm giving up my .Mac account at the end of the month - and iSync is largely responsible!
Worst Product?
Chuck St. John
Birmingham AL • www.stjohn.net
I've only owned mac computers, and and iPod. As a commercial photographer with computers in two cities and three locations, I find iSync a livesaver. I've never had any trouble with it syncing what I wanted across all computers or even on my new Razr phone. I have no idea why some folks are railing on about it. I use it frequently and love it.
As for failing hard drives, that is not an iSync issue although I can see why some would be upset if they archived to Apple servers with iSync and could not retrieve their data. Back ups need to be in more than one place in case of a HD crash & burn.
iSync
I have lots of trouble with iSync. On almost every sync I have conflicts between SOHO Notes & addressbook or calendar. Several times it's screwed up either my addressbook or calendar by replacing items with older versions. I can't even sync keychains because it asks me every time for the password of a machine I no longer used and unregistered from .Mac long ago.
I also think the iSync architecture introduced in Tiger was a huge step backwards. I need to go to *three* different places to sync different devices: iTunes to sync contacts & calendars with my iPod, the iSync application to sync with my cell phone, and .Mac sync for .Mac. Before Tiger, a single iSync application did all three.
Since I use Firefox, I really like Google Browser sync for syncing my bookmarks & other browser stuff between my computers.
There was nothing much wrong with cube except the price
I think the Cube gets an unfair press - apart from the price there was really nothing much wrong with it, and quite a lot good with it. Completely silent (apart from disk access noise) with upgradable graphics and processor options, it had rather more future development potential than the mini does now. We had one from 2001 until it was retired earlier this year, and during that time it worked flawlessly. But it was expensive - and was caught between the iMac and the G4 Powermac in a rather odd way. If you want a really poor product, I would suggest any of the colour screen 68000 series CPU laptops. Much too heavy, much to slow, and expensive