MobileMe sucks compared to similar services.
The current iPhoto has been the worst rendition ever, I think Google Picasa is somewhat superior now in the fact that it does exactly the same but without the slowness and the silly bugs.
Dare I even mention the iPhone antenna. True, it was blown out of proportion, but I don't get as much signal as I did with my old £30 Skypephone on my iPhone. The issue exists.
2011 alarm bugs, daylight saving calendar bugs, iTunes bloatedness, the list continues.
Apple do sell bad products. But also some damn good ones as well. Just like every other company.
Uh . . . where's the rest of your list? Because you've barely shown anything there. You can leave off iPhoto. Nothing currently compares to the iLife Suite. MS is still smarting over it. I'm sure mentioning the iPhone was a mistake . . . because it would be insane to include. The issues never existed, and it was another runaway hit. As for the rest of your list, it looks like you couldn't think of anything else (don't worry, I doubt anyone else could have, either), so you just rolled over and mentioned a couple of bugs.
Some perspective would help when we make lists like this.
Microsoft has outspent Apple roughly 8-1 in R&D over the last decade. Yes, 8 to 1.
And in that time - roughly 10 years - Apple has produced Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, lots of groundbreaking Mac models (multiple iMac versions, the iBooks, MacBooks, MacBook Pros, MacBook Air, Power Macs, etc.), iPod, popularized Podcasting, iTunes, iTunes Store, iPhone, iOS, Apple TV, the App Store, Mac App Store, and, of course their current game-changer: the iPad (and now an even bigger hit, the iPad 2.)
Microsoft, on the other hand,
for 8x the money, has come up with: another back-asswards Mac OS X clone - a Windows rehash that they're trying to shoehorn onto tablets with varying degrees of failure, some bloated Office retreads, the Zune, Kin, Bing, and Windows Phone 2007. If it wasn’t for the Sony-inspired Xbox (Red Ring of Death included) and a Nintendo-inspired Xbox controller, Microsoft would have nothing but a string of failures to show for roughly 80 billion dollars. The ratio of R&D to revenue for both companies couldn’t be more telling. Of course, they put a lot of R&D into their Enterprise software. Which doesn't function any better today than it has years ago. We're still on XPee at work. So, of course it's all useless to us. It's hard to get excited about Exchange and Outlook, and hard to actually enjoy using them. Which no one really does.
That's right. $80 billion for a PlayStation clone, an accessory to make it work like a Wii, an also-ran search engine, and what's left of Nokia.
Here's the take-away from all this: Any other company would love, LOVE to boast your list of Apple's "failures." They'd be on iCloud nine.
I'll give you MobileMe. It's good, actually. It does the job of syncing everything on my iPhone with all my other Apple gear. But it could be so much more. And apparently, it will be.
