“but it has a history of extreme reliability because Apple only uses the ‘best of the best’ parts”

Apple has it’s parts made in china, no different from all other hardware vendors. this claim is 100% bullshit. elitemactechs*com/apple-recalls.html also look that the support forum. just saying “we eat the food and push the shit out our ass” doesn’t make it less shit then the other vendors.

Whereas if you want to hack a cyanogenmod phone you need to be more clever than tens of thousands of programmers who’ve already tried to poke holes in it’s security.

Incidentally, this theorem is also why windows orders of magnitude more documented weaknesses than an open-sourced system such as linux or BSD.

I don’t like Apple myself but their tech does as advertised. So if you want to toss twice as much cash on an apple rather than on an equivalent alternative, I simply say “feel free”. The main criteria is this: Do you want to be treated like a complete and utter incompetent by the people selling you your computer or mobile phone? If yes, go with Apple.

Generally speaking most of apples products can and will last ten years easily. Problem is they cost twice as much and are still obsolete in specs after one year.

Hence yes. they’re reliable. Their tech works.

It’s just horribly overpriced, locked-in, and provided with the default assumption that the customer is an idiot luser. To some degree I sympathize. Most people would do better never to assume admin rights on their rig.

And I personally think that if a consumer WANTS apple to treat him/her like a mindless moron in all respects, then apple is quite right in doing so.