Apple completely dominates and owns its users, locking them down to a ecosystem thats very hard to escape. They control ever aspect of their “universe” and you have no say. Their actions and practices are worse then the old microsoft.
Just look at the current state of events with the app store, they’ve been kicking out applications without any explanation or reason. Most recently they booted Google’s Voice app and haven’t made any reason as to why.
People can say all they want about how “awesome” apple is, but the truth is that its a very closed environment and if you don’t like the way Apple wants you to do/use something you’re shit out of luck. They’ve only recently been forced to remove DRM from iTunes, and don’t think any better of them because they were forced by market pressures.
They throw away product lines like no other company, if you buy something now you better buy the newer version in a year too. Steve Jobs was quoted at some point saying about the iPod that in his expectation everyone should be upgrading and getting newer models every 6 months. This follows suit with how they produce product lines, look at the new Macbook Pro line, they all have internal batteries, what happens when they start dying? You need to send in your laptop and get it replaced for a hefty fee, instead of just being able to buy a new battery on your own.
Apple will tell you what and how you should use and if you don’t like it they wont give a shit. I think that Apple has some of the worst policies when it comes to treatment of their customers of the major tech companies around right now. Then again, you gotta give em credit cause everyone seems to love the damn company without knowing any better.