I have no envy for people who feel they have to have the very latest Apple products..... we left those "must have" days far behind when we moved to Cyprus from the UK in 2004. The need hasn't returned since we came back to UK over 18 months ago
I had a Samsung android phone for a few years in Cyprus and never really liked it, whereas now I have a Windows operated mobile phone which does everything I need and is extremely simple to use. Nobody really creates Apps for Windows anymore but that isn't a problem for me. I don't want my whole life on my mobile, neither do I want it on a tablet (which I do not have).
Our desktops and my laptops have all worked perfectly well and done so prior to and for the years I was in Cyprus, whilst travelling and since returning to UK. Our desktop and laptop are each on for at least 12hrs a day, we've never had a virus or a crash through spam/adware or any other misadventure. We run a small business from home and our income is pretty much dependent on it.
Yep, they're all Windows operated! The phones cost us less than €170 for both of them when we purchased them in Cyprus.
My laptop was less than £350 and hubby's desktop cost less than £400 because he also needed a new display screen.
I'd rather have my money in the bank than in Apple's pocket
Says she who still has more than 6yrs to go before the UK pension kicks in but refuses to go out of the house to work until the time arrives....
This makes for interesting reading, it's at the bottom of the 2nd link I gave:
"Apple's quality of business execution is slipping," says Neil Mawston, at Strategy Analytics. He believes the company is becoming "more prone" to business and product glitches.
As a result, Mr Mawston thinks Apple's reputation for offering premium quality and reliability could be at risk.
Bug bounty
Cyber-security expert Prof Alan Woodward, at the University of Surrey, agrees.
"There's definitely a growing perception that perhaps their quality control is not all it should be," he says.
"I use Apple products... because of the level of encryption and the attention they pay to apps in their app store. You didn't used to get these sorts of bugs."
He also points out that while Apple was once a niche brand favoured largely by computing connoisseurs in a handful of industries, today it is a true giant.
That makes its devices increasingly attractive targets for hackers, who tend to look for vulnerabilities in the most popular systems because that way they have more opportunities to scam people or steal vulnerable data.
