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Why is my apple products slower that my microsoft products
Surface and droid have over 100 mb wifi. Apple phone and ipad around 20 mb. Why the difference? Our house uses both operating systems regulary.
Apple products just suck in general, I can't understand what everyone loves about Apple. I am the family and Friends IT person and when anyone calls me about problems 9 out of 10 times it includes an Apple product not working correctly, O and iTunes just hate it, The worst piece of software I can think of. Apple has a better way, Ya right. Garbage
The stores are crowded with customers waiting for the Genius bar rather than waiting to buy an Apple product. The genious of Steve Jobs was to make the store always look crowded.
OK, I have to call BS on the way that this thread is going. Netgear released a product with great potential, but with basically beta firmware. No guest network, no USB, all kinds of devices (not just Apple) losing connection? And what I just mentioned is not all-encompassing! Come on, let's get serious here. You can turn this into an Apple bashing thread if you want to, but that's not productive in solving all the issues that Orbi is having right now.
however the title does read ,
"Why is my apple products slower that my microsoft products"
and so we are exploring that aspect and explaining why in general apple dont play nice helps the op also understand the issue it has with the orbi
i do however concur plenty needs to be and has to be done , it isnt beta firmware if it was released with the product , its called initial release firmware and is what netgear team decided to release the orbi with , how well its fixed and how much its improved is now in the hands of the dev team and not the beta test team
Trust me, when a product is released, and it doesn't do everything or have all the features that are marketed, it is derisively referred to as beta software, no matter what they label it. Granted, Netgear isn't the only company that does this, but it is what it is. eero was the same way - some of the things didn't immediately work as advertised, but they quickly released firmware updates, and they've released at least 15 updates since the initial launch. Both Apple and Microsoft have been accused of releasing "beta" products or software, and they're not the only ones. Over the years, I've used routers from just about everyone - Linksys, Asus, Netgear, eero, D-Link, and Archer just to name a few - and this is the worse initial firmware release that I've ever seen. I'm typing this on a 6-month old HP Spectre X360, and its speeds are slower than my 2-year-old MacBook Pro, so I guess YMMV with the Orbi.
