I found the name of the business concept that I mentioned earlier that intentionally makes crap, and it is called: "Planned obsolescence":
Planned obsolescence or built-in obsolescence[1] in industrial design is a policy of deliberately planning or designing a product with a limited useful life, so it will become obsolete or nonfunctional after a certain period.[1] Planned obsolescence has potential benefits for a producer because to obtain continuing use of the product the consumer is under pressure to purchase again, whether from the same manufacturer (a replacement part or a newer model), or from a competitor which might also rely on planned obsolescence.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescenceNot long ago, I purchased an HP printer for $100 at Costco. It was a massive piece of crap from day 1, and even worse now, and I have barely even used it.
"Planned obsolescence" is not just a thing regarding Bill Gates' PC World, but Steve Jobs is a fan, using it as part of his business model, too. Much of the criticism towards Jobs is related to him selling crappy iPods that do not last very long....yet Jobs' hand held gadgets is the bread and butter for the Apple company.
Personally, I have never owned any such gadgets like iPods/mp3 players, black berries and such. I have never even had a basic cell phone/plan/contract that I bought with my own money. So...I can't say too much about such Apple based hand held gadgets, and as to whether they are crap or not, but I believe the reports that say that Apple's hand held gadgets are crap. I'm sure everybody's hand held gadgets on the market are crap, and a giant rip off.
I was not impressed when Jobs went from Mac OS 9.1 Classic to Mac OS X, which forced designers to get hold of new copies of graphics programs like photoshop and what not, cuz the 9.1 versions would not work in Mac OS X environment, unless you ran it through a crap emulator, which is never a good idea.
And when Jobs was into that thing where he would lock up mp3s sold on iTunes, so that they could only work on apple products ....convinced me to never purchase an iPod.
I also find iTunes to be crap, and I never use Safari cuz it crashes so much that it reminds me of Gates' IE. Firefox seems to work fine, though.
But when you put all of Steve Jobs' negatives together, it does not even come close to the supreme evil that is Bill Gates. Bill Gates is so evil that it makes some people spend crazy amounts of money on Apple machines instead of spending much less on a crap Bill Gates' PC.