{"id":707239,"date":"2010-04-01T14:29:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T18:29:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:58:44","slug":"worst-company-in-america-apple-vs-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/707239","title":{"rendered":"Worst Company In America: Apple VS Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/header_final-thumb-652x136-38534.png?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for these two foes to step into the Red Ring of Death. Will Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/fed-up-xbox-gamer-has-gone-through-6-broken-consoles.html\" >trail of dead Xboxes<\/a> and too-late knockoffs of <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2008\/12\/zunes-everywhere-froze-at-2am-this-morning.html\" >iPods<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/microsofts-windows-phone-7-causing-developers-to-ditch-projects.html\" >iPhones<\/a> be enough to get them past Apple, the company that charges you $499 for <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/the-ipad-is-a-giant-expensive-iphone.html\" >an oversized iPod Touch<\/a> and then only lets you use software they approve and sell to you?<\/p>\n<p>Which company has you longing for the days of Scantron cards and Walkmen?<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/2989742.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/2989742\/\">Which Company Is Worse?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\">answers<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a post in our Worst Company In America 2010 series. The companies competing for this honor were chosen by you, the readers. Keep track of all the goings on at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerist.com\/tag\/worst-company-in-america.\">consumerist.com\/tag\/worst-company-in-america.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/behold-the-2010-worst-company-in-america-bracket.html\">Print the bracket, here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for these two foes to step into the Red Ring of Death. Will Microsoft&#8217;s trail of dead Xboxes and too-late knockoffs of iPods and iPhones be enough to get them past Apple, the company that charges you $499 for an oversized iPod Touch and then only lets you use software they approve and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XZ5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808375,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707239\/revisions\/808375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}