From what I've noticed there are many apple issues experienced by a smallish set of users, which in aggregate affect many people, but not all with the same issues.
For me the list is: (1) early deterioration of plastic in macbook, (2) wifi connectivity issues on leopard, (3) wifi connectivity issues on snow leopard, (4) unexplained time machine failures, (5) major performance issues on lion. And that's just for my macs. My ipad suffered from unexplained app crashes every ten minutes, which were due to memory shortage problems that i could only solve by disabling mail sync (i use purely gmail in the browser now).
On the other side, with windows and android, i've had roughly the same amount of problems. In my experience, apple's stuff breaks as often, but has a different "feel".
For me the list is: (1) early deterioration of plastic in macbook, (2) wifi connectivity issues on leopard, (3) wifi connectivity issues on snow leopard, (4) unexplained time machine failures, (5) major performance issues on lion. And that's just for my macs. My ipad suffered from unexplained app crashes every ten minutes, which were due to memory shortage problems that i could only solve by disabling mail sync (i use purely gmail in the browser now).
On the other side, with windows and android, i've had roughly the same amount of problems. In my experience, apple's stuff breaks as often, but has a different "feel".