“If you want an army of geeks you can count on to tame an unruly computer, you’d better buy a Macintosh: Apple tech support is by far the most effective of any computer brand’s,” Consumer Reports explains. “With most Windows PCs, there’s only a 50-50 chance that a manufacturer’s tech support will do the trick.”
“That’s what more than 3,200 computer owners told us when Consumer Reports National Research Center surveyed them earlier this year. Mac users gave Apple’s phone and online support glowing reviews,” Consumer Reports writes. “It’s no surprise that Apple had the highest score for overall user satisfaction. In fact, the company has been top-rated every year since we first asked consumers about tech support back in 2007—even though Apple provides just 90 days of free phone and online tech support, compared with one year for most Windows PC companies.”
“The help desks at Windows PC companies often didn’t live up to that name. For four of the six PC brands in the survey, tech support solved only half of the problems consumers brought to them,” Consumer Reports writes. “Even the best of them—Lenovo and Dell—came through just 61 percent of the time”.
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DELL is running new ads on Bloomberg via my Apple TV, touting their tech prowess in healthcare! What a fckin’ JOKE. False advertising is the first thing that came to mind. WTF? Got anything to ad, eh MIKEY?
Every time I have called Apple tech support, I have spoken to an American with an American accent. That makes a HUGE difference. All other companies use call centers based in India, and while they speak English well enough, communication is not as smooth with an Indian call center as it is when it’s American-to-American.
Apple keeps making the top spot of various lists and the share price is stuck in neutral. Don’t these things mean anything to investors, at all? It’s a given Apple should strive to be the best, but it should also be worth some premium value. High customer loyalty isn’t something easy to achieve.
Most investors couldn’t care less about customer loyalty unless the company is losing it along with profit.
Number one reason to always buy AppleCare Plus💥😜⌚️
In general they tend to have excellent customer support. I had so many problems with my first generation Retina MacBook Pro that after 2 1/2 years they sent me a brand-new one, the BTO 2.8 GHZ, 16 GB, 512GB version. I was even able to purchase another three years of AppleCare.
On the other hand, they’ve recently hired a lot more tech support people (since Yosemite came out) and many of them are not exactly Mac savvy. When I get one of them I just ask to be sent to a second-tier advisor. I’m normally quite polite but the knucklehead who claimed that Apple doesn’t support HTML5 got a little history lesson about Jobs, the iPhone, Flash and HTML5.
After 8 months Mail still isn’t working, but I blame that on the programmers and engineers and not the tech support department.
I do have some extensive experience with Dell tech support due to a friend with a very heavy french accent having me call on her behalf and it usually takes 3 to 5 transfers to get a person who happily gives me the wrong answer.
She also uses Boost Mobile with some Android phone. We had the SD card from the previous phone but couldn’t get the phone to write to it (no problems reading from it). I called Boost mobile tech support and the tech told me to change a setting. When I told her that was the first thing I tried she actually started to cry! She said she just had a couple sheets of generic Android answers and started sobbing! I wasn’t mean, didn’t yell and was completely taken aback. I told her that it wasn’t that important and I’d call back some other time. If I was stuck using Android I’d be pretty sad about it, but this was supposedly tech support!
So in comparison, Apple tech support is stellar!
In the not so distant past I’ve received extremely poor technical support form Apple on OS X Server. The techs seemed to have access to no more information on the product than I.
Recently however I had an all together different experience!
I had the weirdest issue in which all services set up on an OS X server (Yosemite) were running just fine, except of course, the calendar service. (Calendar is the bane of my OS X Server existence.)
We went round and round, it looked like a network issue, then it looked like it was the router, then it looked like it was OS X server. The Server guy at Apple got on with me and took over the remote server, through my workstation, and confirmed that the server was working properly and that no matter what it looked like, the actual calendar data over ports 8008 and 8443 were not getting to the server.
I finally just tossed up my hands, turned off the really expensive router at the customer’s site, put in an Airport and everything worked just fine.
Had the Apple guy not gone through the wholly innocuous OS X server logs and translated for me, I might still be wondering what the hell was going on.
I was never once asked for money which is also different.