Sour Apple
So the iPhone 3.0 update is coming. I'm not gonna link you to any of the articles since you could do a Google search or go to Apple's site on your own.
There's definitely some nice features in there, but I gotta say, I could give a shit about how many layers of glossy coating they put on their stuff, the luster on Apple products is really fading these days. I dunno if it's Jobs' fake deaths or whatever, or the new crew running the show, but I just don't feel like the same ardent defender of the forbidden fruit these days as I was maybe 10 years prior.
What really bugs me is the all the proprietary bullshit. Well, the micropayments suck too...
I mean get off your fucking high horse Apple. $9.95 for features you shoulda included in the first go 'round? Suck my hairy balls first.... At least gimme a reach around or something if you're gonna do me up the ass. The thing that really is insulting is that it seems like such a fucking Microsoft way of dealing with your customers. The more Apple does to rape their limited customer base, the more Ballmer looks like a nice guy. Which is weird, since it was the other way around 10 years ago.
Now I know that $10 isn't that much. But the $10 isn't the point. The fact is, they're releasing features that should have been included by default. Copy & Paste? Fuck... With as many ego-driven UI designers they got working there, you'd think at least one of those douchebags would have figured out how to copy and paste some text (especially seeing as how competing products already have it...).
Well, I don't wanna waste any more precious brain cells on this. I'll close by saying this: If you have any level of decency left in you Apple, you'll fucking not pull this shit from here on out. Otherwise, I guess I should start buying Dells.... At least with a Dell, I don't have to get raped in the kulo just to get some throw-away tech.
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I think the only thing Apple really has going for it now is iTunes, in terms of a viable source of revenue. Their computers are just way too over-built and over-designed for the average consumer, even the iMac. Especially now that you can buy a netbook for the price of a top of the line cell phone nowadays and most of your applications are online. To top if all off, the only person capable of leading the type of innovation to make Apple turn the corner could very well be dead for all anyone knows.
The fact of the matter is, ever since the iPod, the focus of the company is shifting towards gimmicky tech. The core of the business for Apple, used to be the Macintosh. But clearly, they've decided that continuing down that track is a losing game. They haven't beat out Windows in like 20 years of the Macintosh. So they went in a different direction...
Now it's all about disposable gadgets and it's sad to see a company like Apple turn sour (no pun intended). Sure, they'll make micro-upgrades to their line of computers, but I don't think they're really all that focused on advancing personal computing anymore.
And with ubiquitous computing really coming to the forefront these days, fucking nickel and diming their customers is a really bad business strategy, when Crackberry's provide the same, or similar, or maybe even greater functionality, for cheaper/better/faster or watever...
Unless you wanna look like a pretentious asswipe... In which case, Apple should also invest in companies that make black turtlenecks...