I hate Apple and their little iPad too
I get a very funny feeling Steve Jobs goes home at night, closes the curtains tightly, and Opus Dei's himself with a whip while cursing Bill Gates....As I understand it, he was not even 3 minutes into his presentation when he started to type on the touchscreen keyboard, and he had a ton of typos, because the keyboard sucked, in which he quickly conjectered "you can get a attachable keyboard as well!"
Regardless, Jobs is a micromanaging control freak who continues to put out blah products that are never original, and forces folks to bend to his licensing and software quirks. He refuses to allow his developers or others to blend with his projects and insist on total control. I would go on about iTunes, but we all know why we hate that.
And the Apple Faithful are reminiscent of the granola crunching tree hugging PETA supporting yippies that I have learned to loathe over the years. Regardless, here is a collection of insightful and funny videos over the years of people putting out the truth.... Oh, and I really hate the Apple commercials too, they are smug.
And for the record, I am a PC, along with the other 90% of the world, and 95% of the software is too.
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We have both a Mac and a PC in the house. I like them both for different reasons, I have to say.
I genuinely dislike iPods though. I think they are the Coldplay of mp3 players. mwuahahha!
Rants. You're good for that.
Well Anna, I am torn on your last comment, because If sent to an Island to live by myself for the rest of my life, and I could only take one of the following:
1. The entire Radiohead collection
2. The entire Phish and Gratefull Dead Collection
3. The entire works of every RAP artist collection
4. The entire Nirvanna Collection
5. The entire Guns and Roses collection
6. The entire Disco Hits Collection
7. The entire Jimmy Hendrix Collection
8. The entire Led Zepplin Collection
9. The entire Rolling Stones Collection
10. The Entire Coldplay Collection
It would take Coldplay, without hesitation. It just makes my ears happier than anything listed above. Shrug.
I do enjoy my Soap Box, nothing is more refreshing than forcing my perceived truth into the ears of what I perceive to be the naive. Lord knows they force enough on me.
Although I do tend to go for the "Nuke" approach. Which can be a bit of a release, but seldom creates change, just friction.
The only solice is that I honestly believe i only rant when I feel provoked by something thus feeling the need to counter it.
And after a year and a half of buildup, the world stopped this week to listen to Steve Jobs introduce a product that once again has nothing new, nothing revolutionary, and is just a bastardization of products long already on the market. The difference is the licensing and forced cost structures that ultimately we will have to deal with for reading books via a digital device. Its a piss poor PC, a Smart Phone blown up in size (minus the ability to be a phone or camera), and a digital book reader, of which several have existed for quite a while already.
Its only real purpose, like the iPod, is to be a gateway to licensing monopolies. That is Jobs real agenda.
I can't believe that someone who is self-described as someone who frequently goes "for the "Nuke" approach" - would actually prefer the atrociously mediocre Cold(crap)play over those great bands otherwise listed there.
It baffles the mind.
I never said I didnt have flaws.... and don't get me wrong, the first 9 on the list are FAR MORE IMPORTANT bands and genres than a Pop band called Coldplay. They have influenced and or changed music and spoke on issues etc......
But as far as the ear buds go... alas, it would be Coldplay.
But I do have a list of about 100 that I would pick before Coldplay. Jsut not those 9.
The entire Phish and Gratefull Dead Collection
The entire Nirvanna Collection
The entire Guns and Roses collection
The entire Jimmy Hendrix Collection
The entire Led Zepplin Collection
The entire Rolling Stones Collection
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Those are what I would bring.
No, you only get to pick 1. I am guessing, considering your love for live music and a gazer at heart.....
Phish and Zepplin would be in the top 3.
Sorry you feel that way...
In my pocket, as I sit infront of my PC work computer, I have 3 Apple products...and at home we are a Mac family.
I just plain love 'em.
You peg me well, Ghost.
But, I'd take The Dead over Phish
I see Zep, Guns, The Stones and Hendrix all on an equal playing field.
yeah, Annie. i'd just take my Mac laptop to the island and all the tracks listed would be on it.
rather than slug it out with you guys, this is gonna be a "hit and run" post.
as a visual artist the graphics on the Mac wins hands down over the PC anytime. Even though i have to go to a friends house to use it. My son is learning on a mac... all the public schools here only have mac for kids to learn on. i know that soon i will change from PC myself and my son.
AAAAaaaahhh!!
Yes, AutoCAD and other Engineering software, Photo and Movie editing software and Graphic design software, Apple Excells at those types of "Proffesional" applications.
But for the everday user of a PC, to play games, do Word and Excell and Access type programs, browse the web etc, PC has it.
And as far as organizing music and photos, email and other things, both platforms handle the minimal task load associated very well with basic built in programming.
But as a amateur web designer, and a Gamer, not to mention user of office style programs at work, PC Wins hands down.
I have a PC. I have two iPods. I'm happy with all of them. So there. And FTR, no plans to buy an iPhone or iPad either. But ya never know...
My son told me that Adobe and Apple have not come to terms with each other on the use of Flash. So, any flash based apps or sites don't work on Apple.
Did you see the big blank areas on the N.Y. Times page Jobs was showing us at the key note that just showed the symbol for missing plugin? He quickly decided to go back to a page that didn't have any flash.
But then he went to another article and ran into more missing flash content. Embarrassing during a high profile sales pitch. They should have had that all rehearsed to set Jobs up for success.
Karma.... Karma Hates Steve Jobs.
A legal notice: Apple owns Karma. Writing about Karma without the express permission of the Cupertino commandos will earn you a midnight visit from the original men in black: lawyers! Likewise, dissing the iPad will get you a visit from the corporate ninjas of Fujitsu, who have marketed Something Completely Different from Cupertino's iPhone Gargantua since 2003. Furher, you should also know that "PC" is now owned by Lenovo, the free use of which is prohibited by The People's Iron & Computer Works Factory #54. Yes, the worst kind of lawyer is headed your way: A Communist Party cadre, who will torture you with the Thoughts of Chairman Mao until you stop using the phrase "PC." (The "Chinese water torture" is a breeze compared to marathon Little Red Book readings!) Dissing The Apple Faithful LLC is also prohibited on pain of having all of your assets seized, since you are actively slandering their omnipotent corporation. (Which can now sue you as if it were a real, live human-analog-lawyer.) Also, be advised that "Soap Box" is now a copyrighted trademark of Proctor & Gamble, which will wash you down the drain, legally. Uh-oh, now you've gone and done it...the PETA people are after your sorry carcass! (They eschew eating animals...humans, however, are fine with them, served with Chianti and Fava beans!) This message has been brought to you by Apple Inc., imagining/building/conquering worlds since day one!
"Regardless, Jobs is a micromanaging control freak who continues to put out blah products that are never original,"
I thought it bore repeating after such a long thread.