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Apple products irk me to no end. They define the non-generative end of the technology spectrum. If Apple does not like your application it simply will not work on your ‘iwhatever’ (flash being a case in point). Apple seems to have dropped the ball again in one of their strong suits: design. (But it does blend well, a point in Apple’s favour.)
“Apple has acknowledged reception problems with its new iPhone 4, but the company is blaming the issue on how users are holding the device.
The new iPhone, which went on sale in several countries on Thursday, features an antenna built into the frame of the device itself. Some users immediately complained of losing reception, which prompted Apple to address the issue late Thursday.”
Huh. Well damn, I guess you just have to stop holding the phone to get good reception. But really, do you buy an Apple product for anything more than just to be seen with it. Functionality seems a distant second, at best. So what if the darn thing cannot pick up a signal, its an Apple and to be seen ‘using’ one should be enough.
‘Apple’s chief executive Steve Jobs further addressed the issue in an email to a user, which was posted on the Engadget website on Friday. The user wrote to complain about the problem, to which Jobs responded: “Just avoid holding it that way.”
Set individuality to 11!
I’ll say it straight out. I am not a fan of Apple products. They are easy to use, fantastic, but are they useful? In my opinion, absolutely not. I break technology. I get mad, frustrated, annoyed even to the level of wanting to TISP!(*) my computers down a very dark and deep hole. The thing is once fixed, through hard work and fair amount of luck, I know how to fix something if it breaks like that again or at least diagnose what not to do the next time. Apple takes the me borking my hardware aspect out of computing, easier for me, but also more limiting. The CBC article mirrors some of my concerns.
“On one hand are the all-too-familiar complaints about pricing for the device’s 3G wireless capabilities. On the other are criticisms that Apple is trying to maintain too tight a control over what users can and can’t do with their gadgets, or that the company is trying to remake the web to its liking.”
Do not forget the requisite shaft for Canadian Broadband consumers:
“The company announced it would offer two plans, one allowing for 250 megabytes of monthly usage for $15 and another giving five gigabytes for $35. That angered potential customers, who pointed out on the company’s Redboard forum that AT&T in the United States was offering a superior plan — unlimited usage — for less money, or $30 (U.S.).
Rogers staff responded by saying that five gigabytes was more than enough usage based on its existing customers’ usage of smartphones and laptop data sticks.”
Lovely. But unsurprising.
“Apple is maintaining similar tight control over what sort of content can go onto the iPad, and even what can be attached to it. The device lacks a CD or DVD drive, as well as a standard USB plug, which means that connecting to Apple’s iTunes through the company’s specially designed plug is the only easy way to get media onto the device.”
Steve Jobs and his for all of his proprietary bullshite can rightly be called His Most Excellent Buttplug of High Douchatude from now on. I buy your hardware and then the only way I can put things on it is through a media pipe of your choosing. Frack the hell off Apple.
“The general public doesn’t think of the iPad as a device where someone other than the owner has the keys to it,” he said. “They haven’t thought, ‘Why is this allowed?’ They just think, ‘Oh, it’s a cool device.'”
And the general public is stupid. Most of the i-crap is more about looking hip and cool. Forget about net neutrality, open source and open access software, as long as my waste of skin peer group can identify me by my glaringly white ear buds I’m “good”. The Apple phenomena is the hybridization of stupid people with stupid devices, profitable but ultimately not good for us.
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