A blindness that touches perfection
(And now for an Apple rant.)
As much as I like Mac computers, sometimes I hate Apple.
For instance, I’m interested in the iPhone, but don’t need most of the features. An iPod Touch would be more than adequate... if the calendar feature wasn’t gimped so that you can’t edit or add entries. (C’mon Apple. We can tell it’s the same damn app as the iPhone’s calendar.)
Bigger than that peeve, though, is that Apple is terrible when it comes to providing open systems and fair use to its users. Want an Apple product? Then you must deal with the closed OS, the closed iPod+iTunes relationship and the (for now) closed iPhone platform.
But this is a completely different level of insult and control. To buy an iPhone, you must pay with a credit or debit card. No cash, and no Apple gift cards.
Why? Because their customers want freedom of choice with their iPhone to such an extent that nearly 25% of the user base has hacked their phone in order to install apps or use it on another wireless network.
Apple could listen to its customer base and add app support and sell an open iPhone. But, like the two button mouse, it seems like we might end up waiting a few decades before we can buy an open iPhone. And even then it will be a cheap POS that left clicks when you want it to right click and vice-versa.
And a special, unrelated question for Logan. How long, now, until Jin dies?
As much as I like Mac computers, sometimes I hate Apple.
For instance, I’m interested in the iPhone, but don’t need most of the features. An iPod Touch would be more than adequate... if the calendar feature wasn’t gimped so that you can’t edit or add entries. (C’mon Apple. We can tell it’s the same damn app as the iPhone’s calendar.)
Bigger than that peeve, though, is that Apple is terrible when it comes to providing open systems and fair use to its users. Want an Apple product? Then you must deal with the closed OS, the closed iPod+iTunes relationship and the (for now) closed iPhone platform.
But this is a completely different level of insult and control. To buy an iPhone, you must pay with a credit or debit card. No cash, and no Apple gift cards.
Why? Because their customers want freedom of choice with their iPhone to such an extent that nearly 25% of the user base has hacked their phone in order to install apps or use it on another wireless network.
Apple could listen to its customer base and add app support and sell an open iPhone. But, like the two button mouse, it seems like we might end up waiting a few decades before we can buy an open iPhone. And even then it will be a cheap POS that left clicks when you want it to right click and vice-versa.
And a special, unrelated question for Logan. How long, now, until Jin dies?
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posted by M S Martinez at 10/30/2007 12:59:00 PM
4 Comments:
They're releasing the iPhone SDK in January, yo. And I thought the restriction on iPhone purchases was just through the holiday season. Were you planning on buying more than two iPhones in the next couple of months?
Give them time. It seems to me Apple has a way of coming around and making things right. I suspect many of the restrictions placed on the iPhone and iPod touch had to do with future features integrated into Leopard. I think we'll see some changes coming soon.
ever since the stock market update you can only view ben's posts as apple propaganda.
for the record, i love the iphone. wouldn't buy one yet, but i love 'em.
As to the more pressing question from this post:
It doesn't really matter when/if they kill off Jin. The Lost writers are in endgame mode, and have months to film episodes -- they can't wait for Jin to pay his time.
More important: why is Heroes so awful? Not only have they cancelled the spin-off, but the show continues to cram too many uninteresting plot lines in every episode. Hiro's plot line is possibly the worst -- especially because they fill forced to have Ando fit in as some unneccessary narrator.
Season 2 of Lost had its problems but it was never this precipitous of a decline.
yesterday's episode started to show signs of life.
i thought.
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