I love my iPhone--It's my library(kindle app), laptop (word processing app that works with Word), music manager (1 k songs plus Sirius app), email device, GPS, and once in a while, it's even a phone! . Once you say no to the radical takeover of all your media files, iTunes never bothers you about it again.
I'm with you, Splash.
Before anyone starts in with the whole “Steve Jobs is a raving douchebag†business, let me say this:
I’m an objectivist and a capitalist, and even though Apple is a publicly-held company, I maintain that Jobs has the right to do with his business as he sees fit, just as I’d demand that right for myself. If I wanted to fire a worker who didn’t cut it, hire my brother and promote him to a position of great responsibility (even though he’s a complete moron), or give all my money to a Saint Bernard rescue organization, I’d expect to be able to do so, right?
Ok, so let’s leave Steve and his politics out of this for the time being.
As an example of why I adore my Apple products, an early review of the iPad said this:
Jobs is a relentless perfectionist whose company creates such beautifully designed products that they have changed our expectations about how everything around us should work. He has an uncanny ability to cook up gadgets that we didn’t know we needed, but then suddenly can’t live without.
Damn straight. Up until 2008, I was a PC guy. Loved it. Well, sorta. Hated the constant security updates, the infamous “blue screen of death,†the annoying-as-all-hell “program has stopped responding,†only to click “end now†and NOT have it end. Regardless, I thought Macs were for people who thought themselves better than everyone else.
That is, until I bought my first iPod.
Two years later, my woman and I find ourselves in possession of 2 iPods (one classic, one touch), 2 MacBook Pros, 2 iPhones, 2 iPads, an Apple TV, and an almost imbecilic love of that little chord that plays whenever we power up our laptops.
So again, I’m here to confess that despite the fact that Jobs acts like a liberal sycophant, my girl and I are loyal Mac fanboys, and would probably be standing outside the Apple Store if Jobs could figure a way to make the iPad able to make and receive phone calls.
The liberals thought they OWNED the blogosphere. Clearly, we’ve proven them wrong. They no doubt currently think they own Apple. Well, my Goldwater Girl and I may have something to say about that, as well.
Excellence and elegance should be non-partisan.
