Let’s take a look at some of these products, updates and campaigns, like someone picking at a fresh scab and exposing the wound to further damage because they just can’t let something heal with the natural passage of time. In fact, some of its recent decisions have at best been woefully misguided and under-tested, and at worst directly antagonistic. Terrific Stilt-Boy for instance.Īpple itself has been doing an impressively heroic job lately in making it harder for its devotees to remain loyal. I saw a bus advert for Mr Robot on my way to work this morning, and instead of celebrating the fact that it will find a much-deserving wider audience, I just realised that the next time someone asks me what I’m watching at the moment, instead of replying Mr Robot as I would have done a couple of weeks ago, I’ll have to find something else obscure to reference. You’ll find this is a common trait of tech-fans, which spills into their other passions. It also doesn’t help that I’m exactly the kind of pop culture snob that hates it when their niche things become popular. They remind me of my own worst qualities. That’s probably a dark thread that’s best not to tug at and that’s maybe why I wouldn’t admit to actually being an Apple devotee, despite all evidence to the contrary. ![]() ![]() Perhaps it’s because I’m an only-child and I relate to the arrogant way Apple products swagger around like they own place, believing their own hype and not playing well with others. After all, I don’t want people to think that I actually like Apple products.Īs for my choice of mobile phone? Well put it this way, when you’ve spent a couple of years using a BlackBerry and wondering why on Earth anyone would invent such a wilfully user-unfriendly machine, and then you pick up an iPhone for just a couple of minutes, you will never go back.īut then if you happened to ask me what phone I currently use, I will invariably reply, “Oh I don’t know, whatever came free with my contract, a MacPhone is it?” Despite the fact that it’s the third full-price iPhone I’ve bought in 12 months because each one has obliterated itself after falling all of two feet to the ground and I can’t possibly bear to live without it or use an alternative. But then what was the first thing I did when I got my own way? I covered it in hip-hop band stickers.
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