Apple Rant

Note: This is a crazy long rant. I didn't even edit it. It got kinda heated. So don't be mad when you find mistakes.

        It is so awesome that things people used to need books to find, like my co-worker’s zip-code finder book, can now be easily accessed by the web. Not even the web for that. A simple text to a service like 4INFO will take care of that. And with new internet cards or whatever people can access the net from any place they wish. Soon internet will literally be everywhere. Eventually it will probably be free. (Am I dumb and naive for thinking that?) But seriously. We are only a couple years from everyone having internet set up in their car. I will be driving, streaming internet radio, or listening to podcasts right through my radio. Haha Adobe Indesign spell-checker still thinks podcasts is a misspelled word. I remember like two years ago when I didn’t even know what a podcast was. Even when it was explained to me I was like, so what? Sounds boring. (Some still are.) It is crazy how far we have come. 

        Speaking of technological advances, Apple. I have no problem with the company. Their business plan and marketing is ingenious. I don’t agree with the Apple fans, who no nothing about computers, except Apple, and  think everyone who doesn’t use one is an idiot. These are the same people who said “Intel inside, idiot outside” and then Apple began using Intel and they thought it was great. It is like a cult. Everything Apple says or does is genius. Everything else ( and the people who use it) is inferior. Stupid. Now I don’t know tons about computers, but I do know, from using both types extensively, that I like PCs better. I must be an idiot. It just seems to me that PCs are more customize-able and have more options. Macs seem too simple to me. They don’t do the crazy tasks I want. Just the basics. They are more user-friendly but that just means they are simple and basic. But somehow they have created a mystique. I have to give credit to Apple for that. 

        Now don’t get me wrong. There are some Mac fans I can understand. Ones that look at everything objectively and still like Macs best are people I can continue to have respect for. As long as they continue objectivity.  

        But their condescending brethren are unbearable. They have barely tested anything else but still count Apple as king. Or if they have had tested they do so without objectivity, with their mind already made up, deciding the Mac the winner before the contest begins. 

        I would like to perform a test. One product, obviously not as good, with the Apple logo, and introduced to them personally by Steve Jobs. He would talk the product up as much as he can. 

        The other product would be the same, with a slightly different operating system and a different design. And without the Apple logo. Actually maybe this one should even perform a little bit better. 

        We hand them out to these Mac enthusiasts. Let them try them out and decide which one they like better. Then let Jobs come back and tell them the first was a cheap knock-off and the second the actual Apple product. See how they react. I garuntee all would rate the fake apple better solely because of the logo and then would say they knew it wasn’t Apple as soon as Jobs revealed it to them.  

        Wow was that a rant. I bet nobody reads this far. Haha. I‘m good now. I hope nobody misunderstands me. I think Apple is a very, very smart organization. I just don’t like the products as much and I don’t like the condescending, biased following. Thanks.