Got one of the new fangled EPhones, I mean IPhones
July 15th, 2008

It’s official. I am now one of the technorati. I bought one of those Apple deelys and it’s groovy I must say. In fact I’m using it right now, on a train! It’s everything you’ve come to expect from Apple, smooth, sleek, sexy with the underlying of feeling of “my bat, my ball” we’ve come to expect from our beloved technological empires.

As a piece of equipment for doing everything it’s supposed to do, it’s great, colour me satisfied. All the bells and whistles that can keep a shallow person like me entertained for hours. BUT…it’s outright refusal to work outside it’s strictly defined happy place and it’s staunch opposition to play with the other kids on my desktop has troubled me somewhat. If you try to connect it to another instance of iTunes other than the one it’s synced with it complains and the at feint whiff of anything other than iTunes sends it into a full blown hissy fit of screaming, tears and error messages. I’ve had to factory restore it 3 times as it runs home to mummy (iTunes) to have it’s tummy rubbed. My iPhone is a spoiled only child, the type that eat their smaller siblings.

Now my protestations here are rather more theatrical than my actual opinion, it’s not my iPhones fault it’s parents are over protective twats who probably eat organic food to look sophisticated. It just seems these limitations are put in place to keep you in the Apple district. What more do they want? I just paid for the fucking thing, would be nice to be able to use it how I wanna use it.

It being Apple as well makes it worse. They give off this impression of the progressive, web 2.0 embracing hipster bohemians whilst seemingly embracing the “my way or the highway buddy!” approach by Bill of Gates and his army of bespectacled toadies. The whole scene is tainted by hypocrisy…and that makes me a sad panda.

My hippy objections aside, it really is nifty gizmoid. I just wish Apple were actually as cool with it as they wanna look like they are.

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