Apple zealotry continues with iPad 2
As you may know I wrote a piece about the first iPad some time ago
and find that as with iPhone it is just hilarious to see the same "development
cycle" continue. So here we have these Apple fan boys buying the first
iPad because everything Apple makes is awesome right? Instantly they get
huge amount of critics and since people have a habit of protecting their
decisions these followers start to protect Apple. Maybe they bought iPad
and it was piece of crap but they will still protect it since it was
quite an investment and they are being attacked and they take it
personally.
You see it over and over again but what I find most amusing is that after launching their first version of whatever product Apple always seems like it already has a plan to launch version 2 of the same product. Now if those zealots are protecting the first version of iPad with their last breath even though they might feel inside that it isn't actually that awesome product indeed then it might seem almost natural to buy iPad 2 because.... it has all the previous versions problems fixed!!! Hurray!! What a brilliant concept!
You will never see a Apple fanboy saying "Ok ok... the first version did actually suck but the second version is good" but you'll see many of them buy multiple versions of the same product. Sure there is nothing wrong with buying good products that are practical and useful but since when do people buy computers not because they will help you compute but because they are sexy or cool. These are the same people who will join Greenpeace or some other green movement one year to protest against industry polluting environment just because it is fucking cool and trendy. Then next year they'll buy iPod mini, nano, shuffle and also iPod mega-giga forgetting all about their previous ideals. In fact they might even try to prove how environment friendly Apple is with its manufacturing in China and everything :)
Sure some people like to listen to music and it is not like there haven't been devices for doing just that around for quite some time. What is funny is that when any Apple computer-device(yes I did say that, doesn't sound that sexy anymore?) comes out everyone and their dog buys it. They don't really have any need for it. If you ask them about this then they can't even explain why they need one but they are sure that need to buy it. After few months they barely even remember that they own one though or it will just break which is quite common too.
I have never been able to explain it but I do notice a parallel with
fashion. Somebody organizes a huge fashion show or constantly pushes
some collection or brand on TV and then suddenly everyone has to get it
because it is the latest hot shit and even more when it is so fucking
expensive that it is nuts. Then it has to be good.. right? Trends
require some behavior or object to be perceived as novel. Note that I
said perceived not to be actually novel since most Apple stuff hasn't
actually been novel at all. Of course it also has to be easily
accessible and perhaps this is why Apple stuff is actually perceived as
novel. So what we have this far is a company that makes computers that
are easy to use and stupid people perceive it as novel since they don't
know anything about computers or why they should own one. BUT because it
is SEXY they have to get it and because it is EXPENSIVE they have to get
it even more since then they can also brag about it. Often enough these
are the same people who come to borrow some money from you to buy food
since they spent all their money on crap.
What these people don't seem to get is that computers can't be simple. Sure every software company tries to make their product easy to use but what Apple is doing is oversimplification so that even brain dead could use the device. Because Adobe software series runs on iMac it doesn't make iMac some sort of artists tool. Even funnier is fact that Steve Jobs the head of Apple is actually aligned against Adobe because of Adobe Flash. iPad and all these other gadgets might be useful to few people but for 90% of the owners they are just a stupid toy.
It is a nice piece of furniture but when you ask anyone who does any kind of work with computers they prefer something that actually works and doesn't try to do everything in their own way just because they can. If you are 3D animator for example and Apple made software by their ideals that tried to oversimplify everything then you would be like a pianist who used this software to create sheet music. You might get your 15 minutes of fame but that would be about it because of your shallowness. Imagine dentist who only knows how to drill but not anything else??
So now that we have established that computers aren't simple we should also establish that computers aren't sexy, trendy or anything like that. If you think they are then you are just very easily affected by peer pressure and you would buy a $1000 calculator if somebody designed it shiny looking and clueless people told you that it is the greatest shit ever.
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Exkild reviewing iPad 2
One of the easiest ways to understand typical Apple products consumer is to watch this iPad 2 parody video by Exkild. Actually the video is definitely nicely done and suggested to watch by me but after watching it you should check out the comments below this Youtube video. When 1/3 of the people commenting on the video think that a guy with iMac who did some video editing is actually using real Apple product called iPad 2 then you will understand what is wrong with average consumer. They are clueless - they don't know anything and they don't want to know anything. They basically act like a herd and paradoxically at the same time they all like "spotlight".
Problem with these guys is that they usually 100% believe that money is evil. What's that? Mommy doesn't give you money to go buy new Call of Duty? You have to do your own laundry because mommy has to go to work? Oh noes! These people have watched so many conspiracy movies usually that if you talk with them long enough you will think that they are crazy. You are wrong though - they are just brainwashed, well maybe slightly retarded selfish assholes who don't wash themselves. School was really shit for them and well dealing with issues is generally very shitty thing to do also, not part of their life at all. At least to extent normal people have to deal with stuff daily. They maybe never knew or quickly forgot what money is really about when they were thought about it. That it is medium of exchange for what you have offered for other people. So if you fix somebodies house it would be nice if they did something in return for you - for example feed you for next 3 years. Since you are not sure what you want at the moment though you will get money, so you get to decide what this house fixing will be awarded with, simple as that.
Yes there are no more points. I could list all kinds of problems with it
like being only limited to software in App Store(free software
disappears, good stuff is paid, there is censoring etc) or being locked
down to only one network or to memory cards that nobody uses. If you are
still not convinced since you are such a Apple fanboy then you might
also want to know that you can't watch your faggy friends fanboy videos
about how cool they are with their new iPad aka iTampon because it
doesn't play flash! Yes, no Youtube for you or any of those other trendy
web bling-blings you faggots send to each other. So besides being
limited to a shitty network you also are limited to.. umm watching
photos and reading with it? Oh right this device can't also multitask,
so you can't listen to music and watch photos of cute bunnies with it at
the same time for example. This surely can't be hip for all the trendy
people of today.. ugh.. reading, seriously?! Didn't Amazon already do
something like this anyway with Kindle but didn't actually name their
product electronic maxipad?

So there is going to be State of the Union address 2010 tomorrow by
Barack Obama. Hopey changey almost made me laugh my brains out when I
saw him saying "We want our money back" on the TV. What.. is he getting
tips from Cuba now? I'm pretty confident that he has prepared well for
this address but it will be still fun to watch. At the same time it is
really sad because he has been under lot of pressure lately because of
his wrong decisions and even worse ideas.
It is funny to see people who voted him still trying to protect him.
When it would have been any other president then everyone would be
saying what they really mean but instead of that we have people who
still think Barack Obama is a superhero or something. If people would be
honest then they would just say that Obama sucks but they can't. They
can't because their bond with this wet dream is so strong that when they
admit that he really does suck there would be strong feeling of personal
failure.