Category: MacWarz!

Just as with simple things it’s taken Apple most of a couple of decades to catch up to the typical PC world on (can anyone come up with a sensible defense of the one-button Apple mouse?), the now iconic iPhone has feature-lag problems of its own, it seems,

What do iPhone users want most? According to the results of a survey released today, the top four things that U.S. iPhone users want most are already available from Google’s Android.

The survey, conducted by interactive research firm Vision Critical, lists a choice of wireless network (39 percent) as the number one thing that smartphone buyers in the U.S. would most like to have in the Apple iPhone. Android devices, of course, are available across multiple wireless carriers while the iPhone can only be used (without jailbreaking) on AT&T in the U.S.

*heh* “[J]ailbreaking”–exactly what Apple product users have to do over and over to gain the freedom users of other electronics products with other OSes can do OOtB. When Apple product users awaken to the world of possibilities outside the Apple realm, that is.

Of course, given the Apple Straitjacket approach to users, Apple will get around to providing features users want whenever Apple feels users should have them, which could be tomorrow or the Twelfth of Never, depending on the whims of Apple alone.

Android phones apparently have these user-desired features because it actually has to compete in the market, whereas Apple has millions of Apple-brainwashed Macrodist drones who’ll just buy “anything Apple” simply because the Mothership tells them to, creating a base to “evangelize” their products.

Of course Apple makes some decent hardware, and its BSD operating system–OSX–is good enough, apart from the straitjacket GUI (Of course, it is BSD, so at least Apple “stole from the best”* *heh*). Sad, though, that all Apple’s hardware is constrained by the Apple insidious mind control of weak-minded users. It’s almost as though Apple is building its own Assisted Computing Environment. “Here, dearie, let me make all your decisions for you. Features? These are not the features you are seeking… ” (With insincere apologies to Obi-Wan Kenobi fans.)

And weak-minded Apple drones simply “Baaah” in reply. (Rather like voters at the polls, come to think of it… Maybe Apple’s onto something here. Maybe people in general really are just that stupid.)

With Apple, it’s even more about control of the user than anyone over at the Evil Empire (M$) has ever desired even in their wildest dreams.

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*”stole from the best” is not intended to imply anything illegal on Apple’s part. BSD is open source and Apple is legally free to adopt it as the real operating system that its GUI is the straitjacketed interface for. Of course, all Apple had to do with BSD was figure out a way to slap an interface on top of it that would lock users into its lil fantasy world of Apple Supreme Excellence.

Oh, do keep in mind that my critique of the Apple Straitjacket Fantasy World comes from a perspective that views folks telling me, “Have a nice day” as being pushy and intrusive. (Who are they to tell me what kind of day I should have? I can have a perfectly rotten one if I want to, and it’s none of their business, anyway! *heh*)

I’ve often referred to the “Apple Straitjacket” (or sometimes, in a rush, misspelled as “straightjacket”–my bad :-)), meaning the artificial limitations Apple places on users of its products. Here’s some unintentional “damning-with-faint-praise” in an article on the iPhad from a writer who thinks that’s just dandy:

…none of the hardware in the iPad pushes the leading edge of design, it just does what it needs to do,” [RapidRepair CEO Aaron] Vronko said. “If you look at the Motorola Droid or Google’s Nexus One—which both have 512MB of memory—they’re pushing the edge of what hardware’s currently available. They want to make sure their devices can take on whatever people decide to throw at them, whereas Apple sits back and says, ‘What do we want this device to be able to do?'”

Exactly. While other companies have a desire to accommodate users needs and desires, Apple seeks to define users “needs” as whatever IT wants a user to “need”. (Sounds like The Ø! and his ilk, doesn’t it?) Straitjacket.

*feh* One more reason to mock Apple.

And another: note this evidence of planned obsolescence for the iPhad’s of early adopters:

One interesting bit, he said, was a section near the top of the iPad, near the light sensor. “I’d say that’s definitely designed to host a camera, [likely in a future model] six months or so from now,” Vronko said.

Just more reason to

Take a stand against vanity, conceit, and the cult of personality. Don’t be fooled by purveyors of dumbed-down, locked-down, semi-functional pieces of planned obsolescence. Computers and electronic devices are tools, not fashion accessories. They do not define who you are or what group you belong to. Any company or culture that insists otherwise is deeply creepy. Apple haters unite!

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And more from another source:

You won’t hear much about price elasticity from the first wave of iPad buyers. They will buy the iTurd if Steve Jobs creates it. Apple, however, is targeting the masses. And the masses think in terms of opportunity costs. [As though I really needed to add the emPHAsis *heh*]

From iPhad.com.

Too easy. The iPad: the new low-hanging fruit in Apple mockery.

Addendum: from the site linked above:

Take a stand against vanity, conceit, and the cult of personality. Don’t be fooled by purveyors of dumbed-down, locked-down, semi-functional pieces of planned obsolescence. Computers and electronic devices are tools, not fashion accessories. They do not define who you are or what group you belong to. Any company or culture that insists otherwise is deeply creepy. Apple haters unite!

This post was not written using ANY Apple product.

Child labor, beating employees, widespread flouting of labor laws. Oh, not Apple itself, just those it contracts with to make its products.

I bet that distinction satisfies Sun Danyong. (Just read the article.)