Anger is an Energy

Have now got an iPhone - have spent years refusing to buy anything by Apple. I own a Sony Connect player rather tahn an iPod, I use a PC rather than a Mac, I’ve balked at using iTunes and instead always relied on Microsofts Media Player or WinAmp for my music but I’ve succumbed and got an iPhone. And its fucking fantastic - ubiquitous computing gone good. I really should have paid more attention in those leactures about it at university - I had hangovers to deal with instead and these were always far more pressing than combining a phone with a music device.

I’ve still not going to buy an Apple Mac - I don’t care what Stephen Fry says (he almost convinced me but I’ve stayed resolute).

1. they do look lovely - so would be out fo place in my house
2. I like mice with two buttons not one (and buying a mouse with two buttons seems bloody stupid to me)
3. I don’t know anyone (except Stephen Fry and I’ve never met him so he doesn’t count) who I like who owns one

As an aside iTunes is a crap piece of software - say I want to add one album to my phone using my PC at home and this copy of iTunes contains different songs from my machine at work I often end up losing whole piles of songs. It even deleted my copy of house on the haunted hill that I bought just to see the quality of movie I could get. Why cant I just drag a song from my library to my iPhone and it’ll get transferred. Maybe the one fingered Mac using mutants can’t ‘drag and drop‘. Maybe its a ‘feature’ - this always seems to translate as a fuck up or design mistake that a company cant be arsed fixing.

This last point is my core problem with Apple stuff I have to relearn how to do things. I’m not an OAP, I’m not senile, I’m not an idiot but I have to go away and learn new ways to do things that should be intuitive. If you look at the new Google browser - it works and is a new way of doing things. But no one really noticed any great difference - they just had a larger space to view web pages.

Apple have made me try and relearn what I already know and it is making me angry.

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