Fuck You, Apple!
So, the iPhone OS version 3.0 is out. And it costs $9.95? Fuck you Apple!
Here's what you get:
- Buy movies, TV shows, and audiobooks via WiFi
- Stereo Bluetooth headphones
- Peer-to-peer gaming via Bluetooth
- Cut, Copy, and Paste
- Landscape keyboard in more built-in apps
- Spotlight search
Okay, let's look at this, bullet-by-bullet:
- Who cares? How often am I going to need to do this? Like, never? I don't download movies, I rip them from DVD. I don't watch much TV and what I do watch tends to be old TV shows, like the Mary Tyler Moore show, which I buy on DVD and then rip. And I don't listen to books. I read them.
- Can't use. First gens don't have Bluetooth.
- Ditto.
- Should have been in the OS from the start.
- Ditto.
- Who cares? How much actual data do you think is in one of these? On my desktop, cross-application searching is very useful. But on an 8 gig device? Not so much.
So, toting it up, we have 2 don't cares, 2 can't uses, and 2 features that should have been in the goddamn OS from the start. Again, fuck you Apple!
And the worst thing? I'm gonna have to buy it to get the 2 things that should have been there at the start.
I've realized that there are 2 Apple companies. One makes great computers with a great OS built on open standards. The other makes consumer devices and services that'll ram you up the ass at every opportunity!
(So, why do I have an iPod touch? Got it free with an iMac. I would not pay money for an iPod of any sort. And I don't buy a damn thing through iTunes. Damn kids! Git offa my lawn!)
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