I'm currently sitting here; in college, on my laptop, wearing festival wristbands and high-top shoes. Reasons I'm not a hipster I hear you call? Because I don't own an any Apple products. Occasionally I'll walk past a cafe in town, and smell the warm scent of coffee, before it quickly turns into a bitter, fowl taste in my mouth, when I see the hordes of hipsters with there iPads drinking their over-priced [and over-named] coffees.
JUST GET A LATTE, IT'S NOT THAT HARD‽
[Note the use of the interrobang]
Reasons why I hate Apple [or just Steve jobs in general, bastard.] Apple is the number one exploiter of the public by using a brand label to significantly increase prices for relatively simple pieces of hardware, and to some extent, software.
My favourite example of the above is this little piece of kit here...
..this is the 'Twelve South BookArc Desktop Stand'. This, is purely and simply a stand that elevates a macbook off the desk by a good, 2-3 inches. It's a useful idea, it would probably work very well and provide a damned near stunning 2-3 inches of room below the white behind of the macbook. But is it really worth $49.95?
I think that's a hideous price to pay and I think Steve Jobs should be shot, and spend less money on glass windows for his Apple stores and decrease the prices of his technology.
Power adapter: $79
Wireless Keyboard: $69
iPod earphones: $29
Now, let me clarify. If you do a lot of media editing then by all means, get a mac. I'm not doubting the capabilities of the hardware or software. But don't pay the extortionate prices for simple things just because they have a stupid grey apple printed on the buttocks of a plug.
However, a rare thing here on DubiousRants...
I think iPods are great, over-priced, but with the competition on the market being so useless, I firmly agree. They're the more reliable, accessible and appear in so many ways for people to fit them into their daily lives.
However, Steve Jobs has a secondary master plan. The Inferiority Scheme. In simpler terms...
HERE IS THE NEW IPOD! OMG NO WAY THIS ONE IS INVISIBLE!!
I think that by now, Apple developers have probably created something that'll solve world hunger and cure AIDS, but until someone else releases these things, they wont bother. In order to stay in permanent competition. The iPod, good portable music/video/app device. Then the iPod nano came with it's camera. Then the video camera, then the touch got a camera.. etc etc. The second the prices begin to become too expensive for consumers and sales go down, Steve Jobs cracks the whip and gets a new feature and the prices sky-rocket again.
I'm not a hipster, I don't like Apple, I don't like Steve Jobs, I'll never think differently or join the revolution. Fuck you Steve Jobs, go and have another game of slaps with Bill Gates.
