I HATE APPLE

possible translation: the ipad and devices like it have produced computing's equivalent of philosophy or comp lit: an expensive, self-indulgent diversion

ah, yes, philosophy, that notably expensive exercise

A legacy with no equal.

A sentence with no verb.

ah, yes, philosophy college, that notably expensive exercise

I too long for the dark ages, don't get me wrong

We make things that are easy to use, fun to use

i am picturing derrida saying this

or possibly someone who designs learning resources for stupid kids

who's beefin and why

i'm beefin against SOCIETY

maaaaaaan

http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/images/paperclip_shuttle.gif

i am beefin in honor of tombot, and jon williams and nude spock before them

*LOLs furiosly*

that's the best thing i've seen all week

Ponder for a moment the predecessor to the Apple Store, CompUSA, and what that experience was like versus the new bar for customer service being set by Apple.

but really i think this is the pivotal sentence for me

what i am getting at is that in general, people can tell the difference between an article on lee iacocca and an article on john galliano, an article on jay z and an article on warren buffet. i think that steve jobs sort of muddles all of those parts together, and what disturbs me is the uncritical celebration of all of them equally, as if they're all the same thing.

the worst part about that sentence is that it is terribly written

i don't think there's an equivalency happening, the suggestion in these let's-call-them obits is that he was an impressive polymath.

ronin who never had a true master, so he had to create his own

the worst part of that sentence is the idea that america has become the world leader in "customer service"

how do you export customer service, i ask you

how is a predecessor an experience? why is an experience being compared to "[a] new bar of customer service"? why is that bar "being set" instead of having just been "set" already? how does anyone use the word "ponder," ever, and still take themselves seriously as a person that uses words*? i ask you.

*apologies to ned raggett here, obv

If you ask me, anything beneath Assembly is pandering to stupid idiot consumers. j/k

http://i.imgur.com/TtWYF.jpg

ha

btw congratulate my wife on her new MBP

congrats, mrs. p3rry!

eve pwned

Can't people just learn to get along? Even the 800 year old busted robot ended up with the love of his life.

At CompUSA I picked up something I wanted, carried it to the register, paid and walked out.

At an Apple Store, I fight for space with a crowd of yuppies and yuppie-children, try to flag down a lackey for service, evade them trying to sell me anything, tell them what I want, wait for them to go find one, then wait for them to make their handheld register work and finally get to pay and leave.

Fuck Apple Stores, IMO.

Milo Z? the band?

Sounds like your Apple Store sucks, man.

I usually walk over directly to what I need, some drone asks if I need something, and I yell "SCAN THIS HERE'S MY CARD MY EMAIL IS (my email) THANK YOU SIR!"

sooo.. iTunes Match is in beta

"some drone"? it would be interesting to know what the "drones" make of your robotic all-caps sgt. major dickface schtick, mh

whatever they would make of it, it would be in a tasteful font and elegantly designed

"some drone"? it would be interesting to know what the "drones" make of your robotic all-caps sgt. major dickface schtick, mh

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, August 30, 2011 4:50 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

easy tiger

I AM DRONE-MAN, HEAR ME ROAR

Meantime, turns out iTunes Match *does* allow for streaming:

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/29/itunes-match-allows-both-streaming-and-downloading-of-music/

so this is basically Spotify for ppl with no friends?

(obv ignoring the file uploading)

so this is basically Spotify for ppl with no friends?

― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 13:48

*signs up*

recently I seem to have become spotify santa as I keep getting all these "invitation tokens"

spotify for ppl that hate ads?

if you pay for Spotify, you don't get ads

is there a free option for Apple Match? doesn't appear to be

so this is basically Spotify for ppl with no friends?

― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Tuesday, August 30, 2011 1:48 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no that's Post your Audiosrobbler userlink so we can always watch what you're listening to

if you pay for Spotify, you don't get ads

is there a free option for Apple Match? doesn't appear to be

ah assumed Match was free for some dumb reason

Probably got the tone wrong, I was going for a "rushing my request out in a monotone before my agoraphobia kicks in due to the hundreds of families around the store." I'm a corporate drone in a cubicle, but Apple Store employees get to buzz around. No classism.

Btw I prefer "major dicknose" as a title

via "ACTUALLY ..." (no eye contact aspie hardman geek banter)

omg lol

haha i didn't mean to link to that post, but it is definitely the best post in that thread

I was going for more aspie and less hardman but the absence of affect always makes it hard to differentiate.

I kind of think the Apple Store is actually designed to be counter-intuitive and disruptive to aspie hardmen to keep them away! It's a feature.