Over the past decade Apple has emerged as perhaps the undisputed champion of delicious technology engineering. More than this it seems to hold true that once you go “App” you won’t want to go back, because Apple products tend to maintain a high level of user satisfaction in comparison with the competition.
I love Apple’s stuff. I wrote this blog post on an Apple laptop, which I’ve had for the past 2 years and I’m almost just as satisfied now with it as when I first got it. I also own an iPhone which I also acquired 2 years ago, and for the most part I am still very happy with the technology, it has been a great source of blessing to me. Apple’s computers are the bomb, and if you regularly do your computing on something other than a Mac then you mostly likely need to switch.
Notwithstanding I haven’t bought into Apples marketing campaign strategy which seems to say, “If you don’t buy our latest product then you are an uncool miserable wretch who wears a goofy brown suit.” Here are 5 reasons why this is especially the case with me concerning Apple’s newest technology - the iPad.
1. Cheese
Shortly after the keynote speech introducing the iPad was over, I was instant messaging with a friend about Apple’s new latest and greatest. My buddy’s first response to the contagious yawn I shared with him over the release was that the name was kinda cheesy. I immediately dittoed the sentiment. I feel like Apple is getting carried away; sticking a lowercase “i” in front of any random name to make sound cool, just feels so 2005. I truly believe this is a convention Apple needs to reevaluate heading into the new decade, especially now that they’ve given to one of their most impressive pieces of hardware technology a name that could easily suit a random 3rd party freeware application that wouldn’t even be worthy of sitting on my OSX dashboard. Continue reading ‘5 Reasons Why the iPad is Not For Me’
