Quiet! The King shall make a Proclamation!
I sincerely love Apple. I own a ton of their gear for all the reasons everyone else does. So it’s ironic that I feel a little tweaked by all the hoopla surrounding the next iPhone unveiling. But here’s why I do.
I feel powerless. I feel like a subject awaiting what the good (?) King will bestow upon us this time. The result could be pleasing, boring, useful, useless. It doesn’t matter really because it has nothing to do with me. I am a minion. Now, if I don’t like it I can simply ignore it, which is a type of power I admit. But that’s the rub. On the one hand I am a tech acolyte. I deeply believe that technology can and will help us all live better, longer and richer lives. So I listen and watch, like the rest of you, hoping that the powers that be give/bequeath upon us something that justifies that belief. Most of the time I’m let down. Feeling powerless.
Which is why we started Bug Labs. We don’t intend to compete with the big kingdoms of CE on their terms. We want to arm the subjects! 
May 30th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
stange that you get that feeling with iphone, but not the rest of the apple black boxes…
May 31st, 2008 at 12:52 am
I would have never imagined that you were a Mac fan. Isn’t Apple the exact opposite of what you are? The most closed, proprietary, use-my-stuff-only-or-you-will-die-in-pain company existing?
/me is confused…
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May 31st, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Thanks for the comments.
turn.self.off – I feel it about all their products but picked on the iPhone because of all the latest press.
Francesco – Apple is definitely the exact opposite of what we are. But that doesn’t stop me from liking their laptops
June 1st, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I just recalled that supposedly woz stopped showing up for work at apple after a argument with jobs on the level of hackability of the first mac. Woz wanted it to be more like the apple ii, jobs wanted it more of a black box…