the traumatic life

Here I am, sitting in rural Ontario well away from broadband. There’s a fire going, we’ve got some local beef marinating. A perfect summer’s evening away from the city.
And still, I’ve got my music with me, I am keeping an eye on a number of projects I am working on, my email finds me if I want to be found, my GPS tells me where I am in the woods and I can call Europe for the price of a local call. From my iPhone.
Apple isn’t perfect, not infallible, but right now there is nothing out there that even remotely matches their products.
I am not an Apple fanboi, I use whatever tool gets the job done best, and I realize that you have a commitment to your new paymasters but that cartoon was just a cheap shot.

Oh, don’t worry about me – I am as relaxed as they come this fine evening. And I wasn’t trying to be an ads, honestly. But you know, people like you and me are hired guns. We might have convictions, and I know you do, but we put these convictions in the service of the people who pay us. Nothing wrong with that, were I selling my talents to Dell right now I’d shoot at Apple too. That’s the deal after all.
So again, no harm intended. Just keping things real.

I’m with Jed. I love Apple; I have an iMac, an iBook and and iPhone. My whole life is iLife. And yet, when they are fallible, we have to call them out just as if they were Dell.
I had a bad experience with Apple a while back. (http://talkitup.typepad.com/weblog/customer_service/page/2/) It was so unacceptable that I blogged about it and came under attack from other Apple fans who apparently didn’t realize what a fan I was myself.
Heartbreaking to realize, but yes, Apple can have crappy customer service and buggy products, just like the next guy.