Apple: Personification of the Fall of Man, in a Company

First- As you can see by the "My Pages" section (Blog: on the right, Xanga: on top), I'm now on Twitter! Check out my Twitter Profile, and you Twitter users, be sure to follow me! My status is imported to my google talk and AIM statuses, and I also have my current Twitter status on my facebook (status), my blog (right) and my xanga (top). I don't do things half way- I can update it and see my twitter-feed on my phone thanks to jtwitter!

Okay, so in the last several months, nearly a year, I've been drifting away from my Apple-loving roots. The more I think about it, the more I hate a closed-loop operating system, the lack of compatibility, the sheer nonexistence of anything user-controlled/customizable, and the overall dishonesty of Apple as a company.

I've always heard people joke around about how Apple has the symbol of the Fall as their logo, which is true: The apple with a bight missing is the symbol for the fall, regardless of what the fruit was actually like. I'm starting to see that maybe it's true.

They lie in their adverts, constantly. They make claims about Windows (negative) and about themselves (positive), that just simply are not true.

Apple computers, ipods, iphones, and the like are great for people that a: only want to be able to do three or four things, b: want to have the image of artistic ability (although there is absolutely no advantage of Mac/Apple over Windows in this area... NONE!), c: never want to learn to use a computer, or d: don't know how to use a real operating system, like Windows or Ubuntu.

Actually- the iphone is never a good deal. There are so many phones with superior ability, better service (at&t sucks...), customizability, and, oh yeah- you don't have to use a certain provider to use said phones!

Anyway, I was perusing some blogs recently, and I came across this from Donald Miller: How Apple Plays Upon Our Insecurities: Why Apple-Users Might be Fat Losers on the Inside.

I found it rather intriguing, and thought some of you dedicated (or monetarily poor) Windows users might find it encouraging. And maybe some of you agents of Satan, spreading chaos, disorder, sin, and Apple-ness around, might find it enlightening.

There's something unethical about selling substandard hardware set-ups for hundreds of dollars more than the competition, which is meeting the standards; and with telling someone they have more abilities, when in reality they have far less.

Just remember Apple-Users: If Steve Jobs says you don't need it, then you must not need it- because as we all know, Steve Jobs is the only person in the world who knows anything. If there's a business need you have, and Apple can't meet it (like tablet, media center, portability (the real kind)), then it's not a real need.

Sheesh.

Apple-Users make me angry, and there aren't even any around!

I'm gonna go eat some peaches, look out the windows of our cafeteria, and at my Windows 7 beta. Ciao!