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Apple Hater…NOT
Sometimes, when you love something too much, the pain of watching it becomes too much.
I get a lot of emails calling me an 'Apple Hater' and by the use of that statement alone, it shows how few of you actually have even taken the time to know me, listen to me and hear what I am actually saying.
I own 26 Macintosh Computers. The skype wall is run on 3 Mac Minis, one Macbook Pro 17" and two Macbook Airs. The computer that broadcasts the feed for shows is a MacPro kindly donated by @DonMcAllister and the computer to my right which handles all the virtual screens is a 15" Macbook Pro. Finally the computer that does Wirecast and 'Browser shots' in front of me is a 15" Retina Macbook Pro. I own an original iPhone, 3g, 3gs and 4s. I own an original iPad, iPad3, iPad4 and iPad Air. Again, although I don't use them because I think they are rubbish, I have 2 trackpads and 3 New Magic Mice. And thats not me getting into the vintage Apple equipment I own, some in the original packaging.
Is that enough Apple Equipment for one Apple Hater?
My problem is for me, Apple is like a Girlfriend on Heroin. Canon is the same at times. You love them. You ache for them but just when you think everything is going to be fine, they slip back into the bad habits.
Like all corporations they do things to protect their markets and I have no problem with that but then rather than being honest they issue some spin that's 'Doing it for the Kids' or 'On the grounds of Health and Safety' - I reference Canon's battery chipping so that only genuine batteries will give accurate charge information in their cameras and their chargers won't even charge them (their batteries are 3 times the price of others and no two models carry the same battery and thus battery grip) I'm not talking utter rubbish bought from the street, I'm talking about respected long term brands like Hahnel. And then there are copyright & patent disputes and who ends up paying...The Consumer.
Apple released iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ two weeks ago in a dire technical maelstrom that surely saw someone fired. The ordering process was a painful one for many people but with demand at a stupid level, I actually think they did pretty well. And finally, yesterday at gone 6pm I got my iPhone 6+
First impressions were..."Damn that's Slippery" a fact echoed by @DonMcAllister on twitter almost immediately. I dropped my iPhone6+ 3 times last night just looking at it on the sofa and so did Ellis my son. I'd like to tell you more about it but...you can't see any of the feature set without having a Nano Sim, which I don't and despite the comments about it being 'All about the Ecosystem and very little about the phone anymore', you have to activate the phone before you can even see the ecosystem. Thats just wrong and that goes for ALL phone manufacturers who practice this.
"Don't judge the entire phone just because its slippery" said my great friend on twitter, Kyle Swager.
I'm not. I just have that awful feeling of foreboding, that I am going to have to wade through the usual excuses and BS that surrounds Apple at the moment and it does, it really does.
"This is the thinnest device we've ever made" - Yeah but its so slippery that I daren't use it without a £40 leather case. Not so thin anymore and wait £40! WTF! Your phone is in my opinion overpriced as it is and the accessories just have 'Kick me' written all over them. "Ahh but thats because...". Shush, not interested.
I cant wait to open the phone and try the camera but I fear what lies within. I would LOVE to be back in the Apple Ecosystem and pull on my 'Fanboy' Tee but I can't. And thats why I went to a Windows Phone in the first place, not because I felt the need to be reactionary or a poster boy for Windows. I just couldnt take the heartache of being so let down by The iOS Experience.
Sorry to say, that even after over a year, My Girlfriend is still 'using' and it breaks my heart. It breaks my heart.
Ewen
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Ewen Rankin