wow this is a first; a hate site for the iphone? well honestly people, you all had it coming. this is why apple is exactly the same as any other mega conglomerate out there; except that they are probably the slimiest of them all. Why? Because of their marketing. Their marketing makes you think "oohh, but we're not like other companies. we're Apple. down with those other mass conforming companies and their conformist ways! we are the better and only alternative you need to choose! give us your money and we'll give you the highest quality product we can make! :P " conformist companies? pffff... please. apple is IMO worse than any other mega-con. to date. if they are so "anti conformist" and "rebellious" and "sticking it to the man", why is it that practically all their products (save their computers/select laptops) have such a low limit to their hard drive? i mean 8 gb? and the thing thats really twisted is that (unless you're an engineer) you can't add on a memory card (something that pretty much all other electronic based companies have embraced due to the wide selection of different amounts of memory). and thats the key to their conniving ways. they make you think that whatever product you have (be it computer, laptop, media player, in this case phone; hell, even if its a freaking apple product) is old, obsolete, and should be tossed when the new,bigger storage, faster, slimmer, shinier iproduct is released by steve "i sold my soul to the devil" Jobs at next quarter's WWDC. And you know what the scary part is? people are buying into it. they think they're being anti conformist? they just bought a product that was made specifically for the demographic they are in: young, stupid, and full of trust fund (and/or just plain) money. they think "oh, its an apple. im being rebellious and sticking it to the man by buying this iproduct" oh yeah? you just dropped a large ammount of X dollars on a product you cant upgrade (in terms of memory) based on the fact that the only reason you chose this alternative was to be "alternative". but in reality you've become another pawn in their conglomerate scheme, willing to buy the next iproduct at the drop of a hat as soon as it is released, in some cases no matter what the cost, and you'll do it again, thus continuing the vicious and dark cycle that keeps apple maintaining this image of perfectness wrapped in inconformity and covered with a sleek plastic white, black, aluminum and or multi colored shell that may or may not have a large enough HD. but now, with this Iphone they have really outdone themselves. they made the world think that the telephone (the telephone, people! its made to make phone calls!) was obsolete and dull... unless if you had the iPhone. oh, its got an Ipod. Its got the internet. it has a camera. wouldn't you like all that as well as the simple ability to do what a cell phone was first designed to do? Make a phone call? please.. but i have to admit their brainwashing has gotten good enough to where they have throngs upon throngs of piggy banks waiting outside of their stores to pick one up; like a heroin addict eager for their next fix. just like how anyone who actually bought an iphone and reads this (hopefully) will stop for a second and think before they put aside $500 in the "apple" jar when the iphone 2 is released june 9, 2008 at the WWDC in San Francisco, "huh, i better buy that iphone before they run out in preperation for the next one!" okay, if you really have read into this rant all the way up to here and actually agree with some/all of what i have said, feel free to repost it anywhere.i don't care about plagiarism or credit or anything like that, i just want it to snowball. besides, good writers cite their references, but geniuses steal ideas and make it better : ) (okay just one request; add that last line about plagiarism to any rant {if you really want to} so if one day i do see it on some other site i can be happy knowing that it is snowballing) thanks for sticking around this long : )
wow this is a first; a hate site for the iphone? well honestly people, you all had it coming. this is why apple is exactly the same as any other mega conglomerate out there; except that they are probably the slimiest of them all. Why? Because of their marketing. Their marketing makes you think "oohh, but we're not like other companies. we're Apple. down with those other mass conforming companies and their conformist ways! we are the better and only alternative you need to choose! give us your money and we'll give you the highest quality product we can make! :P " conformist companies? pffff... please. apple is IMO worse than any other mega-con. to date. if they are so "anti conformist" and "rebellious" and "sticking it to the man", why is it that practically all their products (save their computers/select laptops) have such a low limit to their hard drive? i mean 8 gb? and the thing thats really twisted is that (unless you're an engineer) you can't add on a memory card (something that pretty much all other electronic based companies have embraced due to the wide selection of different amounts of memory). and thats the key to their conniving ways. they make you think that whatever product you have (be it computer, laptop, media player, in this case phone; hell, even if its a freaking apple product) is old, obsolete, and should be tossed when the new,bigger storage, faster, slimmer, shinier iproduct is released by steve "i sold my soul to the devil" Jobs at next quarter's WWDC. And you know what the scary part is? people are buying into it. they think they're being anti conformist? they just bought a product that was made specifically for the demographic they are in: young, stupid, and full of trust fund (and/or just plain) money. they think "oh, its an apple. im being rebellious and sticking it to the man by buying this iproduct" oh yeah? you just dropped a large ammount of X dollars on a product you cant upgrade (in terms of memory) based on the fact that the only reason you chose this alternative was to be "alternative". but in reality you've become another pawn in their conglomerate scheme, willing to buy the next iproduct at the drop of a hat as soon as it is released, in some cases no matter what the cost, and you'll do it again, thus continuing the vicious and dark cycle that keeps apple maintaining this image of perfectness wrapped in inconformity and covered with a sleek plastic white, black, aluminum and or multi colored shell that may or may not have a large enough HD. but now, with this Iphone they have really outdone themselves. they made the world think that the telephone (the telephone, people! its made to make phone calls!) was obsolete and dull... unless if you had the iPhone. oh, its got an Ipod. Its got the internet. it has a camera. wouldn't you like all that as well as the simple ability to do what a cell phone was first designed to do? Make a phone call? please.. but i have to admit their brainwashing has gotten good enough to where they have throngs upon throngs of piggy banks waiting outside of their stores to pick one up; like a heroin addict eager for their next fix. just like how anyone who actually bought an iphone and reads this (hopefully) will stop for a second and think before they put aside $500 in the "apple" jar when the iphone 2 is released june 9, 2008 at the WWDC in San Francisco, "huh, i better buy that iphone before they run out in preperation for the next one!" okay, if you really have read into this rant all the way up to here and actually agree with some/all of what i have said, feel free to repost it anywhere.i don't care about plagiarism or credit or anything like that, i just want it to snowball. besides, good writers cite their references, but geniuses steal ideas and make it better : ) (okay just one request; add that last line about plagiarism to any rant {if you really want to} so if one day i do see it on some other site i can be happy knowing that it is snowballing) thanks for sticking around this long : )
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