iCrap

Seems people are having a love-hate relationship with Apple lately. Recently, the wikipedia page was defaced, describing Apple as a "dick licking company." I see that's been fixed and returned to G-rated goodness.

The Apple crew have been in the news a lot, lately, for many reasons. There was the iPhone, the next generation iPods, and new versions of the iLife entertainment suite and iWork office package. In fact, I'm pretty sure that at this point Apple could announce some kind of gadget called the iCrap and it would sell.

Some may say that there is already an iCrap, that being the brick early adopters shat when the $200 price drop for the iPhone was announced. Hehe. Fooled you, Macheads! Well, at least there was a $100 rebate to sooth the ruffled feathers. Those of you fortunate enough to have the option of purchasing an iPhone are a small but slowly growing minority. We're, what, coming up on two months after the US release, with only the UK and Germany officially lined up with official release dates. Canada is not even of the radar screen at this point.

I suppose those Canadians jealous of our southern pals can content themselves with the iPod Touch, basically an iPhone without the phone. Which may actually be a good thing, since Apple has caught a great deal of flak by locking the iPhone in each contry into a single carrier's network, AT&T stateside, O2 in the UK and T-mobile in Germany.

Then there was the 300-page iPhone bill. Yeah, itemised reporting of web data transfers was pretty dumb.

All the little oopses aside, I'm glad that Apple is gaining market share across the board and sticking it to Microsoft. The Zune was so worth it just to watch MS crash and burn (which is much more fun than when thier OS does the same). I'm very much hoping for a iPod in my stocking and plan to get a Macbook when my current Compaq is ready to be put out to pasture.