iMorons

I think my iPod is great, handy and nicely designed, with Apple's tendency towards simplicity and ease-of-use very evident in the interface. I can take all my favourite music with me with space enough left to have a handy portable hard drive with me.

While the new Motorola ROKR iTunes enabled phone was a pretty big dissapointment, I was very impressed by the new iPod Nano. While everybody else is playing catch-up with the standard iPod Apple have moved on already to high capactiy flash-memory based players which are [thinner than a pencil].

I am even taking a plunge into the deep end and purchasing my first Apple computer: [17" Powerbook]. Not just for asthetic reasons; with the opening of my new business [2+2=5 Designs] it is actually for practical reasons. Plus I've been using Apple's OSX Tiger a lot lately and well, as far as I am concerned the hype is true, it is an excellent operating system, light years ahead of Micro$oft. You can officially call me an Apple convert. I'm only going to keep my Windows destop for games and as a workhorse for converting video.

Which is why this annoys me even more: [Me and My iPod].

Fucking twits! Taking pictures of themselves with their iPods. If ever the term "get a life" had a purpose it is in this case. I mean fuck it, it's easy to "hate" Apple (or the iPod specifically) because it has become so ubiquitous and the yuppies think it defines them, but these twits are making it harder for me to like what is at the end of the day a great little device.

These days, when I see those white earbuds I even feel like ripping them off peoples' heads and ramming them down their throats because people use them like a marker of their hipness. From my own perspective I've even become a little ashamed of my iPod to the extent that I try to hide it as much as I can when using it.

BUT it is a great product, so credit where credit is due, even if the cult surrounding it is populated by mindless automatons.

And whatever about the pictures, I had to laugh at this guys iPod tattoo... [Music Sold (?) Seperately]