Swany will give you the lowdown, and I’ll give you my sum up. Although I confess to drooling over Mac desktops at the local Apple store while Christmas shopping for IPod accessories for Tellulah's IPod, which she uses like an emphysema patient uses those air tanks they wheel around with them, constantly and needfully, I do not plan on buying said Mac desktops until there is a more open gaming market for them, which will likely not happen now that Windows Vistas is being released aimed directly at PC Gamers and engineered almost in its entirety to make pc gaming better and faster and brighter and cooler, and advertising for the new OS centered around the updated gaming application up to and including Windows Vistas PC Gaming Kiosks along the line of the Xbox 360 demo stations coming to a store near you, but the IPhone? As Morrissey of The Smiths sang... Please, Please, Please Let Me, Let Me, Let Me Get What I Want This Time.
I ache in a vaguely naughty way to possess this holiest of grails.
I really do feel sorry, though, for the handful that purchased the Zune in an orgiastic fervor and belief in Microsoft understanding what consumers need and want in a handheld music player. Their understanding of these things, compared to Apple’s? Let’s say Microsoft is Insane Clown Posse, and we’ll say Apple is Fleetwood Mac. There is a distinct group of people who believe IPC is the end all of music, but they will eventually grow up and burn out on it, and end up listening to Fleetwood Mac when they realize that Fleetwood Mac really did have what they wanted all along but in a much more pleasant and user friendly package, and the IPC listeners will realize they were really just trying to be different and going through a phase.
But if Apple figures out how to get the gaming audience? They will truly be the lone rebel who brings down the mighty overlord, just like the '1984' inspired commercials for the Apple IIC so long ago. A prophecy fulfilled? By a company named after the fruit who was both mankinds downfall and and eviction notice from Eden? Maybe the touch screen is the easier, more seductive path that leads to the dark side. And if it is?
Apple is my dark master now.
4 comments:
Yeah, sometimes I wonder how Microsoft and Apple can be so vastly different in their levels of creativity and innovation.
Steve Jobs was brilliant when he switched to Intel processors. Surely, it can't be too long until they figure out how to run the current video games natively on a Mac.
Oh, and I have to ask--is Insane Clown Posse a real band? I honestly don't know if you just made that up.
They are a band, but I have a hard time calling what they do "music." I could record myself farting in a tin bucket and produce better music.
I shouldn't have written that. Watch, it will be on their next album.
Just like Wander said, it is hard to call what they make music. They do have this wierd cultish following though. I will never forget going to rent a movie at a BallBuster near the Fillmore in Denver. When we came out there was this dude all hopped up on coke, crystal meth, something all painted like an insane clown trying to steal our car. He thought it was his. The three of us could easily have taken him, but we didn't know what the drugs would enable him to do. Luckily there was a tow truck driver that loudly offered us the use of his handgun to take car of the problem. That was when he decided that his car must be somewhere other than the one he was sitting in.
And you and the missus are considering moving back to Denver? I hear more true grit crime stories from people who've lived in Denver than I do from people from any place else.
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