Apple blowing past their third-quarter expectations put me right back in mind of how extremely PISSED I am at Apple. People and Politicians and Profit Centers keep doing that, yanking suspicious-looking stews from back burner to front AND turning up the flame.
GET RID OF THE ANGER. GET RID OF THE ANGER. If I had a thousand bucks for every time a NON-INJURED party said that me, I’d have not financial pressure — and I’d be considerably less angry.
Anger isn’t a stout and uncomplaining workhorse that you can ride hard and put away wet. Anger has to COOL DOWN before you dare put it away, or something is liable to CATCH FIRE.
LOL, I actually started getting so PISSED, I walked away from the screen…for DAYS. Not the computer, mind, the screen. I am on the computer so much, I occasionally wonder if I’m getting 17-cats-minus-the-cats disconnected. But then I remember what it’s LIKE out there. The very MOMENT I go back out there, I am reminded why I PURPOSEFULLY withdrew. It was a LONG PROCESS, and not cheap. I think it’s high time I start making some MONEY for how much I write online but, even if I don’t, at least presently, it seems like exactly what I SHOULD be doing and, within the constraint of NOTHING BEING PERFECT, I reckon I am landed in a fairly excellent place, to do what I should be doing. In “this day and age,” which is to say when MIGHT MAKES RIGHT & RICH MAKES MIGHT, I guess that’s about the best I can do, until the next Right Thing presents itself.
The next Right Thing usually DOES present itself. And it never does BEFORE it does. Sometimes you just don’t know.
It’s my DIRTY DIAPER THEORY. Poor Baby has to sit there in it…squirm…cry…up the ante, writhe and wail…but sit in just the same, until someone comes along and changes it. As “grown ups” (good one), someone or SOMETHING or SELF may instigate Change — a mixed blessing, to be sure — but it still doesn’t happen til it happens. Life is hard. That’s been my experience. To enjoy Life, which seems to me to require being successful enough at Something Not Wicked, without resorting to ignoble methods, that it affords Personal Security & Contentment. No indeed, this is no easy assignment.
I think of this go-round as a CLEARING HOUSE…whose Essence moves forward, whose backward, whose stagnates.
Yep, total tangent.
Apple. My once Shining Knight turned Corporate Marauder.
Yeah, yeah, I know Steve Jobs much revered AND sick. I don’t care. Steve Jobs is ARCHETYPAL for Built-In Obsolescence. Planned obsolescence — and its twisted sisters CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION, IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION, CONSUMER DEBT & ENVIRONMENTAL NIGHTMARE — is a big part of our problem. Huge.
I’ll tell you-whoever-you-are another thing, techno-retard though I am, I have made a LOT of progress computer-wise. Two steps forward and one back, ‘CUZ THEY CHANGE THE GOALPOSTS OFTENER THAN TEENAGE GIRLS CHANGE CLOTHES, but a lot of progress just the same. Manufacturers, Marketers and Politicians would be stunned to learn, I think, how very many people are WAY behind me, computer-wise. Equivalent of 12:00 flashing on the old VCR. Leave ‘em behind at your peril. They vote, and they’re getting seriously PISSED.
‘Bout time, sayeth I.
Parenthetically, the original exclusive between iPhone and AT&T was CONSPIRACY IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE. I am a champion of the Sherman Act.
Anyhoo, THIS was the last straw. I waited YEARS to buy another MacBook Pro. I finally did a few months ago. I was “lucky” the perky salesperson said…it was the last non-glare 15″ screen in the store. SOLD.
NOT ONE WORD about the Lion operating system coming out in brief months.
Here’s how that works, going forward. I speak not highly of Apple. I still use/know/need my laptop…got me a brand new one with an old operating system…but I am NOT gonna “do” iPone or iPad, and I am NOT going to speak further about Apple except to say EMPLOYEES SHOULD ORGANIZE.
As they should everywhere.
Only LOOK AROUND to know puny Individuals are no match for Corporate Titans.
