Apple Fanatsics

No, today I will not talk about fanatics of healthy living, just few observations about the more fanatic part of Apple community.

I always loved technology. I remember waiting for first usable e-paper readers, following all news about e-ink technology, dreaming about getting one someday. My dreams finally came true and I am a proud owner of Bebook Neo which I love to the core. It has everything I want, maybe few things I would like to change, but they are only there because limitation of technology.

There is no way that I never heard of Apple, especially now. I remember them when they started as Macintosh company and then I thought that they maybe up to something. Time has passed, company changed name, became popular, you could even see adverts of it in tv. Is there anybody tech orientated that didn't saw PC vs Mac ads? For me this ad made me loose interest in Apple product. I always were using PCs and I found ad redundant to the core. Showing that if you don't use our product, you are a boring person with no personality and with limitations beyond believe just made me cringe inside.

On this day I decided to never ever use Apple products as I found false advertising annoying. Two years have passed and iPhone came out. I remember all the news leaked by company to tech news, trying to rise curiosity in potential consumers. I admit that even I was tempted by this siren song from beyond. Then I read specifications. No flash, company can remotely delete stuff from your phone, block it, you can only use apple pre-approved products? No, no touch screen technology was worth the small print on the bottom of specifications. I got another phone, maybe not so "amazing" but I love it, it does what I need and I am away from Apple again.

When I started to look for e-reader to buy, as I am reading lots of books and don't have enough space at my home I found out about iPad. Slim looking, "magical" (according to apple shop, who the hell names they product magical?), advertised as new generations of e-readers. LCD screen? How can any device with LCD screen be called new e-reader? It is like taking step back from what technology already achieved, big step back. It cannot be a small personal computer because it is loosing with the cheapest netbook. It doesn't have any multitasking, camera? Of course not there, no flash and again limited to apple shop. Not to mention that if you want to connect anything to it, you need to take with you big bundle of cables, as it doesn't have even usb connection.

Question is, who buys this kind of products. I just cannot see any normal, intelligent person buying one and still they are selling like hot buns and it confuse me. Nobody I know is interested in it, most people are making fun of it, except people at G****** service, which act like they got a big fat cheque to advertise it on they page. This is a big unknown for me and I am scared of meeting such a person.

Talking about G. place, when I was looking for some specifications for e-readers I found they page and kind of got attached to it for a time. I was reading it few times a day, as news showed up very often. Problem is the Apple fanatics base that is the main reason why I stopped going there at all. Any comment that tries to show how Apple is squeezing money out of they users and how bad is they policy is criticise with such a hatred and anger that I feel my blood boil. It makes me wonder how this people became so brain washed that they cannot even notice how they beloved company makes a fool out of them on every step, getting them buy every year a new, better version that could be released as a first version, because there was no technology limitation. I pity people who, when you make an argument are yelling at you, when they feel like they are using argument.

Don't get me wrong, being a fan of any company is ok with me. I myself have my likes and dislikes in technology industry and I am never hiding it. I just don't tolerate fanatics, I really don't. I dislike people who try to sound like they know everything about everything, acting like a omnipotent oracle. Unfortunately the only time I was in the situation that I wanted to send a person to the "naughty spot" (like super nanny would say) was when I was talking to Apple fanatics.

Sine wave of life

My life seems to go down the slope since Saturday. Everything seems to go bad, including interview that I was waiting so eagerly for. No, it is not that it went so bad, that I want to hide under bed and cry, but mostly because of a disappointment.

I really wanted to get this job and since they called they want to meet me. Big, worldwide know company, tempting with prospects of stable job. I never saw place so depressing in my life. Office was dark with weird smell hanging around. People looked like taken from Dilbert, with no hope in they eyes. I don't know what to think about it. People who I spoke to were nice, but.... I don't see myself working there. 

Working environment are mostly people, but if you come into office and you feel surrounded by atmosphere of resignation, your spider instincts should tell you to run as fast and far as you can. I am waiting for a phone from them and preparing to say no in polite way. To be honest I so want them not to call, chose somebody else, because I really feel bad about saying no.

The only ray of light in my pit of doom and gloom is my amazing boyfriend and that he always know what to do to cheer me up. I think he is the only reason I am still believing that the light on the end of the tunnel is not a train but maybe an exit. 

In time like this I try to remember about sine wave. If it is going down so much there must be time when it will go up again. Maybe in the corner there will be the job I will love? Maybe tomorrow I will get a surprise I didn't expect or just a small good news, that will make me smile. 

I hope so, I so much hope so.

Stuck in the middle

You know how it is when you feel like you don't fit anywhere. Being a woman in my profession makes me feel like some fantasy creature, especially after I take part of IT gibberish talk. Most of my friends are IT. They are not surprised about me knowing few things here and there. Problem are the "others".

I am not ashamed of what I do and what I know, but it is hard to find a common interest with woman for me. I can talk with guys for hours, laugh and be cheeky as much as I want and I know they will not take it to them. When I try to talk to any girl I feel like I hit a wall. I don't know anything about cosmetics and I nearly don't use any. I don't follow new trends in fashion and shoe topic is just so unbelievably boring.

So many times I tried to talk to person of the same gender and make friends and I just feel like I am from different planet. When I am talking about cool special effect in Avatar and how interesting the universe looked like, I need to hear the "amazing" love story and whole description of "eko" talk and how people destroy their planet (grrrr).

I even started to wondering if maybe something is wrong with me, because I really fell weird around woman and even if my boyfriend thinks that it is just woman that I meet that are weird I still have doubts. Why it is so easy to talk to guys when talking to woman is so hard. Maybe I will finally find in sometime girl here that I could call my friend just like in my previous place of living, I keep my fingers crossed. Till then, guys good luck with girls, you will need it ;).