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This is like a bad launch day in an MMO. No official word on why some of the iTunes Store is offline, and we’re paying for the update! Please Mr. Jobs, can I give you ten dollars to waste my morning because your engineers failed to anticipate server loads? Why did I pay so much for your device? That’s right, because things “Just work” in Apple land. Your overpriced gadgets with revolving costs are starting to really chap my hide.

The thing that annoys me is that to have the functionality of a portable computing device that also happens to play music, I’ve been forced to purchase an update for email, and now an update so I can finally get the thing on the WPA-Enterprise network. Heck, the thing still doesn’t do Flash. Sure, some may say, it’s just an iPod, buy a laptop or an iPhone. I’m tired of buying an Apple product and getting burned for not waiting another six months. It’s not that I’m expecting to get things sooner, it’s that I hate feeling like I’m being milked by Apple. “Gee, if we sell an 8 gig unit for a while, then update in a few months to a 16 we’ll make more money and who cares if our customers feel burned.” It’s the standard anymore. Heck, I can’t imagine how people who dropped coin on the Airbook with SSD feel after the big price drop there. Whose pockets got lined with that change?

More rant once I get back from work…

Update 2: Okay, so 12 hours have passed, and nothing changed. No email from Apple, except the one telling me they’d deleted my post from the discussion thread (I’ll show you non-constructive). No official statement on the apple.com website, nor even a removal of the “Buy” button. Fuck you Apple. I wanted to like but you’ve obviously shown us all that you’re way too cool to even come out of the Cupertino bunker and say “We fucked up, here’s 10$ in free software. Our bad.”

Update: Start-up cost for an 8 gig iPhone 407$

Update: iPhone 3G plastic casings are cracking left and right.

You know, it’s time to admit I was wrong. Way, way back, before being hacked, before moving over to wordpress, back when stickybuffalo was a big brown page with a shoutbox, there was some discussion of Apple’s switch from PowerPC processors to Intel processors. As I recall, I was pretty much against the move, seeing it as a bad omen for Apple’s independence. But I was wrong.

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as nice as it is to see paulie again, i have to question the public relations wisdom at denny’s. someone there evidently thought it would improve the restaurant’s image to promote the idea that they’ve hired a fictional TV sociopath to muscle the competition.