My own private Emocide

Now, while working at some of the places I have worked at recently, I did get to know quite a few Apple-ites. I do understand a lot of their reasoning, I do understand that Apple makes pretty gadgets and widgets, I do understand, that in a lot of ways they are more inventive and creative than Micro$haft, but I don’t quite get the part of the apple community that almost shows religious dedication to the Big Apple.
I even got myself to watch Steve Jobs’ Macworld Conference & Expo keynote in January. He announced the Macbook Air then. Woohoo! The world has not exactly stopped then. Even less I understand the whole buzz around the WWDC keynote, when — even to me, as a barely marginal apple interested geek — has already understood, that Apple would just HAVE TO announce a successor to the iPhone, especially if they wanted to stay competitive in Europe. I have to admit, the low(?) price even surprised me. Way to go Steve! But considering the amount of money Apple made with the Generation 1, including all the so-very-Microsoft-ish politics surrounding it. (In general: Can anybody explain to me, why Apple lovers shun Billy the Kid Gates for his capitalist and monopoly models so often, when Apple is not a bit better? Even more expensive in a lot of areas — and more closed and clandestine for sure? Don’t get me wrong, I would be the first one to embrace alternatives, and the last one to defend Microsoft.)
Actually, at the price of USD 199,– I might even consider getting one of these suckers. That’s just a bit more than EUR 130! But did Steve have to wrap this into a whole keynote? I would have caught the ads myself too.
Maybe it’ll finally be too cheap to still be some sort of dick enhancement for marketing folks. I do have friends — even software guys — who own one, but sorry, seeing a lot of those big talkers in the sales and management departments showing off their little toys every day, when they can’t even spell “Firefocks” just makes me want to bang my head against the screen… or theirs actually.
I do understand that to Developers — after all its the WWDC — Apple developers — this is a very exciting event. But why everybody else, who considers themselves indie in the nerd scene has to jump onto every little bit of info that Mr. Jobs drops… well… I still haven’t given up hope that someday I’ll understand.