Now I am aware that talking about this particular Apple product may involve a couple of possible responses. 'Yesterday's news,', 'A poor man's iPhone,' and such like, but I don't care. Since I was given this as a present for Christmas I've hardly been able to keep my fingertips off it. I actually love inputting my 'To Do' Application, even if I have tons of assignments, unfinished novels to complete, music projects, mostly because I've been wasting time inputting and playing with my Apps or, to be honest, just masturbating. iPod boasted that you could fit your entire record collection in your pocket. Well, eventually, try fitting your library, your DVD's, photo albums, your documents and paperwork, your desktop and laptops in your pocket.
Yes, I know, unless you have wi-fi connection it's pretty redundant. Yes, I'm aware that there are those of you so technologically adavanced that you could point me to less pretty but cheaper, more functional and practical alternatives. And if I'm able, and I'm sure someone could tell me how, to create, edit and transfer documents to and from my computer, then I might even laugh. My favourite 'Apps' are 'Bloom' and the social networking platforms that allow me the empty illusion of being popular. I have a couple of music themes apps, a Mr T one that wears thin the more you hear it and some useful but slightly pointless foreign laguage phrase books, the hope being that one day I might actually be partially multilingual. But most of the time I can't get wi-fi because I don't have wi-fi at home, so I tend to use it at work, instead of doing work. It would have been fun to write this up on my iPod touch but I'm at home and I don't have wi-fi at home. I could of course try and 'piggy back' on someone else's unsecured wi-fi connection but the iPod touch isn't terribly powerful and anyway, most people are quite secure these days on wi-fi. So I suppose the answer is to get an iPhone but it's too expensive for me. And for that price I'd want a laptop in my pocket. Maybe someone will eventually come along and explain it all for me, that there's all kinds of sensible ways around my issues with this product but I'm not holding my breath.
I do hope my evaluation doesn't come across as smug faced. It isn't my intention. What's closer to the truth is that I'm writing this on a Friday night when I could and should be doing something more interesting. I can't be bothered with the Comic Relief thing, not because I'm a malcontent or something, not because I'm a skinflint, a misanthrope (even though I'm actually in the red) but because it's not partcularly funny (and I don't mean those rather sappy, slightly condescending films featuring celebrties and African kids, showing how caring and normal they are, the tone being 'Come on, you've had a laugh, let's be serious and sensible for a minute...try and reflect, then we'll give you some more cheap, oh so cheap, laughs.')
