Apple selling out too soon?
As if
there’s a “too soon” for that, I guess. I mean,
the goal should be to never let that happen,
right?
When their Tiger OS came
out, one of the features it held was built-in
support for RSS feeds in Safari. And by default,
one of the RSS feeds was Apple Hot News. When
this first debuted, it featured a lot of helpful
hints, weekly tips and tricks, and other
information to keep you up to speed on what was
new in the Apple realm. And way back then, if you
had iTunes going for you, once a week you got an
email notifying you of their weekly free track.
Wow, that’s awesome, right?
Except that somewhere along the way, those emails
stopped. And what’s more, somewhere along the same
way, that RSS feed went from being full of useful,
helpful information for mac owners, to basically just
being a collection of Press Releases,
touting how awesome Apple is, and why you should
go and buy everything they’ve ever made.
Where before they’d show you how to make use of
things like Spotlight, now we get to hear about
how awesome to use the AppleTV
is, and
how we should totally buy one. Before you’d get a
tale of how certain businesses put Apple products
to work for them, now it’s all about how you
should just buy the
very next consumer device they unveil
the
product they just released so that you can buy the
upgraded version as soon as that comes out, too.
I know they’re a business and they have things to
sell, but at what cost? It seems to me they’re
starting to more quickly erode the karma they have,
that idea that Apple is more than a for-profit
company, but a company with a mission and a vision,
that being to provide efficient, intelligent
computing devices that we don’t have to be sold on,
we just desire as they are. I’ve been rooting for
them. Now I wonder if I’ll just have to accept them.
As in, they’re there, they make computers, and I use
them. Ho-hum, now go away. They used to have helpful,
informative RSS feeds, now you can’t tell the
difference from their Apple Hot News feed from their
Press Release feed which is just a crying shame.
Maybe I just can’t find the old one, you say? Nope. I
tried to look up all of Apple’s RSS feeds.
That’s all there is, folks.
Yeppers, Apple may have begun the process of selling
themselves out. That sucks. Maybe I’ll get a
Zune now
instead of
that iPod. HAHA, OK
I’m not suicidal or anything, so yeah never mind
that!
Peace.