An Apple A Day

Introduction

This is a trawl from Seven Days In, October 2014, almost ten years ago. The video is a great dig at Apple by The Onion and should be watched as it is brilliantly comedic. The Onion can be checked out here.

The Onion is irreverent and funny but often too close to the truth to be truly comfortable. My actual post is more about the state of social media and the way corporate entities try to control us for our own benefit when mostly what is happening is that they are trying to sell us product.

I love the way that so-called simplifications often make things incredibly complex to implement them. I am finding this with a new system implementation at work.

This comes down to the advertising that tells us that we can have things "at the touch of a button". What they fail to mention are the hoops that you have to jump through in order to get to the position where you can press that button to get what it will deliver to you. You need to switch on devices, connect them up, reset passwords, go through menu after menu, and in the case of me trying to watch "Bullet Train" that I purchased a digital copy of from Amazon Prime get a notice saying "Something Went Wrong - Try Again Later", then researching the error being told to switch off my device and restart it, and going through everything again to get the same result.

So much for touching a button, to get what I want.

So here is how I was seeing things in 2014 and I still feel the same way about a lot of these issues.

An Apple A Day

Just noticed that Apple is my second most tagged item after Newcastle. While I love Newcastle, Apple I can take or leave, and in fact, some folk think I detest Apple. I actually don't, but anyone who tries to get complete control of me in any way whatsoever, I tend to give short shrift to. So that includes Google, Microsoft, Sky, BT, Virgin, Politicians, and almost everyone who wants me to follow their line.

Then I started thinking am I just whingeing on this blog? If you look at Twitter and Facebook the things that get picked up on are where people are complaining or laughing at others' misfortune, and that is no way to be, but is the way of the world unfortunately.

Social Media can be good or bad, I hate things like Fail Army, but it can mean that you can quickly encourage people and offer them support and spread the good news, which is the way I always try t do something. I always try to make my posts positive and have something good connected with it.

So I'm going to have the Onion's Apple Device review on here, which is a fun ridiculous dig at Apple.

It's the weekend and a grey day but there are lots of ways to have fun, if you can read this you're connected, and if you're connected, connect with others positively. It will make you feel better and them feel better.

If something annoys you try and deal with it, instead of moaning, bring sunshine into people's lives and they will usually return it, and you will feel good.

Right, that's enough new age do goodery for today, I'm going to take some serious drugs and continue having a brilliant weekend. YOU enjoy yourself, look in the mirror, smile, and say "I am wonderfully happy" then keep the feeling up throughout the weekend.