Why does something shiny seem to bring out the sheep?
You know what I want to know really….what happened to the computer hackers, like the white hat freaks in the garage or at workbenches making stuff doing wacky tasks? Where are the people that just want to do something for doing sake?
I don’t know if it is an age thing, something with society or what, but it seems as time is moving on, there are less people wanting to break and remake things. I pick on the iPhone as it is one of the most popular things at the moment that is perfect to explain this. I understand people wanting technology to just work and I understand that some do not want to hassle with things. But to mindlessly drone forward about things seems a bit dumb too. I know there are groups out there that have jailbreak’ed the iPhone, but in the end, that is quasi-legal/illegal. Why? Why are we so willing to be told how to use a piece of tech? Why are we ok with the idea of Apple choosing what apps and functions the iPhone can do? I understand that is just how Apple is, but why are we taking it so easily? Why are we sheep simply obeying?
I have never liked this attitude. I have sucked it up for 10 years now as it is really SOP of mobile phone companies. If you didn’t know SOP is Standard Operating Procedure and if you didn’t, you have been a very lucky soul never to work in the likes of Best Buy or similar. This SOP shit has been the main reason that I see my cell phone as just a phone, nothing else. I cannot allow it to contain data or processes that I may truly depend on one day. As I may need that data for something the mobile companies do not “allow.” But now, I am wanting a smart phone of some sort and you know what, that iPhone sure is purdy. But do I really want to have to play by more and more rules? Seeing how Apple seems to be pulling apps or denying apps on what feels to be whims. Why are accepting to be locked into only one carrier to only have one bit of tech? When coverage sucks for some carriers, I should give up coverage for that bit of Shiny?
It seems that I am down to one choice in the land of phones, some sort of Blackberry, as it seems to be the most open of the lot with decent coverage but that isn’t saying much in the end. Still, Blackberry is in the traps of only certain hardware on certain carriers.
Dammit it all, people give me a piece of tech that I can move around with and carriers make it worth while to me to be with you for allowing different tech on your system but giving me coverage. Coverage to me is the key to the worth of a carrier.
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