Rant number 261
I must confess for the start that I am a happy iPhone user. I have an iPhone 4S, from which I am practically inseparable. I wake up in the morning with the phone buzzing away on the bedside table. I then check any overnight emails on it, check Facebook & Twitter on it - and continue this pattern throughout the day.
I like my iPhone and its abilities and, as such - I've been following with moderate interest the imminent release of the iPhone 5. There were many rumours about what it was going to do - nearly all of which were better than the reality of the newest iteration. They've taken an iPhone 4s, given it some steroids - to make it more super powerful and all that, put it on a diet - to make it thinner - then made it longer.
I've got to be honest, the newest version seems rather underwhelming, bearing in mind that I had no plans to buy one at the moment anyway.
What is ridiculous however, is the fact that a queue of people is currently camped outside of an Apple store (6 days before launch) just to be the first to own the item.
If your life is so empty, that your only sense of achievement can come from being the first to own someone else's product - then you really do need to get a life - majorly.
You may think that your peers will be insanely jealous of your new product - and maybe they will be.
If they are however, they are just as fucking sad as you are.
As much as anything - if I can just throw this in there: the first versions of any pieces of technology, are a sort of beta test: making them susceptible to bugs both software and hardware based.
Seriously, waiting for a couple of weeks until the next batch comes out really would be better in pretty much any way, and the fact that you are the first to have one will be impressive for about the first week since release - if at all.
If you know anyone queueing up out there, retweet this at them. I'd be more than interested in hearing their thoughts on the matter.
Rant over.
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