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Thanks!

Ryan

iFrustrated

Today is the first day of the WWDC in San Francisco. It starts in a few hours but there have been weeks of buzz about it. I bought an iPhone two weeks ago. I asked AT&T and Best Buy, "I heard that there is a new iPhone coming out this summer. 32gb?" Both assured me, there is not a new phone coming out, just the 3.0 upgrade. Now I am sure the new phone is coming out, probably announced today. That pisses me off. I have never had any luck whatsoever with Apple's customer service. I have had 2 iPods that the hard drives failed. Both a month out of warranty. At the Apple store, they looked at me with pitty and kept reminding me I should have gotten the extended plan. Or, as I took it, "we don't care about you chump! We make millions off of plenty of people, why should we give a crap what you think. We're Apple, you ain't sh*t." The lady next to me had a MacBook that went out of warranty the next day, when she heard my ranting she asked if she would have had to buy a new laptop if she had been a day late and the "genius" said, "Yup."

This brings me to my latest fear. "Hey, I was told there wouldn't be a new iPhone, and there is. I don't want this one, I want the new one." I have gone over some strategies in my head. I take the iphone back within 30 days, tell them I don't like it, wait for the new one and get it then. Sell my iPhone on craigslist, then use the money to buy the new one when it is released. I would probably die of a heart attack if I went to Best Buy and said the above quote and they said, "Here. Take the new iPhone. I would be frustrated too if I were you. We aim to exceed your expectations of customer service and so does Apple. Enjoy." Imagine???

I guess I'm like an addict. I have never felt "love" from Apple. I don't think they care about their consumers, yet I continue to use mac exclusively. I gues it is a love/hate thing. I'm the dork who has an Apple OSX keychain. Yes, I should have researched it a little more on the internet, but even a few weeks ago the concensus seemed to be that a new iPhone wasn't coming. I just wish for once Apple would do right by me and show me a little "love" for the 3 iPods that I have owned, the MacBook Pro, the iMac, the iPhone and the thousands I have spent on apps and iTunes. Oh yeah, and the keychain. I have read about a few people in my situation and I look forward to reading how badly it hurt when they got screwed. Yeah, not even a kiss. If a new iPhone comes out of WWDC this week, you'll see me wincing as I walk from the pain. Knowing me though, I'll still answer my iPhone and use my iPod as I mow the lawn, all the while cursing Apple for laughing at me behind my back. I know they are.

WTF will happen to words?

Good morning. I haven't posted in a while, I figured my two posts might saturate the internet and cause all kinds of turmoil so I took a break.

I love technology and social media. I love my iPhone, I love my MacBook Pro, and I love learning about the new tech stuff daily. I can't help but notice the trends to make everything shorter. This is not a new concept, but I wonder how far it goes. Now we shorten a URL to a few random characters, we say (or type) complete sentences with very few actual words and we have become impatient with email (it is archaic and takes too long.)

Believe me, I am guilty as well. I have never typed LMAO (excepting just now) but I do enjoy the rapid fire options available in communicating today. I know there is value in saving time, but as Dane Cook notes, "In the future the DMV will still take like 9 f'n seconds." Everything is abbreviated, so much so that there are online dictionaries of sorts to help you understand how some abbreviations can mean several things, depending on context. Will novels become pamphlets in the future? Will we actually verbally communicate in an abbreviated form?

Will Websters dictionary become a book of abbreviations? I get concerned when I hear younger people talk to each other in such broken or incorrect English. I also read blogs with so many typos. I mean, people who make a living typing blogs. Today I saw that a major blogger had "payed" big money for something. I can't wait for the millions who read this blog (okay, the three of you) to point out my mistakes. I don't get paid to do this, in fact, I'm hoping someone will pay me not to do this.

I don't have the answer. At this point I have already forgotten the question. See? It all happens so fast. What do you think. Should we pay people to write opinions if they can't spell? The opinion still gets through, but does the acceptance of sub par English and bad grammar become accepted too? Do we perpetuate shrinking the vocabulary world wide? In the future will reading Shakespeare be considered reading a foreign language? I pray thee, whilst thou wax poetic? BRB!