This has become the case concerning Apple's recent announcements.
Announcements, Slade? Plural?
Oh yes, my dear reader, because what so many people have thrown under the bus is the beauty of the con itself.
Apple recently announced two (yes, two) new electronic devices. The iPhone which will have Cingular/AT&T as it's mobile provider (and the only one for the foreseeable future) and iTV.
iTV? Ce qui est ceci iTV?
Forgot about that little snippet, didn't ya? Or, could it be, it wasn't that important?
I beg to differ, my friends. I beg to differ. The truly big deal out of all of this is iTV. The iPhone, while it sounds awesome, is the proverbial trojan horse.
Steve Jobs is a brilliant motherfucker. I don't throw out the word "brilliant" lightly. I love this guy; he's a hustler. He stays on his grind. And he loves to mess with the rest of the electronics society. And the general public, let's not forget that.
Here's the facts concerning iPhone: it won't be released until June or July. They have a name battle with Cisco. And the world has gone absolutely ape-shit over this new awesome cellular phone. Oh, praise almighty Apple.
Yeah, right.
Few other tidbits. Okay, I concede - it's one cool ass looking phone. The entire thing a freakin' touchscreen. 8 gigs. Oh hell - here's the little bastard in full glory...
okay, here's another one...
Got to say, Apple don't go half-ass, do they? But, still - the nature of the scam is to have you look left when the real business is right...
iTV. Yep, I said it again.
iTV is simply a glorified router but oh what a little powerful router it is. How many remember "The Rabbit"? The Rabbit let you watch on one tv what was being played on another. Then came TiVo and DVR's and you thought that's all there would be?
Oh no, friend.
iTV basically hooks your iTunes downloads to your widescreen/HD TV. It turns your TV into one huge home based iPod. Now remember, you can download television shows and movies onto your iPod now. For example, lets say you don't have time to buy Pirates Of The Carribean II DVD and you also can't watch say, Grey's Anatomy but you download the entire season from iTunes (btw - much cheaper than buying the season on DVD). Now, you hate trying to watch this stuff on your iPod. You get iTV, hook it up and watch at your leisure. On your TV. And listen to your music and check your photos, etc.
On your tv.
Now the link with all of this is the dreaded proggy, iTunes. Well, of all companies, the monolith named Microsoft has the answers to your problem, and it's name is Vista.
You think that it's a coincidence that iTV will be released early Feburary and Vista comes out late January? Are you kidding me? No, grasshopper it's not. You see, Vista is more linux based than Gates & Company would like to admit and remember that Macintosh is a basically a linux based operating system. Now, iTunes is still essentially a Mac based program that has been re-worked to work for Windows. But, if Vista is more linux based and not DOS based...see where I'm going here?
Basically, once you get Vista (and probably a new PC but with the deals these idiots are coming with - that's not a bad idea) problem solved. If you want a more immediate solution - get XP Pro with SP2 and make sure you have at least 3-5gigs space on your PC. That should solve your problems with iTunes on a PC for the most part. Yeah, it bugs me too sometimes, you're not alone.
Still - iTV is the one to watch (pun intended) while iPhone is the smokescreen and when the smoke clears... whoo boy.
That Steve Jobs...when I grow up, I wanna be just like him.
