Steve Jobs Hijacked My House

The people at Apple know what they are doing when they suck you in to buy their products. It starts from their cutsie little advertisements.. “Hi. I’m a mac, and I’m a PC,” to their adicting jingles, to their use of the lowercase i in front of everything. I’m sure you can name a few. iPod, iMovie, iMac, iDVD, iLife... They are no different than the big cigarette companies or your local drug dealers. They start you off small and work you till you can’t get enough. It started innocently enough. Nicole called me exasperatingly, with the dreaded words no “techie” wants to hear “Our computer doesn’t work.” My usual replies of “Well, did you try this” or “Are you sure you did that?” got knocked down each time. Frustrated at not being able to help her, and mildly annoyed that I couldn’t fix what I thought was a minor problem over the phone, I hung up the phone dejected. The next morning I tore apart the box and found 1 thing after another broken, or on the verge of breaking. The dollar signs began floating through my head, right next to the annoying jingle that sounded out “Upgrade Time.” And then, like a voice from above, that silly Apple commercial popped on TV.

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Tags: Apple, Mac, Tech