{"id":851,"date":"2010-04-08T17:50:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.adam-jackson.net\/?p=851"},"modified":"2010-04-08T17:50:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:50:48","slug":"the-iphone-upgrade-path-mmm-green-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2010\/04\/08\/the-iphone-upgrade-path-mmm-green-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 The iPhone Upgrade Path (mmm&#8230;green grass)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The grass is always greener. I&#8217;ve had some technology envy before. The great thing about technology envy is that it doesn&#8217;t have to exist. With money, you can be the most envied tech guy on the block. I&#8217;ve been envious of guys with natural talent (Olympians, guinness book record holders) I&#8217;ve pretty much never complained when someone had a nicer computer than me or a faster car or if Microsoft or Apple decide to change something that I don&#8217;t like because, with money, I can simply buy my way out of the situation. Trust me, technology is engineered to get us to spend money. That&#8217;s just a fact.<\/p>\n<p>When I see people complaining about technology, I can usually find a solution for them that involves them spending more money. You don&#8217;t have to go out and train for months to run a triathlon or go to school for 8 years or actually do anything. Just skip a few meals, cut back on your electricity use and take the bus to work and what you&#8217;re complaining about won&#8217;t be a problem cause you can buy your way out of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Easier said than done? Not really.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I wanted an iPad. I sold my MacBook Air. I bought an iPad.<\/li>\n<li>I wanted a pair of Shure SE530 earphones. I sold all 5 of my current headphones that were sub-par that I&#8217;d collected over the years and had enough money to now buy the $600 ones.<\/li>\n<li>I wanted a bigger monitor. I spent weeks searching Craigslist and eBay till I found a bigger one. Then I literally got a 2nd job working as a waiter for 4 weeks over the summer to save up the $800 I needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In all three situations, I never ONCE went to an online message board or comment on a blog saying, &#8220;this sucks! Dell just released a 24&#8243; update 18 months ago and now they have a new one out! Shure has the balls to charge $600 for headphones? WTF! The iPad is $499. Damn. This sucks! It&#8217;s so overpriced and the Apple tax is strong!.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No. I didn&#8217;t do that. I just spent the money. I didn&#8217;t spend an hour blaming Apple for making a phone with a glass screen. When I dropped it and I broke, I paid the full $499 price to have it replaced. That&#8217;s how this works. It costs money to have the latest and greatest stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, if I get beat at a 400m race, I have to spend weeks training and preparing to try again. I may learn that my shot legs or genetics keep me from being a good runner and then accept the fact that my body isn&#8217;t built to be a sprinter and there&#8217;s nothing I can do about it. Posting how much you hate Apple for not doing something or charging too much is just stupid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Today, Apple stated that original iPhones and iPhone 3G models (and 1st &amp; 2nd gen iPod touch devices) won&#8217;t be able to do multi-tasking in iPhone OS 4.0 that ships this summer. The reason wasn&#8217;t that Apple was greedy is simply the fact that those devices, which only have 128mbs of ram, can&#8217;t do multi-tasking effectively do to system limitations.<\/p>\n<p>Users were pissed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st Gen iPhone ship date: June 29th, 2007<\/li>\n<li>2nd Gen iPhone ship date: July 11th, 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So a device that&#8217;s 2 to 3 years old can&#8217;t run the next generation of the iPhone OS. Dang that sucks! Here are what some users are saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><cite><\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/comment\/21527845\"><\/a>My hatred for Apple only increases after seeing  this. Apple doesn&#8217;t care about the consumer, it just wants his money.  These features should have been, and most certainly could have been, in  the second generation iPhone.<\/p>\n<div>Apple had no reason to hold these features out, other than for it to get  the consumer to buy a new product just so Apple could make money.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Most users are complaining that Apple is just trying to get users to upgrade. This isn&#8217;t the case at all.<\/div>\n<div>And I can honestly say so what if Apple is screwing their users with these tactics. Let&#8217;s say the original iPhone that came out 3 years ago can do multi-tasking and shoot video and Apple is just holding it back then switch. Get another phone, another carrier and ditch Apple but I&#8217;m pretty sure that you&#8217;ll get the same BS. Every company does this. Oh and let&#8217;s not forget&#8230;.money makes this all go away. Spend money and you won&#8217;t have any problems at all. Just always buy the very best and latest Apple device with a warranty and you&#8217;ll never have any problems.<\/div>\n<div>That&#8217;s the reality. Just be thankful that you&#8217;re not in a country that makes you choose your career path at a young age or that you&#8217;re not in love with a sport that your genetics just aren&#8217;t built for or that you were born with a disease that has no cure. No. You weren&#8217;t born with any of those problems like millions of other humans are born into or with. You were born with the capability to get a job and work long hours so when your printer becomes obsolete, you can get a new one with the money you make at the job you work at.<\/div>\n<div>I honestly think we have it too easy when we can sit around all day bitching about Apple not giving us free upgrades for life when all you have to do is NOT go out drinking for a few weeks or simply fast and drop 25 pounds of fat (that you shouldn&#8217;t have anyway) and use that money to buy the latest phone. It&#8217;s not that hard. Be thankful you have that freedom in life and stop bitching about it.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The grass is always greener. I&#8217;ve had some technology envy before. 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