Well its finally happened.

The last nail was hammered into the coffin and the cadaver rests forever undisturbed inside.

Ok, its a little dramatic, I grant you that but when you are wronged repeatedly you have to say enough is finally enough.

A shop sells you crap, you stop buying. Your train company delays you, you fly or take the bus, Your partner cheats, you leave them.

Apple, take this as notice, the love affair is over, pack your bags and leave.

I grew up with Microsoft, each new release was more and more exciting, new features, new ideas, pushing the bounds of technology, moving forward and finding new ways of being more productive and interesting and exciting.

Then they discovered there was money in support. And it began. Usability was replaced with un-usability beacuse it required support, support of Microsoft trained (at cost) system engineers. The more difficult they made it, the more money they made. We were sitting ducks and they took those easy shots.

And for me, enough was enough. I moved to mac.

Now I love the mac platform, it is truly wonderful and my time with it has been a joy.

Things work. Sorry but thats it, boring, short but brilliantly true, things W.O.R.K. where they don’t with Windows, no re-installs, no searching technet for explanations for todays obscure failure. Imagine my joy!

Years of joy, years of fun and usability and get the pictue?

Now I have been shafted once, bought a new ipod cos I didnt want an iPhone, didnt NEED an iPhone.

And now I have to pay, pay because I have NO OTHER CHOICE than to pay if I want to move forward, pay because I am being held to ransom. So yes, I gave in and paid.

Now Apple are to release another new update, just a matter of weeks after the last, not months more like weeks. And they want me to pay again. Not the iPhone users, not those supreme beings, no they get if free but us the lowly iPod user must AGAIN pay.

Well, no, sorry, not again, no longer will I just take this.

So it stops.

The apple TV is definately in the bin,

The new mac, postponed.

The change to something else, probably linux accelerated.

I have had enough.

I want to be free of one person, one entity choosing my destiny and then screwing me for my loyalty to them.

You know I feel better for venting this, i’m such an apple whore i’ll probably forgive them tomorrow, god its like sleeping with the company LOL

I said the word Whore!, naughty me! hence the [NSFW] tag. Let me know if that is me being too strict

And while we are on the subject, who the heck read this blog?

Go on email me people! Let me know there is someone, out there in the ether, otherwise I am having Yvette from Most Haunted excercise your spirit LOL, anyone else into Most Haunted? Love it!

Until next time, thanks, and guys email me!

There is a growing voice asking Apple to give everyone with an iPod Touch the recent app upgrade for free.

In a previous post I stated how angry I was that while still within the first month of ownership I was being charge a fee that people that potentially had purchased a few days after me were not having to pay.

I would ask everyone to sign the petition, as I write this it stands at over 17,000 signatures, thats almost $9 Million worth of iPod sales!

Sign the petition to ask Apple to give us free iPod Touch Apps.

When a $20 charge cost Apple Inc $768!

I bought my iPod Touch before right before Christmas.

As you saw, I was all excited by my purchase and yes I still do love it.

But today I was totally shafted again by Apple and I have to speak out and say I am not happy.

Steve Jobs has said today that iPhone users will get the latest update for free while iPod Touch users will need to pay $20, which translates to £12.99 ($25) in the UK.

Now I have had my product less than a month should I not get this upgrade free of charge? If I had purchased it 6 months ago fair enough but less than 30 days?

I am not about to start paying to fix software faults made by apple or add features that they forgot first time around or willingly held back.

At present there are a number of things I cannot do that a standard iPod can and should do, no lyrics/shownotes, no scrolling tracknames so I cannot see the names or podcast show names. These things are basic to the iPod and should be fixed, I should not have to pay for those fixes, you should have got them right first time around. I do not wish to pay for your incompetence. If I did I would currently be using a Zune.

If you want to hold back movie rentals, a major feature upgrade, then fine, fine for people that have owned them for more than 30 days, fine I can accept that but if I had bought it yesterday is it fair I have to pay more today to get those features, no I do not feel so.

So Apple I now with-hold my planned purchases which would have totalled £363 or $768 until you change your mind. This is how I make myself heard.