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so earlier this year i was thinking of getting an ipod. and when i mentioned it to my friend, she exclaimed, "oh, i want one too! i want to be cute and have little white earbuds in my ears!"

all i could say was, "uhn..."

and that's when i realized that i hate apple. and in particular, i hate the ipod. and even more, i hate the ipod shuffle.

apple hasn't built its customer base on what's innovative or useful. rather, it relies on design and desire. and while i'm generally a big fan of design, you honestly need more than a pretty white surface. cuz once you boot up that minimalist mac, all you get is a non-intuitive interface with a crappy-ass mouse. plus it's all housed in a cheap-ass plastic case.

but my beef is not really with mac computers. while i don't enjoy them at all, i understand why people would gravitate towards them for design-type applications. i do not, however, understand why people choose macs "because they're pretty." you do not compute because of pretty computer cases. a sleek white exterior does not help anything in terms of writing papers or essays. shitty keyboards and mice really don't add anything to the overall package either.

mac computers, despite the fact that i clearly get my hackles in a twist about them, are not the number one item on my most hated list. the ipod is. i acknowledge that ipod has one of the better menus out there. but it's not the only option! and when i raised the possibility of buying another player with 3 times the memory, people shot it down almost immediately, based on the image alone, or more disgustingly, those fucking white earbuds.

let it be known that i would walk around without music before i would wear those shitty, tinny earbuds.

and besides those crappy earbuds, let's look at the backside of the ipod. it's mirror-like. which is nice enough for things that you don't touch. but when it's on a consumer item that you carry around with you, can you say, bad idea? just ask my friend, who bought an ipod, and within 2 days of having it, had dropped it and acquired nasty, unrepairable scratches on its back. and then within a week, she'd dropped it again and it died. so she had to spend $250 to repair it. that's ... nice. sounds like great packaging, if you ask me.

and then the ipod shuffle? what the hell is up with that. apple now sells a screen-less stick with virtually no features other than shuffle, and everyone loves it. and one of the first things they tout about it is the fact that you can wear it on an ugly-ass white lanyard around your neck? so everyone can see that you, too, belong to the apple cult? i guess apple can do no wrong, as long as they continue making small white products. sign me up.

so, the core reason that i hate apple is because of their popularity. people have embraced this decent product as if it were the second coming of the messiah because of earbuds and shiny white surfaces. and that's what i find most disgusting of all.