Seen this all before...but that was yesterday....

We can all almost remememeber the First time we set our greedy little eyes on our First Compact Disc (from here on .. "CD")...

The feeling that knowing You were holding the Future in your hand...

Small yet powerful under All that fancy larger packaging....

That amazing "Clear" audio that you never heard before...

The New Shiny player that you had to Buy in order to play this "CD"... we all accepted it... we all embraced it...

But no one Took the time to Ask "what the Hell is this ?"

Sound Familiar ? it should ..

we only Get fed this same Scenario year after year.. and we never stop to ask...

"What the hell is this?"

How cares as long as we are happy with our investment right?

I mean after all thats what it really is ... An investment... an investment into "THE FUTURE!" (cue George Carlin Scary voice)

And So We did ... For the next 10 generations of "Future Investments"






(Pay attention here now ... Cause this is where he (myself) makes the "point")

This was The Worst mistake that Could have ever been made in the history of The "Entertainment" industry (And I use that Term VERY blah-ly).

We open a flood Gate that created the River we are drowning in today.

By not asking... We were never Told .. and There for .. we Had no idea..




We were "impressed" Once and Then Became a money Factory for the big companies that We know today as The giants We have made them.

You would think that in return We would be Treated as Something more then just a "$$$"?

After all This World Is Filled with Living Beings that From what I Have Heard...

Actually Have feelings and shit...
(Sarcasm for the net blind)

The concept of "Customer Support" is Almost as Rare as "getting your moneys worth" in these days and ages.







We have Carried over our popularity Contest into the World Of Electronic Gadgets...and Who is to blame For this ?

No one Really.. Cause there is no point in placing blame when you Can always fix what has been "broken"

The 90's showed us That we could pick From the Available BAZZILION models of computers.. And All would come with something more fancy then the Next..

and there is always that model That you would trade your mom in for but will never be able to afford .. and Each one ..

came FULLY loaded With more garbage trials That would do nothing more then just Slow down your already "under powered" Computer..

While at the same time You would see models that were not even "33mhz" in difference..

and were Priced about 200 dollars more...

(now For that last part in human english...You paid more for nothing really that could be done with a few settings.)

This trend would follow trade with pretty much all the different models and versions of such things as ...

Ipods...laptops...webcams...dvd players...and the list could go on and on.



While we paid top dollar for these electronics.

The production cost would Make you Do back flips like a Dog in heat in the summer night Streets (pretty sexy of me huh?).

but its ok .. we Got what we wanted .. and wow did we ever have a great time ..

With our Clear movies ... our portable music ... our laptops ...

until you fast Foward a year or so later.. and these amazing god like machines are failing left and right ...

how can this be ... Grandma's tv that she got off the titanic before it sank still Works Fine in the kitchen...

but My shinny like my hiknee (SP?) brand new portable mp3 player powered laptop with A billion watts of fluxcompassion stopped working only a year after I bought it ?

Why must something that costs (launch prices) over 400 dollars have to be replaced a few times before you get a "working" one..?

(no worries william.. I wont call you out on this just yet.. ugh...x....360.....rrod....)

The answer is very simple when you look at it ..

Cause we are in the BETA GENERATION...

A Time Where We are the tester for ideas that these companies have In the Race To out due the next..

To them it becomes a world created around the fact that We will be impressed Enough to "invest into the Future".





They Rush there products out with out the same "Field testing research" that we once had before we failed to ask

"What the hell is this?"

And When they fail us.. The Fine print allows them to Take us on a magic egg hunt to Get our moneys worth or Get our money back.

With Return policies becoming more and more like a movie contract. I would not be shocked to Find out that when the next iphone comes out ..

I will need my lawyer present to complete the purchase.. and I could see that being common placed in an apple store setting



My iPad Gets here Saturday .. And the First thing I will ask myself when I open it will be ..

"What the Hell is this?"


(by the Way I want to say I really think steven did an amazing job on this)

This is the internet. Stay as long as you want.