A Psalm of Thanksgiving

Praise The LORD, O my soul, for His greatness and kindness demands love returned! For The LORD has brought me from the depths of my sin; He has taken me upon his wings. I cried for help when surrounded by darkness and despair; I said “LORD, where are you?” The people of earth came at me with temptations of flesh and lust like wolves to a wounded lamb! But the LORD removed them from my sight and placed me in His arms; I am found in a sanctuary of grace. I will thank The LORD for what He has done for me! Praise The LORD, for He is gracious; He is bigger than any foe. Praise God!

Attention: I have a problem.

Upon reading Gizmodo's liveblog concerning today's announcement of iPhone OS 4.0, I now hold mixed feelings for Apple as a company. I admit fully to loving my iPhone as a product. However, the culture that is surrounding Apple and its users is growing to the adult form of an angry mob of condescending think-they-know-it-all's.

There are three main issues that I have with Jobs' statements.

1. When questioned about java and/or flash support on the 4.0 OS support, the rep passed off the question as inquiry of something silly and unimportant. This shows that Apple, while apparently very good at the 'big picture' side of things, doesn't really hear or care for the cries of the internet.

2. Jobs basically calls the users idiots. Or at least, this is what will be understood by any self-respecting technologically tech savvy user. (I'd like to also point out that the first sentence in the statement is nonsensical.)

If you want to kill an app…you don’t have to. We architected something so the user doesn’t have to be the custodian of applications. We’ll give the apps in the foreground as needed. The user doesn’t have to worry about that at all. The user just uses things.

So let me get this straight, because the users are all little crybabies that don't want to worry about a thing, you are going to restrict the owner of the piece of equipment, blanket-stating that it's 'none of their concern?' Bull crap.

3. In the interview when asked about widgets on the iPad, the following statement is issued.

Q: Why have you veered away from widgets on the iPad?
A: We just shipped it on Saturday. And then we rested on Sunday.

Ok, way to compare your toy to GOD AND HIS CREATION. Smooth move, Jobs.