Chaudywogbaaga

I've been thinking about getting an iPhone. I'm writing this on my iPod Touch right now. I like my Touch and I've been debating getting a iPad with 3G but I use my Touch for listening to music while working. My Touch is dying after a year of near constant use so it could stand to be replaced. An iPad would be less than ideal for that.

I figured an iPhone would be a better fit but just now I remembered the trouble I had getting pictures and music off my Touch when my hard drive died.

That's making me rethink this. Without an open file arcitecture on the iPhone I'll be looking into the Android phones. I like Apple for it's innovation but it's playing it's cards so close to the chest that it's missing important plays. I looked at the thousands of pictures on my Touch of my kids, of projects I've done, vacations we've gone on and tried to get them off but couldn't find a good way to do it. I did find a way to use two different programs to save all my music.

To this day I still have most of those pictures on my Touch. My question to Apple is why won't you let me share those between computers openly? I can understand locking down the music. That's a copyright issue, I'd like to be able to copy music but I can understand. Why are the pictures locked down in the same way? Why can't I go to my fathers house and share my Touch's photo library by copying it to his computer? The same things that limit me in doing that prevent me from getting my pictures back onto my hard drive.

In my last post about Apple I was sympathetic to their efforts to redefine how we look at computing on a mobile platform. After remembering the pain that I felt to know that my data was right there but there was no practical way to use it the way I wanted to, my mind has changed again.

A government can regulate it's people to the point where they are not free just by trying to protect them from themselves. Apple is doing the same thing. It's regulation of it's products make it's users slaves to the platform. It's a nice safe place. You'll be well taken care of but you can't do whatever you want. You can only do "approved" activities.

I don't need my devices telling me how to live. I want to tell them how to fit my life.