Sunday, February 13, 2022

Apple Is A Cancer That Should Not Be Treated

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    It all goes back to the last quarter of 2016, where I broke my first ever Sony smartphone, Xperia T2 Ultra, and desperately searching for the replacement. At the time, I was somewhat clueless about technology, especially smartphone, and starting to do my own research about those things. I didn't hold a phone for about a week until finally I decided to buy Asus Zenfone 3 Max. I chose the phone because I'm always a fan of stock Android and Zenfone 3 Max suited the criteria (which what Sony also do great even until now). After using it a year more or less, I'm getting more aware about chipsets, learnt about it, and started to realize MediaTek chipset was a mess.


    I eventually bought Motorola Moto G5S Plus and immediately fell in love with it. The UI, the features, escaped from MediaTek and switched to Snapdragon which was the thing drove me more into technology, all of it. I held into Moto G5S almost 4 years, which now fell into my dad's hands, and I had a new crush, a BIG ONE, that was OnePlus. I'm getting more and more aware of the smartphone world and how it works and starting to look into this particular phone, the legendary-boxy-jam packed iPhone 4 series from Apple.


    I'm starting to do my research about Android and iOS, particularly Apple, and until now the company keeps screaming what the fucks in my ears. The high prices, the marketing scheme, the ecosystem which also known by 'the wall', and the so-called innovations. Don't get me wrong, I love the products. I love iPhone, Macbook, I'm even a big fan of iPads which until today still the best tablet you can buy. Apple Bionic chipsets also still beat the hell out of other chipsets until now. Here is where the BUTS came in.


    First of all, the removal of headphone jack in iPhone 7 (2016). It blew my mind and even all the tech world were infuriated on that front and in Apple fashion, just in case you didn't know, they did it for the waterproofing to work more effectively and correct me if I'm wrong, because they needed more space for the components inside. Well, as always, Android phones also started to do this until someday figured out to put in the headphone jack back while still maintaining a big battery also IP rating for water and dust resistance.


    Apple also known to put 'new' features in their products long after they were exist in Android phones such as 5G, higher refresh rate (granted, they were taken from iPad), and the biggest LOL I had were about widgets and App Library. What I very appreciated though, that they have to wait and perfected the features before finally being released in their products. While on the other hand, Android phones are all about innovation and coming from the science world, I'm a sucker for innovation.


    Speaking of innovation, here is my take about Apple and Android OEMs. Android phones are always up for the task in experimentation while Apple is all about consistency and that is a plus in my book. Apple products are boring, but they just simply work, while Android products often sometimes rely on the developers for their features to work, which bring us back to that open source project vs the damned Apple ecosystem.


    Then there's this whole not shipping iPhone without the charging adapter fiasco which they justified it by saying they 'care about the environment' and actually not so important the placing of the camera modules with iPhone 13 mini and vanilla iPhone 13 that looked like Apple is trying to do psychological test on all of us and they said it was because they made the module oh so slightly bigger and so couldn't place the modules vertically.


What pattern comes next?

    I'm not complaining without offering the solution, though, and people also might have heard it before. They could offer options to sell the phones and charging adapters with discounts like Xiaomi does in China, which Xiaomi even offer to ship their phone with the adapter free of charge (pun intended). On the camera front, they could make the squared module slightly bigger, which they actually did when upgraded their iPhone 12 to 13 series anyway.


(This is just me ranting, what I found funny was one of this Apple fangirl also called me out on Instagram when I mentioned the camera module thing and she told me the same thing with Apple.)


    The point is that I don't like how Apple justify things the way they did so that Android OEMs will follow these toxic manners and what I called growing tumor or cancer, which I also hate these days with the millenials and their fucking FOMO, but that is another thing for another time. That ONE thing a really, REALLY appreciate that Apple did recently was the  Self Service Repair, where they allow their customers to have access for Apple's genuine parts and tools. BIG Respect.


    Oh and I also still manage to like Apple even just a little bit when Steve Jobs (RIP) was still around. Now that he's gone, Apple just becoming more unbearable. Again, I don't hate the products, it's all about the company itself.


    However, that's not necessarily a bad thing, like all things are. This cancer called Apple should not be treated because, hey, competition is a very, very good thing and who knows, maybe someday Apple will change my thoughts around and as a self-proclaimed tech journalist, I'd love to be proven wrong, as tech enthusiasts should be.

Saturday, September 12, 2020

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 At least give me someone (and/or) something else to sad about.

Thursday, December 19, 2019

"I'm not going anywhere."

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From sixty to forty
But still the shorty
An untamed animal amongst the herd
But simply, just wanna be heard

Questioning every decision that has been made
Hanging by a thread at the tip of this blade
With no shell, a homeless crustacean
Left behind with no consolation

I figured it out already.
In the future I shall see
What will be and what is going to be
When I was stated C
Instead of the usual B

There was no end to the strife
When she's a quitter in love,
While I'm a quitter in life
At least when we're both comitting,
She's still alive.

For all the undead and the living
The biggest irony, though
With a little taste of despair

The last thing she said before leaving;
"I'm not going anywhere."

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

I'm just gonna put it right here.

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This is simply a proof that no matter what I do, it never matters. No matter if I put 0%, 50% or even 100% in my efforts that it'll never work they way I want. To simplify it: I will never be loved(1), at least, in a romantic way. I told myself,"Don't lose her" and surprise surprise: I lost her. This time, BIG TIME. Well, maybe now I just have to wait for some girl to be obsessed by me, to love me the way I am, want to do work by herself, just like I am to her. Yeah, I'm using the present tense. Big news. At least when I wrote this. But it seems unlikely, back to point (1). "You lost pieces of yourself everytime you give yourself to someone else." and I guess that what happened to me. I completely lost myself and to build from the scratch? Back to the square one? It's one hell of a task, I'm telling you. I guess in this one starting really is harder than maintaining. She's always asking to keep my positive thinking in check so here it is. That post above is a reminder for you, you useless stupid lazy fucking piece of shit. This is your past speaking, Never fall in love too hard ever again. Never put your 100% into everyone ever again.

Sunday, December 8, 2019

Earthquake

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The shakes
Keep getting stronger
Keep coming periodically
The head rushes
Strike, melodically

Having a little joy to crave
Belittle that I'm actually the one,
Who is keeping score
Have to keep reminding myself,
That you're not here anymore

Losing both the battle and the war
Back to that phase again,
Locking the front door

Hoping to not coming back again
Can I just, simply, disappear?

Monday, November 18, 2019

The Book: Part 1

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"I bought a book."
"What is it about?"
"Fantasy, drama, all that kind of stuff."
"I bought it like two to three months ago and didn't have the time to read it yet."
"Okay. Cool."
"Have fun!"
*three hours later*
"Hey."
"I'm heartbroken."
"Why is that?"
"The ending was a cliffhanger."
"What ending?"
"Ooh the book, sorry."
"Yeah."
"Buy the second part, then."
"There is no second part."
"Create your own ending, then."
"Shall we?"



Monday, October 28, 2019

Midnight Thoughts: Part 1

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Well, it's not really a part one if you count the other nights that was not written here, or even, everywhere. Because that's the thing, people only care about what is shown, what is written, what is out of surface. They don't know what's under the rock. But I understand. I'm not against them who seeks for help. In fact, I'm standing with them. Or in this case, behind them. Maybe, just maybe, we don't need help. Or more accurately, we don't want any help. It's been weeks, maybe even months, that I prepared myself to sleep early, just to find myself not being able to sleep four or five hours later. It's exhausting, It's FUCKING EXHAUSTING. I lost the love of my life. Well, for the second time this time. I thought it would be better this time, but well, it still hurts. In fact, it equally hurts, but from the different angle. On top of that, there is a chance I could lose my best friend now. That sharp thing is teasing every now and then, and so far it's doing a fantastic job at it. At this moment, with all that, if I'm allowed to wish, I'm just wishing for one tiny thing: can I just not be a burden for everyone? Is that a really hard thing to ask for?