14 DAY TRIAL // Check this! Apple goes and launches new iPod touch and iPhone models, doubling their storage capacity to 32Gb and 16Gb respectively, right? So naturally, as a normal human being, your thoughts are: "Wow, that's great! Double the storage capacity for two great devices!" The reality, however, is bleak. Not for Apple, but for the consumer. Apple made no announcement whatsoever that the updated devices were coming, while people are still expecting the company to throw in a 3G iPhone...
...and certainly not one that sports 16 gigs of memory to store pictures and tunes on. For crying out loud, Apple's phone is one step away from becoming self aware and cook your dinner at the rate it's getting updated, yet 3G is something it just can't handle. Why is that? You know what, it doesn't even matter anymore, because people are so very upset with Apple's move. Care for a sample of 'upsetness'? Very well.
According to informationweek.com, "the positive and negative backlash" following the news in question "was almost instantaneous." The publication also offers proof as to how angry readers were hearing that, instead of hooking up iPhones with 3G, Apple had merely increased its storage capacity, also upping its price by a hundred dollars in the process.
"Apple thinks we are all sheep," says the upset reader. "After spending 400-1200 bucks for an iPhone, iPod, iBook, or whatever Apple makes, a few months later they come out with a different color, more memory or storage or make it a little more pretty and all of us run and get the new stuff....
I guess [what] I am tying to say is bah bah bah bah...baaahhh..bah bah bah bah bah.
Now where is my Credit Card, Steve Jobs called."
Not exactly the most relevant comment one could post, but it (literally) screams loud and clear: Apple, you pulled the fast one on us!
Now where's my credit card? No reason in particular, I just can't spot it anywhere.