The iPhenomenon

The latest Apple ‘i’ rage began quite a few years back now, when Apple first knocked Sony off their perch as No.1 in personal media players – and hey, I’ve still got a perfectly good Sony Walkman from 1999 -

But this turf now belongs very solidly to Apple. Sony should’ve created the iPod, and not somebody else, especially not a computer company. How Sony missed this golden opportunity, after having pioneered portable music devices early in the late 1970s, is a genuine mystery that is now the subject of a new book: MediaPost Publications

I personally believe Apple learnt a valuable, albeit very expensive lesson with it’s failure to match Microsoft’s aggressive marketing campaign when PCs first appeared. Apple is a superior operating system to Windows, but most people would never know; simply because their first introduction to computers was via the Windows Platform, and now they just don’t want to change.

Of course since the iPod, there has been a steady progression of Apple products which one-by-one has been decimating the opposition. Nokia was once king of mobile phones – not any more. Apple once again introduced an innovation with their touch-screen iPhone; and Nokia was caught well and truly with their pants down.

Most people are I think, starting to tire just a little bit of this ever-accelerating race in digital technology. Buy the latest digital gadget today, and within 6 months flat, it’s already been replaced with a better version. Most intelligent folks do realize that a lot of this is purposely orchestrated by large companies, to ‘milk’ the consumer to the greatest extent possible. Not surprising, we are starting to see some cynicism appearing with Apple’s latest portable computer offering – the iPad.

Comments that have been appearing recently on Twitter:

@BruinGirl2001: Will the next version of the #ipad come w/wings?

@bbrikend: use your ipad, or #itampon when you have your #iperiod, girls

And this! @Neila222: If only the #iTampon had a vibrate feature like the iPhone.

What’s all this got to do with bidets anyway?

This?

No not really – this is just one more Apple caricature from a T Shirt I picked up on our last trip to Bangkok!

But this: ‘Silo Mentality’

According to Wikipedia: An ‘information silo’ is a management system incapable of reciprocal operation with other, related management systems. – - – Derived variants are “silo thinking”, “silo vision”, and “silo mentality” (Sony didn’t think digital media could easily replace their existing analogue technology). Whilst Apple have certainly got a very good handle on this, many people (the same as Sony) refuse to ‘think outside the square’ when it comes to their toilet habits. From the very first day they learned to: ‘clean by themselves’ – until the very day they die, a vast majority of Australians still steadfastly refuse to consider any better alternatives.

The widespread acceptance of bidets has been very much restricted in Western societies by this ‘silo mentality’. Thankfully, with the recent incredible rise in social networking sites like Facebook, the way we relate to each other is now changing for ever – and may I say, mostly for the better.

Ignorance is not necessarily bliss!

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Till next time – - -

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