Because Apple’s products are
absolutely easier for customers to use, do they foster the inactivity in
technology?
Recently, when installing a new Gmail
application on my 3 year-old MacBook, I took a glance at the guy next to me in
the coffee shop. He worked so hard on his Pro one, a high-end model, much later
than mine. I made a guess that he is a technology expert who is paid quite a
handsome salary until I casted an eye on his Dock. Finder, Launchpad, Mission
Control, iChat, iPhoto, GarageBand, iMovie and Photo Booth. All of them are
totally like the very first time you open your computer you know, before you
customize Dock options to remove all unnecessary apps and add your usually used
apps.
When I twitted it angrily, my online
friends required a citizen’s arrest because of technology. Why is it not
compulsory to exchange, because he was obviously not suitable with this
fabulous Mac? But I have to admit that I have lost. Nowadays, more and more Mac
users are complacent technology consumers, rather than innovative technology
creators.
Creators vs. receivers
Not as creators, the receivers do whatever
they are told. They let Mac in its default configuration. They buy every system
updates which people in Genius Bar recommend. Being overwhelmed by the
complication of other options, they withdraw into the App Store, where all
options are already made for them.
But there will be moments needed the
decision of the Mac users among these complicated options; using Mac requires
you to take the control of your own computer. My enthusiasm towards Apple, in
combination with some activity limitation (lived in Canada, worked in a Windows
office, limited budget) encouraged me to deal with any kind of crazy projects:
unlocked iPhone in the US before they were on sales officially in Canada;
hacked an PC netbook because I couldn’t afford the MacBook Air; etc…
They
buy every system updates which people in Genius Bar recommend…
Thanks to these time consuming and tiring
experiments, they turned me into a Mac expert or more exactly, became a
technology expert. Moreover, the enthusiasm which encouraged me to hack Mac and
iPhone also make me more confident in testing new softwares, new tools as well
as new services and more important is my refusal towards anything that doesn’t
work for me.
Is simple better?
For the time being, it is not so difficult
to become a Mac user like ever before. iPod, iPhone as well as iPad are far
more easy to use, due to the fact that there are many iOS apps has Mac copies
(not necessary is Windows). The appearance of iCloud makes the totally Mac life
become the easiest option for the iPad or iPhone users who just want everything
run smoothly.
Nevertheless, you still need to make a
decision on some options if it is either about the hardwares or the softwares
you allow, networks you connect, online services you use and information you
share. Some of the new Apple users are badly equipped with these choices. They
are definitely spoilt by independent and easy controlled experience of Apple’s
devices; as a result, they are not able to figure out how to make their own
rules.
However, finding out your own path is
dramatically essential, unless you want somebody else in the IT department or
at App Store make a decision on what mobile phone model you will use or
software tools are about to be installed (or prohibited) on your Mac.
The
appearance of iCloud makes the totally Mac life become the easiest option for
the iPad or iPhone users who just want everything run smoothly
Last but not least, you have to make a
choice on what you won’t do; which emails you won’t reply; which social network
you won’t use; and which software updates you will skip because everything is
definitely good up to your expectation. The inactivity in technology can make
you work exhaustedly and spend too much owing to the fact that it gets you out of
date and feel being left behind.
The success of Apple in offering an amazing
user experience may support the inactivity become a new standard. Due to the
huge improvements in its product lines, ability and usefulness of Apple’s
products and services, even a person who fell in love with many devices like me
can be lulled into accepting a locked iPhone, the simplicity of iCloud or
easiness of MacBook Air.
Nevertheless, I am not willing to be
controlled by Tim Cook. As a result, I will continue my own one of a kind
system stuck with each other by an app system based on cloud, free of charge
along with the jailbreak in order to disable warranty makes every individual
device work as what I want. They have turned my Mac – my old and refurbished
MacBook Pro is mine.
This is definitely the power and enjoyment
which Mac users can take it back. From now on, you had better start to
customize Dock.
