Charles on… anything that comes along

OK, I’d been seeing the links all over the place, but it’s only when you take the trip over and read The Apple Product Cycle that you begin to laugh. And laugh. Marvellous piece of satire about what happens whenever Apple even farts in a gadget-y way. I particularly liked, umm, all of it; but let’s not go without including

“Taken completely by surprise at the success of Apple’s new gadget, executives from Dell or Sony or Microsoft appear on CNBC and offer vague suggestions that they are beginning development of a new product to compete with Apple. In its next issue, PC Week magazine publishes an article declaring that Apple’s dominance of the [insert gadget here] space is in jeopardy.
“Weeks before most users are able to hold Apple’s new gadget in their hands, “What features would you like in the next version?” discussions take place on Mac mailing lists. Mac-heads cook up droves of far-fetched, often bizarre ideas. A cursory reading makes it readily apparent why Apple executives pay no attention to their fanatical customers.” [Yup, certainly seen the latter occur all the time - CA.]

And one shouldn’t ignore the author’s self-description:
The author has been a Mac user since 1984… He currently uses a Dual 2.0GHz PowerMac G5 and a 12″ PowerBook G4. In spite of his loyalty to the platform, he finds most “Mac people” to be tiresome and annoying. He is pretty sure that if he had to attend WWDC or Macworld, he would wind up slapping the shit out of a bunch of people.

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