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Dear Steve,

Back in 1976 when you took your first step along the road of seemingly ever continuing success, did you at any time stop and think to yourself is it right to do this? Are people ready for what I have to offer? Did you pause to contemplate the ramifications of your actions? Did you ever in your wildest dreams imagine the future to be like this?

When you and your chums at Apple hit on the groundbreaking idea of marketing high-technology products based on their beautifully sculpted and ergonomically designed form, rather than function you set a precedent: a milestone in computing some might say.

Who would have thought that people could be duped into not only accepting a product that behaves counterintuitively but also into singing it's praises like the incessant assertions of middle class parents when given a platform to present evidence of the above average cognitive development of their offspring. That the very people who needed that gentle bit of coercion into purchasing something slightly less common would be the ones extolling the virtues of their acquisition like some kind of crazed evangelical christian on a baptism binge, well, who said brand loyalty was a phenomenon enjoyed only by manufacturers of mobile phone handsets?

Your company's stone-cladding approach to the technologies market has been the epitome esotericism, ensuring almost fanatically isolationist partisans. Exploiting the base human desire to be part of an elite group of cultured, trendy and yet corporately orientated clique. Such unashamedly cynical and calculated manipulation of ones peers leaves me with little doubt that you are the Antichrist.

With this in mind, it should have come as little surprise to me when one of your computers completely failed to conform to accepted industry standards when writing information to a peripheral device. Admittedly, it looked pretty damn cool whilst corrupting my mass storage unit: it's screen conforming almost effortlessly to the golden ratio, the bright colours a wonderful counterpoint to the smooth black finish of its polymer shell. As far as hard disc destruction goes, I'd be hard pushed to name a more aesthetically pleasing executed example.

I guess, what I'm trying to say is, why, in the name of all that is holy, did you create an organisation that pays about as much heed to agreed industry standards as one might pay to an unkempt middle aged man stumbling around the street with a can of carlsberg special brew, accompanied by the faint smell of the week old urine thanks to his alcohol induced incontinence as he mumbles incoherently about being related to Steve McQueen?

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Date: 2006-12-11 02:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] untermensch.livejournal.com
Fucking fantastic rant (hear hear).

Fucking terrible circumstances.

Don't touch that hard drive. Don't plug it into anything, don't reformat it. We should be able to get most of your stuff back. I've done countless data recoveries over the years...

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Date: 2006-12-11 10:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crazymeandave.livejournal.com
i bought software (active undelete).
for the first time.
i feel used and dirty... still, it works - the data's happily sitting on the drive, i just gotta find 300G of storage to copy the files off the drive before reformatting it.

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Date: 2006-12-11 11:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] untermensch.livejournal.com
Aw shit, I have some super ace hardc0re decent free data recovery tools, hope it wasn't expensive. I would be able to help out some with storage, if you want to give me the drive for a few days I could make a plan using my hard drives and my flatmate's.

(no subject)

Date: 2006-12-11 12:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crazymeandave.livejournal.com
well, thanks to the pis poor performance of the dollar at the moment it was only £20.

i seem to have bad luck with storage mediums, so it's probably a sensible investment.

(no subject)

Date: 2006-12-11 11:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] untermensch.livejournal.com
Oh yeah what was that I was supposed to be emailing you?

(no subject)

Date: 2006-12-11 12:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crazymeandave.livejournal.com
dunno. something important maybe?

(no subject)

Date: 2006-12-11 12:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] object17.livejournal.com
Oh my god could apple suck any harder.

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Date: 2006-12-11 04:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crazymeandave.livejournal.com
well, they could look like they were designed by peter eisenmann or one of his many minions

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