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My iPod Touch has dust under its glass. Yup. It sure has. How did it get there? Well, I imagine it was somewhere where there might be dust - such as a pocket. I imagine that I am not alone in placing my Touch in a pocket.

Also, I guess, the touch has at least one hole, somewhere, where dust can get in. Perhaps it’s that glaringly open USB port? perhaps it is.

Is it possible to remove the dust? Probably not. At least not for me, the consumer. As someone who has purchased an Apple product, I’ve already waved all my rights as a consumer. The iPod can only be “repaired” by Apple.

Only by Apple? Yes. And if there’s no warranty? If I bought the item on E-bay and the seller didn’t include the reciept, despite promising to do so? Well, then you’re fucked. You may spend the same amount a new iPod Touch would cost, and they’ll give you a new one. Yes, this is the same as just buying a Goddamn new one. This is not “service”.

You can attempt to remove the dust yourself. You will probably fail. Apple has decided that you don’t ever need to replace the glass or even open the device. Therefore, they’ve made it nigh-f**ing-impossible to do so. Especially without proper tools. You’ll probably break the glass.

And then you’re fucked.

Do I like this?

No, I don’t.

Will I buy anything from Apple again?

Probably not.

Apple are doing a lot of great things. I doubt there would be such a push for touchscreen phones if it weren’t for the iPhone, and if OSX hadn’t shown the world that OS’s don’t need to look clunky there would be no sleek Ubuntu or W7; it’d still look like windows 95. I have no doubt that the iPad will work as such a forerunner for tablet PC’s.

The trouble is, Apple’s own devices are just so incredibly locked. They don’t trust the user - they want to protect the user from him - och herself. To me, that’s kind of condescending. I got nothing against simplicity, especially in interfaces - but to jump from there to “All Powerusers Are Bad People” is quite a leap. But OK, their target audience doesn’t include people who like computers, that’s OK… almost.

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I’ve been thinking about getting a new phone once my current one’s been paid off… I’m on a Telia 18-month plan and it ends in about a month. I’m probably going to stay with Telia; I like their coverage… I was thinking of getting an iPhone, but like you’ve probably noticed, I’m not too happy with the Apple way of doing things. And they’re not very happy with me, either - they’re doing their absolute best to keep me using their hardware, while at the same time telling me, over and over again, that I can’t do the things I want to do. I’m a “power user”, and I’m tired of their condescending crap.

My solution: Looks like I’ll be getting a Nokia N900.

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Jag studerar ju vid Linnéuniversitetet i Växjö, just nu en ganska lös och flummig kurs som heter “Datorstött lärande”. Jag gillar den, mycket för att den innebär att få träffa andra lärare och diskutera olika sätt att använda datorn som hjälp i skolan.

Nu fick vi en uppgift där vi skulle skriva typ ett A4 på ämnet “elektronisk kommunikation och mänsklig närvaro”. Många skrev om specifika klassrumssituationer, hur jobbigt de tycker att det är med mobiltelefoner, och så vidare. Tanken var att vi skulle diskytera och fantisera kring för- och nackdelar, utveckling, interaktion och kommunikation, och så…

Såhär blev det för mig:

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People who’ve read my list of annoyances regarding iTunes and the iPod Touch may be wondering why the hell I still own a Touch - if I dislike it so much, why not get something else?

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#13: No way of checking how much space the apps take. Sure, I can check how much the apps themselves use - but not, of course, sort them by size or anything like that - in iTunes, but I can’t see, for instance, how much space my offline Spotify songs take, or if I should begin trimming my comicbook collection.

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As you might’ve gathered from the last few weeks of more or less constant nagging and bitching, I’ve recently gotten an iPod Touch. Despite a number of complaints, it’s still, I fear, better than any of the alternatives, at least for now.

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…is still the original X-box. Not because of its admittedly mediocre game library, but because of its flexibility.

It can’t have escaped anyone’s attention that I’m kind of a geeky kind of guy. I like fiddling with things. I like taking things apart, see how they work, make my own little contribution, and then put them together again. And so the X-box was more or less made for people like me.

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#12: No power profiles. This is a small one, but annoying. When my iPod Touch is connected, as in recieving power from somewhere, I’d like it to stay on and un-autolocked. When it’s not, I’d like the autolock to kick in after about a minute. Laptops and netbooks usually have “power management profiles” of some sort. Why not the Touch?

Told you it was a small one.

Äntligen finns mitt första tryckfärdiga skötebarn att köpa. Spelet heter Evolutionens Barn, och är ett semberättarrollspel som kombinerar dystopier a’ Du sköna nya värld och Venus är Vår med actionanime a’ Ghost in the Shell och Bubblegum Crisis.

Äh, gå till spelets hemsida istället.

Och sen tar du och köper spelet. Kom igen, det kostar inte mycket. Betala efter samvete och plånbok.

Evolutionens Barn är dessutom släppt via Creative Commons Erkännandelicens, vilket i korthet betyder att man får ladda hem, modifiera, sprida, sälja, skapa fanmaterial etc helt fritt. Allt jag kräver är attribueringsrätten, dvs att du måste skriva nånstans vem som ligger bakom verket från början. Tror du att du kan trycka upp EB och gå med vinst - gör det! Gör vad du vill! Kultur ska vara fri.