It’s Thursday. If Steve Jobs was alive, I’d kick him in the nuts. My Mom had an older iPad that needed to be replaced. So, being the good son that I am, I bought her a new one for Christmas. Let me get this out of the way right now—I fucking hate Apple. And being the “computer guy” in the family means I get to deal with setting up the new iPad and transfer everything over from her old one. Surprisingly, the setup and transfer of data went smoothly. What pisses me off is Apple likes to streamline is OS by removing any and all buttons. Home button? Gone. So now you’re left trying random gestures to figure out simple navigation and basic operations. How do I see all the running programs? Oh, just swipe from this corner to that corner at a specific speed diagonally. Doesn’t work. Try again. Again. Fucking again! How do I turn the damn thing off? Pressing the power button brings up Siri! Oh, wait, maybe it’s another gesture—but it didn’t respond to my middle finger. Oh, to turn it off you need to press the power button and the volume button at the same time—how fucking intuitive! I know Steve  didn’t design the current iPhone or iPad, but it was him that pushed his design team to eliminate physical controls like buttons to make it more intuitive. Seriously, if there was a way to dig up his rotting corpse, I’d kick him in the fucking nuts.

-keep