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What I think of the new Apple Products

What I think of the new Apple products

 

The new Apple products are so overly expensive. Firstly let’s talk about the Apple watch, it is so much money that you could buy a small car instead. How rich does Apple think we are to pay £599 for a small screen on your wrist? And that’s just for the actual watch itself. Don’t get me started on the stupidly overpriced cost for the wrist band for the Apple watch. From what I’ve researched and purchased the most expensive wrist band for the Apple watch costs a whopping £1500 - and between you and me it doesn’t even look that nice. From what I have heard in Apple conferences they plan on not making the newest Apple watch compatible with the older model; what this means is that you need to buy a new £1500 wrist band for your £599 Apple watch but hey if you can afford the new Apple watch then you can afford a new wrist band. On a light note though, but only buy a little, Apple are planning to produce and market a cheaper alternative to this super costly wristband that you spent all of your savings on however, this may sound pleasing to some but I haven’t even told you the price yet. They range from around £15 - £30 which is kind of ridiculous. Fair enough Apple want to squeeze every last penny out of you but if you think about it this way. If you bought a new phone how would you feel if you had to buy the charger separately?

And that’s my point surely Apple should at least give you a complimentary wrist band and a letter that should say “thank you for wasting your money on our overpriced watch, here’s a free wrist band that may or may not snap at any point so you will have to buy another one from our shop J” 

The next thing I want to talk about is the Apple pencil. I’ll say it again, Apple Pencil. It’s a pencil, for the iPad. Does anyone else hear those words, they really don’t work well in a sentence. It’s like saying chocolate and fish in the same sentence!! It doesn’t work well. In the beginning of Apple, Steve Jobs announced that they would never release an Apple stylus because it was useless and not needed. But look what’s happened now.

“The Apple Pencil gives you a variety of tools in a single instrument. You hold it, but it doesn’t hold you back” but it’s just a pencil. Ok I can see why it may be a good idea (if you’re an artist) but other than being an easier way to draw on the iPad I can’t find any other helpful use for it. Apple have been debating on selling these “pencils” for around £526! And that’s just for a 32GB one, the prices just get higher and higher with a 128GB costing you around £624.7 with that money you could literally buy a decent sized computer plus the mouse and keyboard but remember, this is Apple we are talking about. Fair play to them Apple is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics, the world's largest technology company by total assets, and the world's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer. But I feel like that The Apple pencil was a bad idea to start. Before you start telling me, yes I have seen the reviews and do you know what I am quite impressed. The 15 second charge from your phone will get you 30 minutes of use. That is some next gen technology there but what I don’t get is why they don’t start putting these into phones and other devices that would make everyone’s day a whole lot easier. While we’re on the subject of charging here is what I think is a really bad design flaw. The apple pencil is around 12.9inches and let’s say you charge it on your iPhone 5s (4.87inches) I’m no maths genius but even I can tell that it is going to be one long connection, even though you are charging for around 15 seconds it only takes one swift karate chop or a little nudge from a passer-by and the connection is broken leaving you with a useless piece of plastic and possibly even a broken phone.

 

Institution - Rolling Stone

Rolling Stones Magazine

Rolling Stone is a fortnightly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the magazine's publisher, and music critic Ralph J. Gleason. The magazine was first known for its musical coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors, and popular music. In recent years, the magazine has resumed its traditional mix of content. At Ralph Gleason's suggestion, Wenner named his magazine after a Bob Dylan song." Then Wenner stated in the first issue that the title of the magazine referred to the 1950 blues song, "Rollin' Stone", recorded by Muddy Waters, the rock and roll band The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan's hit single "Like a Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. However, the magazine distanced itself from the underground newspapers of the time, such as Berkeley Barb, embracing more traditional journalistic standards and avoiding the radical politics of the underground press. In the very first edition of the magazine, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone "is not just about the music, but about the things and attitudes that music embraces."

Institution - Spin

Spin Magazine

 

Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 in America and published by Bob Guccione, Jr... The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine. The Institution had a total of 459,586 circulations in 2011.

Spin was established in 1985. In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college rock and on the ongoing popularity of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard. It pointedly provided a national alternative to Rolling Stone's more establishment-oriented style. Spin prominently placed newer artists such as R.E.M., Prince, Run-D.M.C., Eurythmics, Beastie Boys, and Talking Heads on its covers and did lengthy features on established figures such as Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Miles Davis, Aerosmith, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, and John Lee Hooker—Bart Bull's article on Hooker won the magazine its first major award and also on a cultural level, the magazine devoted significant coverage to hardcore punk, alternative country, reggae and world music, experimental rock, jazz of the most adventurous sort, the burgeoning college rock and underground music scenes of the 1980s, and a variety of fringe styles. Artists such as the Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, X, Black Flag, and the former members of the Sex Pistols, The Clash, and the early punk/New Wave movement were heavily featured in Spin‍ '​s editorial mix. Spin’s extensive coverage of hip-hop music and culture, especially which of contributing Editor John Leland, was notable at the time.

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