Apple Anarchy

This is not my time of day to write, but I am going to anyway.  I am going to curtail my normal daily activity, and instead sit here at the computer and blog about politics in America.  Charlie Rose is a well-respected journalist, but in my eyes slowly but surely he has moved in position.  The son of North Carolina tobacco farmers Mr. Rose has built his empire not unlike the tech. entrepreneurs of today.  I still watch his interviews from time to time, and most of them are intelligent and telling.  The one I watched last night interviewing an Apple representative was sickening.  I am not an Apple basher.  Far from it I have owned a Macintosh computer since 1991, when I attended The Ohio State University and purchased a Mac LC with the student discount.  I graduated through surplus materials at OSU to a Mac ll and then a PowerMac, which I accelerated with a Newer Technology G3 Nubus card.  That computer worked flawlessly, after I learned its operating system (Mac 8.5) and eliminated the INITS which were unnecessary for my music production software to function reliably.  It was not connected to the internet, and each and every INIT that was unnecessary and bundled in its OS were eliminated via Apples own control panel menus.  The Extensions Manager was its name.  This was an effective piece of software which enabled the user to customize his computer's performance.  Third party programs and processes could be eliminated so the processor could focus on the tasks at hand such as MIDI sequencing or the recording of digital audio.  I used the PowerMac operating at G3 speeds to produce eleven CD projects of music, much of it original.  These CD's sit awaiting the formation of my custom website, where I will sell them via the internet.  (I am not a web designer, so they will be sitting for a while longer)  I am a musician and a composer.  I have spent the bulk of my life performing music on the piano and trumpet, and writing.  Keeping up with the times is not in my agenda at the moment, but it will surface as a priority in the near future.  My point is computing has become exclusive at the behest of the manufacturers.  This practice was pioneered by Bill Gates and Microsoft's bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows.  As you may recall the federal government sued Microsoft and broke up the company in a large anti-trust case.  As you may recall the telephone network also was broken up into smaller factions called the Baby Bell's.  It seems at that time the general consensus believed corporate monopolies were bad.  [sic]  Today the opposite is true.  It would seem the general consensus is large blanket providers are better for the consumer.  Where is the competition?  Where is the system of Checks and Balances?  Where is healthy competition?  Largely they have been eliminated.  What surprise is it that consumers have no control over the prices of medical care, drugs, or food?  Certainly America no longer is a democracy, and certainly we no longer are free.  It has been a deliberate and clever campaign perfectly represented by Mr. Rose's interview televised last evening with an Apple representative.  I must have been watching a paid informercial for Apple.  Charlie marveled at how great the iPhone is like it was the Holy Grail.  I thought to myself, "This is the highest form of propaganda."  It effectively brain-washed viewers into believing the rhetoric.  While I can understand the implications of a well-thought-out and manufactured device, a handheld computer is not going to revolutionize life in America.  Conversely in the long run it will prove to be a failure.  Without waxing conspiratorially electromagnetic bursts from the sun's solar winds are common.  Our magnetosphere is weakening from a variety of negative assaults including cell phone usage.  It will not take much to produce a surge of electricity so strong that all computer use will be wiped out.  It is elementary.  I look around me in close proximity to one of the world's largest military installations, and the vulnerabilities are exorbitant.  It would not take much to bring the American machine to a complete standstill.  (and this conclusion arises with no active thought)  I never will trust my money or my estate to a computer.  No one else should either.  You are just asking for the anarchy which will ensue.  It's like getting into a car with a complete stranger.  How many people must be assaulted, raped, or murdered before a class action lawsuit persuades Uber to rethink their ground-breaking ride-sharing business?  Mr. Rose relentlessly suggested that Apple must have another groundbreaking product around the corner?  Why?  I can appreciate this insistence in the field of journalism.  Often Mr. Rose is able to elicit telling answers from reluctant guests about volatile issues.  On this occasion I must digress.  I understand what an iPhone can do, and never will I buy one.  If I want to shoot video, I will buy a video camera.  If I want photographs that move, I will by a video camera.  If I want to market still photographs as truncated video wrapped with a clever bow, I.....   will be Apple pandering to adolescents.  Fuck me.  This childish propaganda must stop.  If the FCC can't monitor and regulate stilted advertising, who will?  Big Brother is alive and well, and has grown into a full fledged King Kong.  He is all around us, and I for one am frightened.