Apple 2.0
You know, for every cigarette…fifteen minutes of your life. I lost untold months of my own life to a similar, but far more sinister addiction: “The Oregon Trail.” My elementary school’s computer lab was filled with short chairs, smelly kids, and Apple II’s. I was supposed to be practicing my touch typing, but my teacher offered to pass out the game disks (in all their 5.25″ glory) if we finished our lessons early. I too quickly learned that if you simply typed in the first and last words of every sentence, the computer thought that you had in fact finished your lesson. I now wonder why my teachers weren’t even just a little suspicious at my youthful 80 WPM prowess. Such were my only experiences with Apple computers.
You see Apples were the rich kids’ computers. They ran some special OS that made them different–made them special. At the time, I didn’t know or care to know what an OS even was, I just wanted to play Oregon Trail and my family’s second-hand 8086 wouldn’t play it. I was angry.
From that day forward, Apple became the embodiment of proprietary software for me. And so it surprised me when old Jobs came out some time ago calling for digital right management to be forsaken altogether. I wrote it off as PR. But wait, what’s this? EMI is heeding Jobs’ call? Good job Jobs.
-mixtape
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