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Feb. 5, 2005 Just the other day, my brother-in-law came to our house and spent some time talking about his favorite subject—new technology. One particular item of interest was the Apple iPod. His friend had bought him an accessory for his iPod which allowed him to connect it to his car stereo and listen to his favorite downloaded music. That absolutely amazed me. I still remember being flabbergasted when at the age of fourteen, my friend’s older brother bought a CD player and installed it into his vehicle. I was floored. We came from a poorer neighborhood where technology was the last thing you spent money on, so when I saw this, it gave me a good shock! But I loved music, so I was really excited about this new invention. Yet, I was disappointed with how it would skip if you went over a bump on the road. Now you have this new device making waves; it has downloaded music—and a vast amount of it—playing from a little box in through your stereo. Okay, I think I’m starting to get overwhelmed with how far technology has gone. In this effect, let me first say, I apologize if I am incorrect on how the accessory works—this is, I believe, how I understood it when I finally tuned into the conversation. Secondly, I must applaud Apple. Way to go. They went from having products that were Dogs to having a fantastic Star product—and they just keep going. Now that is innovative management, R&D, and change working for you. It goes to prove that thinking outside of the box can generate ideas that you wouldn’t even think possible—we knew that technology was creating smaller products because of demand, but the rate that technology is escalating is simply amazing. Let me go back a few years with my first learning experience on a computer—which was coincidentally an Apple. This was when I was about five years old. Okay, I think I mentioned before that I was in grade seven when I had my first experience…well yes…that’s when I actually used the keyboard and got results—results that were good. I do have a good reason why I never mention my experience on this particular machine. It was the most horrendous experience which had colored my thinking of Apple for a long time. The education program in my school brought in this fancy little Apple computer for a trial period so we could be tested on some basic skills and techniques in reading, writing, counting, etc. I believe that the software program being run on it had a turtle (see, it was such a bad experience, I can’t even remember it clearly!) which you were suppose to issue commands to it via the keyboard to make it move. I think you could also make it do lines and other things. Well, I couldn’t get it to do anything, whereas my classmates could. I started getting frustrated and I think I started on a temper tantrum, and that’s when the teacher pulled me away. Now just imagine how mad I got when the next kid after me got the turtle to move. I was not a happy camper and I vowed from that day on to never use and Apple computer. That was short-lived—I did use one further on in my career afterwards. It was in a course that I never thought would use computers; especially an Apple. I was in University taking a higher-level Anthropology course in Paeleoanthropology (ancient apes—my spell checker says it’s the wrong spelling but Google says its correct) and in it, we had to learn nomenclature. The professor was using a nomenclature program on, guess what? An Apple computer! I was dreading it, but it ended up being not so bad. Hated the mouse, but I loved how the software was user friendly. One point for Apple. As the years go by, Apple is getting better and better—but I must say, they are the gurus of taking as much music as you can and putting it in a little box so you can take it wherever you want. Here’s to Apple, their iPod—they finally hit the nail on the head! Till next time… ------------ About the author: Barbara has been writing short stories for the enjoyment of friends and family for years. She has published three books, Collection, Collection II, and Pawn: A Novel. Collection II is currently undergoing publication and will be availabe February 2005 through most internet booksellers. Barbara lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and enjoys writing, reading and tending to her other field: accounting. Website: http://www.authorsden.com/barbaraannamarjanovic Email: blueswan28@yahoo.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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