This is going to be one of those rare essays that isn’t about high falutin bs. It’s about how the Apple iOS operating system is really good.
Simply, that. I’m listening to “You Never Give Me Your Money” right now playing on my iPhone, and the Apple Music display has this cool feature where the album art blurs towards the top of the screen and it looks so cool how the blurred out trees and blue sky background the time and your battery status. It’s like, futuristic and streamlined and not uber sterile.
The music can get a little blown out when it’s turned way up, but the way that they have speakers at the top and bottom of the phone now is legit for watching stuff and makes the whole listening experience better.
I’m not here trying to be like “Apple is a perfect company” ya know they’ve got that lawsuit pending for anti-competitive practices regarding the App Store and whatever the in person stores can be sterile and it’s basically a new religion. I mean, damn, the symbol is literally a bitten apple, ring a bell? (Eden.) but still c’mon now let’s take a minute to be grateful for something.
I’m grateful to be able to read socially unacceptable books on my iPhone and not be judged for it cause nobody knows what I’m doing tehe. I’m grateful to save screenshots of interesting passages and Merriam Webster definitions so I can revisit the word later… they say it’s some three exposures to a given word before you actually know and may recite it in conversation with the juice bar girl.
I struggle sometimes to press the right words when I’m texting but I’m typing out this very essay with only my thumbs and once I get the hang of it I’m like 30-45 words a minute and that’s not that bad.
I like to only have a few things on the Home Screen background of my phone and I always put widgets at the top so I don’t have to reach way up there. Plus, how cool is the screen pull down feature!?
Get this, they have music videos on Apple Music, always streaming way HD. I’m grateful for that so that I don’t have to deal with ads in my face on yt just to watch the “I Know ?” Music video and cry about how Kylie totally f’ed up. Mhm, Emily…
I wish I could set the music shuffle to actually be random and not be set to an algorithm but I guess what do I know about anything anyway.
I had an Apple Watch but I think they’re actually completely superfluous and a waste of money and stupid but it was good for runs when I still wanted to listen to music running. Now I don’t listen to anything when I run, just life. Also I’m not going to say anything about the VR, just let be there.
The AirPods Max are exquisite. Whenever I’m in an Apple Store I’m over at the station straight blasting “yamborghini high” bobbing my head heavy. I like doing that cause church can be too serious sometimes.
I watched the keynote for the introduction of the iPhone recently and it’s so great to watch Steve Jobs again. That guy was special. A crazy thing about watching that keynote is that so much of how the iPhone 15 works is 1-for-1 how the original iPhone was designed. There was only one camera *gasp* and no “dynamic island,” but it really is the same platform.
J.W. 