Choices are not allowed under communism. Basic freedoms are removed in favour of a one-size-fits-all society. Individuality and self expression are frowned upon with extreme prejudice. The state decides what you will have, and that’s all there is.
And so it is also in the world of the ‘shiny-shiny’. A ‘shiny-shiny’ is an object valued by looks over function or even true value.
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Apple products are ‘shiny-shiny’ over functional and are favoured by those who want to be told what they can do rather than make their own choices or be free to experiment towards their own future. Apple products are always mesmerizingly pretty, capable of stopping the rational functionality of the brain and hypnotising members of the iCult to part with phenomenal amounts of cash for what is essentially yesterday’s technology.
A few times a year the junta will gather wide-eyed ‘shiny-shiny’ addicts into a room and preach of the second coming. This is about to happen.
Among the catch-up to functions that those of us outside the iCult have taken for granted for many years with our technology, will be the allowing of the iCult phones to make and receive video calls. Yes, that’s right, the ‘shiny-shiny’ users have finally been considered grown-up enough to be trusted with something that comes as standard on virtually every other platform!
Video calling is embedded as an option within all Android smartphones, most Nokia, Samsung, Blackberry, etc., etc., and has been around for a decade. Yet, for some reason iCultists were not allowed it.
Then, they were allowed a cut-down version.
Instead of it being called ‘video calling’, the junta renamed it ‘Face time’ and only allowed it to function via wi-fi connections, and also restricted it to be between Apple products only. So, like with almost every aspect of Apple technology, it was almost the same as the rest of the universe, but just not quite there. Such is the way of the parallel universe of sameness that has been created for the dream-state enjoying iCultists.
Yet now, a further bit of the real world is going to be allowed to filter over into theirs. This is not unlike when the North Korean authorities allowed zip fastener technology into their country to supplement buttons. Apple product users will at last be able to gaze at each other’s hypnotised fixed smiles and they say their mantras at each other, from wherever they are. Location and the need for wi-fi will no longer be a restriction.
For some inexplicable reason, and the Apple junta probably hate this, Apple products have nearly always allowed voice communication with the outside world, not just iPhone to iPhone. But will they now allow Apple product devotees to make and receive video calls to and from the technology used out here in the free world instead of restricting them to just other Apple products? Or will that be far too dangerous for iCultists?
I mean, heck, they might accidentally see all the advanced technology that we all already enjoy that they aren’t allowed to yet and make a break for the free world.
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