Today’s comic reflects my opinions about Apple (and my own nerdy love of science fiction… check out the hover text!). Apple seems hell-bent on riding the world of buttons and switches with their devices.  They also seem totally cool with moving technology backwards (the Apple Tablet, or as it’s called, the iPad, is basically a giant iPhone, only without any kind of 3G network, a camera, a phone, or a lot of crap).  I love Apple for their computers and their operating system (they could bribe people into putting some freaking video games out for Mac though… please).

But I’ve become more and more frustrated with where this whole iPod minimalist fetish thing is going.  No more keypads, no more power switches, now all we have is a big-ass screen.  It’s the future!  Right?

Time Tangent: The future called:

I honestly LIKE buttons.  I wish to hell my iPod just had a “shuffle” or “menu” button on it so I didn’t have to scroll through a dozen different menus to get there.  Video games on the iPhone are a joke, because you cover half the screen up with your ugly fingers in order to do anything.  I think a lot of the apps for the iPhone are nifty (downright brilliant) , but sometimes I just want my phone to be… a phone. I want it to be a phone first and best before it’s anything. And AT&T… it’s far from the best of anything.

I really don’t understand how Apple press releases have become “events” now. Seriously, every time Steve Jobs farts, we get a video of him parading around on stage telling the world what it smelled like, and the internet EATS IT THE HELL UP. We EAT this man’s FARTS.

Ironic tangent: I obviously am not helping to curb this. Thank you.

This tablet thing is another in a line of disappointments from the company, not to mention another product that’s trying to appeal to the button-genocide our culture is going through. I don’t get why we have to do away with buttons. In the video game world, we have the Wii then Project Natal for XBox, and now Sony is getting into the motion control business with their new controller-

Okay, you got to be f***ing kidding me. That’s a goddamn dildo.

As neat as the Wii is, it’s a toy. My arms are no where near as responsive as my fingers and my thumbs are, and it’s not going to change. That’s why controllers had buttons and such in the first place! They work. And the less I think about Natal, the better.

So yeah. Dear Apple: Make me something with buttons again. This button holocaust must end.