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While it is admittedly virtually impossible to tell from my post of exasperation, I am actually a fanboy going back a very long time and at one point I actually worked for Apple when they were making their first portable.

Nevertheless, IMHO Apple is pursuing an incrementalist yet determined approach to biometrically identified, cloud controlled, off-site data computing. What they call security and safety is, to me, big brother monitoring. Their Apple ID is seriously non-trivial person-software-hardware data tracking, and they have been very open about wanting to move all of their OS architecture to “i” style.

So everyone else is doing it too? Yep, they are. I won’t even address the Seattle idiots, they’ve always been obvious. And of course Google just laughs in your face and has hipsters spit out arrogant data-grabbing declarations between lattes. But Apple’s refusal to admit they’re just as bad makes them even worse to me. They add an insult to injury, a demand I accept their Big Mommy assurances and that I make myself 9 years old with trust. Sorry, no sale. And the attempt is more than annoying - its enraging. Because its a demand and a lie that reveals Apples contempt for everyone. In other words, pure liberalism.

And if any of you think this little drama about the FBI being unable to reach data is true because of Apple’s heroic software encryption standards, you haven’t been reading the same articles I have on hardware back doors, or lack of cloud security. Doesn’t anyone get curious when the FBI starts yelling about Apple’s impenetrable security right after Apple’s biggest and most embarrassing software security failure in its history? Well I do.

Like I said, I’m a fanboy. I use a Mac, and I love it. But what’s going on with Apple (as well as most of the rest of the computing world) has me pretty depressed. It’s all about tracking people now - all of it, everywhere. And it’s grown so stark that Apple’s Happy Face looks like a clown in one of those slasher movies to me.

But of course, it’s the hippest, sleekest and most fashionable possible clown.