Your post is self-contradictory, downplaying Apple’s new offerings as old news, yet observing that everyone else will catch up in about a year. You deride the cloud as nothing new (ok, so it isn’t), and downplay the “twist” which changes the game and which others won’t catch up to for months if not years (Android isn’t trusted, Amazon told publishers to p!$$ off).
Buying a CD a month is hardly extravagant. Over 30 years, compressed to 256kbps, that’s around 265GB easy.
And as for sickness, which is more so: being happy that a shiny new leading-edge product has arrived, or passionately bashing it? So we like our toys; why do you feel compelled to insult them?
Oops, forgot to divide by 8 (bits vs. bytes).
That’s 33GB of content at 256kbps compressing a modest collection of 12 CDs per year for 30 years. A common collection will be several times larger.
“And as for sickness, which is more so: being happy that a shiny new leading-edge product has arrived, or passionately bashing it? So we like our toys; why do you feel compelled to insult them?”
LOL, most perceived Apple bashing by you and the other iFans is making light of the fact that everytime Apple releases something, you guys are right there without fail hyping it up. What Apple THRIVES on is hype and the drooling from its followers. Steve Jobs could take a crap in a box and iFans would be right there to pay $500 bucks for it and brag about how it’s the best crap ever.
Hate to tell you, but I’ve owned 2 different iPhones and still own several different models of iPods, so your labeling people as bashers is way off base.