Steve Jobs Wouldn't Have Done That.

A couple of years ago, the Macbook Air came out, and people were swooning over it, and loving it, and everybody was going crazy over it, and I was appalled. I mean, sure, ultra-thin laptop is a cool concept, but something about the way they made it irked me. It was one of those things where I said something like "I'm glad they didn't do this to their other computers. If they do it to their other computers, it's a deal-breaker. I refuse to buy a computer like that."

Fast-forward to 2012. Apple releases a whole new line of computers that I refuse to buy. Congratulations, Apple Incorporated. I didn't want to have to say this, but you're completely stupid without Steve Jobs.

Since Steve Jobs died, Apple has been receiving a lot of criticism prefaced with the sentence, "Steve Jobs wouldn't have done that." The new iPhone is a gimmick, their advertising abilities are suffering, and they're making mistakes that, quite frankly, Steve Jobs wouldn't have made.

This is almost too much, though. Quite frankly, though, given Apple's history with this area of their computers, this might have been a mistake that Steve Jobs would have made. That's actually kind of scary, because it's one of the stupidest mistakes a modern computer company can make.

They're officially selling expensive, high end computers that DON'T HAVE DISK DRIVES.

As somebody who purchases CDs, somebody who watches DVDs on their computer, and somebody who likes to burn disks, that's kind of a big deal for me. I can't get an iMac now, or a new macbook pro, or a mac mini because Apple decided to take out one of the most important pieces of hardware they can offer as part of their "all in one" computer. In a world where I'm a film major and find it advantageous to run Mac OS X on my computer, and a world where it's felonious to run Mac OS X on a non-macintosh computer, this is a pretty big conundrum for me.

I see what they're trying to do. They want everybody to use iTunes, or download off of their app store, and back up their programs on the iCloud, which would be fantastic if we didn't live in a world where almost everybody still buys everything on a disk.

This was my deal-breaker. I said it more than two years ago- "I love Apple and all, but I'm not going to buy a computer that doesn't have a disk drive." And if apple isn't going to give me a disk drive, then I'm not going to buy their computers. Thankfully they haven't completely phased out disk-drives yet, so I'm not QUITE dropping out of fandom (though the iPhone and iPad were already sending me in that direction). BUT, if the disk drive completely vanishes from their computers? Well, Windows 7 works beautifully.