iphone

says it all really – i don’t know what i’ll do – when i do ? i must have an iphone 4, well i do now, i have one.

Aug 26, 2010

apple offers very poor service {11}

it’s official – i tried to today, in two seperate ways, to buy an iphone 4 .. do you think i could NO !! well fuck me !!

the first option and in my humble, yet angry opinion, the best deal going around (at least for me ) in australia is the optus $59.00 per month deal, nothing up front, i.e. no money upfront for the phone, you just pay $59.oo per month. i went online to order it ( online even included 2 free months and free access to facebook and twitter #tbaootweets ) but alas no bloody phones in stock. dissappointed YES !!

so next idea, only because the bride’s away and i’m going off to do some grocery shopping, i try the apple robina store. friendly young man shakes my hand, like i’m his dead uncle giving him the keys to the family fortune and then races off to check that they can, READ WILL, sell me an iphone 4 on the $59.00 deal through optus ( not an outright purchase ), he comes back proudly stating of course they can – here’s “not the best business customer service decision” i’ve ever been involved in .. only if i come back tomorrow and line up at 9.00 am, i’m standing aghast, with the australia’s national debt in my trousers, or at least ready access to it, ready, obviously keen as evident by the category and many posts on tbaoo, to buy an iphone 4, yet - NO – go away, we don’t want you to buy it now, we will tell you when you can buy an apple iphone 4 .. FUCK OFF !! of course i realise they don’t know my backstory, but you just don’t do that to customers, unless of course you’re apple, it seems.

so unbeknownst to this young man of course, who by the way was cracking his knuckles like a gypsy knife throwing expert possesed,  tbaoo had recently bought an imac and iwork and stood tall and proud ready to purchase then next “must have” fashion, tech fan accessory .. an iphone 4. i want the one with antenna troubles, camera problems and apparently glass that breaks pretty easily, yes i know, even though i’ve read and heard of these issues, i want one, can i have one .. NO.

so what do i do now, i wait ?? - i wonder if that’s that next piece of technology from apple – an iwait, well, i’d call it iwon’tfuckingwait. ( calm, alan, it’ll be alright )

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Jul 30, 2010

my queue needs no apple {0}

as odd as it might seem, although not too odd for tbaoo though me thinks .. i walked by the robina town centre apple store today and was fraught with concern that i’d not waited in line like the scores of souls who had !! i just kick myself, ( a lot ) that i didn’t have my entry level paparazzi dslr  .. i would have peeled off a few and then placed them here for free so you the reader could enjoy, and then sold the remainder to the local media. their view on the event was here .. pitiful twats who can only relate to an interest in technology in the vastly overused description of geek. what ? are the local fat slob journo types ( both boys and girls ) all sprouting sporting jocks, blokey and blokette, social behemoths .. shit they’re just piss weak. if you want to know what happens in the world it’s better to experience it yourself and disbelieve, or bring at least 80% of scepticism to the material thrust upon you, even check the date !! they’ve been know to get that wrong.

to make matters worse i think i want to work at apple, i went to school ( unbelievable but true ) and a fellow from school ended up working at the factory / head office of apple in sydney, he was cool, long haired, had a name that sung and worked for a company that no one knew anything at all of what the frugality is a personal computer or an even and apple ? we grew older, i grew ruder and who knows where he is now. he could be running the show and might give me a job ( no not that job ) any-who, i’ve decided that i should apply and that’s that. next step, prepare a word document resume, using a helpful template .. and send it with the help of my outlook program, which is conveniently pre loaded on my pc. send all of this to aol in america with a redirect request via share to apple in america. simple, swift and with the help of adobe and power point i’ll have a beautiful  presentation ready for their edification !!!! long live the optimism of a tbaoo !!

if you’d like to start a career at apple – maybe design and/or invent something we don’t know we need or want yet, please go to this website and follow the prompts, don’t follow mine, you’ll only end up here at tbaoo and i don’t pay much …. YET !!

http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/

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Jul 27, 2010

they’ve announced at last {2}

well to borrow a phrase from others, it’s about bloody time !! the brouhaha has landed, the boat changed tack and the dogs are barking. woof it’s on .. iphone 4 is here on friday and the major iphone telcos have announced their pricing, to dear for me, but that shouldn’t matter, i’ll just steal one and pretend to make calls, be texting, accessing facebook ( all my friends ) and wiping photos like a mad woman grabbing a bargain in the lingerie clearance at david jones.

it will be clear once you’ve read the pricing, it’s confusing nonsense .. it could have been written by me, it’s a mess, how do they expect anyone to understand the complexity. well that’s the rub, they don’t, they’ll just sell you any old garbeld crap just to get you into their network and then on with the show.

will i do it – i think so – what will i choose – i don’t know. thanks to some alert info at the brisbane times.com i can search to my hearts content  …. plans available through the following major players ( some may be left out ) …

Optus | Telstra | Three | Vodafone

last boastful, pride ridden photo of the iphone, for a while !!

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Jul 18, 2010

australian iphone 4 is calling {14}

well – it’s out of the bag now, the release date, apparently !! here in australia is 30th July 2010. steve jobs has decreed as such !! he did say the phone was going to be $100.00 i think when the first launched in the us, oh well –  that can’t be right. to conteract the fact that smart phones aren’t all that smart, the iphone 4 will be sold complete with a $29.00 bumper to overcome the shorting out your hand provides, if you dare hold  it to make a call. i read somewhere that apple likes fridays for it’s product launches? and that here in australia, the customers who were forced (strong words, coerced might be better ) to sign up for 2 years are coming out of their contracts .. so it will be crisp and sharp in waiting, to see see what offers there are and how much i’ll have to pay.

regarding the so called death grip, your hand connects the deliberately separate section ( or gap in the one,  if you think of it that way ) of metal that is forming the aerial. if you place alfoil on your head the reception is improved by 30%, in fact if you do this while standing at the check out counter at the robina town centre apple store here on the gold coast i’m sure you’ll make the news, but that might not be for your brilliant reception, but the sheer silliness of your attire. if any one causes any grief for you – say that you read this nonsense on tbaoo.com, the security guy and i still have an arrangement !!

well it don’t matter, i’m still going to buy one !! it will have a bumper and a skin to prevent any damage. for details and to view the most riveting piece of video technology and the strangest infomercial i’ve ever seen in a long while, check this out.  actually it is remarkably simple and has me tweaked enough to post it here – well done larry greenberg …

i hope this cynical ranting and space, bogey men, phone repair suggestion doesn’t affect my wish to have an apple affiliate program.

this afternoon after watching larry rivet the shit out of me with his slight of hand gestures, i watched a more productive film called inner space on australia’s national broadcaster the abc, the 24 news is coming soon did i say that ?  well any-who, the inner space documentary, features john lautner – an architect of truly beautiful houses and buildings. this isn’t the place to accurately describe just how good they are , actually when i say good, i mean that i think they’re good. you would have to see for youself .. if i had an obscene amount of money, i’d be looking to buy silvertop, check them all out at the john lautner foundation – fantastic stuff !!

maybe with my yet to be purchased iphone 4 and my yet to be secured affiliate program, i’ll cut such a striking figure at the robina town centre apple store, and without alfoil on my head … i’ll make a shit load of money. here’s hoping !!

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Jul 14, 2010

what the truck {1}

i heard this on the radio today and after returning to my allocated lane, wiping vomit from my stubble i decided to post this amazing recording here on tbaoo – please enjoy, please us it as your ring tone and please leave my music collection alone –  of course in bold capital letters, i still want an iphone.

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