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<\/a>I\u2019m not buying an Apple Watch.<\/p>\n
In fact, as Apple obsoletes the many Apple products I own, I plan to replace them with products from another company. When Apple obsoletes my Mac Pro, my sons and I are going to build a computer. I\u2019ll probably do another post on that decision at another time.<\/p>\n
Until Tim Cook took off after my First Amendment rights, I was a fanatic Apple fan girl. I\u2019ve got a desktop, laptops, a phone and a tablet to replace over time. I assume Apple will help me with this with their new Tim Cook method of forcing Apple owners to buy new products by obsoleting the ones they have.<\/p>\n
I already have an old Mac Pro and a Gen 1 iPad that ain\u2019t doin\u2019 nothin\u2019 because Apple obsoleted them. I gave the iPad to one of my kids and he tells me it\u2019s unusable because it will no longer run Safari. I also have an obsoleted iPhone out there, somewhere. I donated that, so I don\u2019t know what\u2019s happening with it.<\/p>\n
So I know without doubt that every single Apple product I own will take a dirt bath due to Apple obsoleting it, and that will probably happen fairly soon. That alone is reason enough to look elsewhere for replacements. But I\u2019ve been such a fan girl that I allowed the company to do this to me.<\/p>\n
Until now. I\u2019ll put up with them ripping me off by maliciously obsoleting my expensive tech stuff. I\u2019ll tolerate Apple Maps, which still sends me on long trips to nowhere when all I want to do is cross the street. I\u2019ve accepted the many different plugs necessary to charge my laptops, and I work around the inconvenience of no cd player on my Mackbook Air. I\u2019ll even tolerate the bizarre and unfixed bug in their operating system that keeps telling me that my computer can\u2019t sync with iCloud and inviting me to open iCloud preferences and fix this.<\/p>\n
But using my money to go after my First Amendment rights is a bridge too far. Because you see, it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>my money. And yours. All those billions Apple has? That market share that keeps growing? That bounding stock price?<\/p>\n Your money and mine filled those coffers and pushed that stock price.<\/p>\n If you want to spend your money to finance attacks on your First Amendment rights, then go for it. This is America. People can be as politically suicidal as they want. But me and my $$ are going elsewhere.<\/p>\n