All posts tagged: Apple

Posted on Nov 24, 2025 at 11:52 by scott truitt

YouTube is full of ads.  Subscribe to YouTube Premium.  Spotify is full of ads.  Subscribe to Spotify Premium.  Both still track you and sell your data.  But you can’t stop that.  Everything has an ad  in front of it,  over top of it,  sandwiched in the middle of it.  Unskippable ads.  Unescapable bullsh!t. Accept our privacy policy so we can share data with our 837 business partners.  Accept our cookie policy so we can follow you everywhere and manipulate everything you see.  Everything h

Posted on Jun 26, 2025 at 07:30 by scott truitt

I waited in line by myself to buy the first Apple iPod in 2001. I arrived about 20 minutes before the Apple Store in my hometown of Columbus opened. It was the debut of Apple’s first handheld device at one of its first retail stores in the US. Two experiments at once. Less than six years later, I queued for hours with thousands to buy the first iPhone at the Apple Store in San Francisco. The line stretched down Stockton St and around O’Farrell St. People dressed in costume (never a surprise i