Outcasts Forever

The Wife took the plunge and got a tablet.

Unfortunately, even though it meets her requirements in every conceivable way and she is extremely happy with it, it is still the kiss of death in one major respect; the lack of an Apple logo on the back ensures scorn and pariah-dom with the more Cool & Relevant crowd, since it has been made abundantly clear over the years that you only matter if you use Apple.

I’m still not sure exactly when creativity, personal expression and freedom to choose meant “everyone uses the same closed platform, and if you cross the line, you’re not one of us,” but this is the strange situation we now find ourselves in when it comes to creative people and the products they use.

It’s rather unfortunate too, because aside from the lack of an Apple logo, this Asus Transformer thing performs admirably in every other way, and is much cheaper to boot.  Maybe someday there will come a time when people who don’t use Apple products won’t be scorned as second class citizens, but I doubt that will happen in my lifetime.  In the meantime, we’ll just wear the star on our clothes that marks us out as destined for The Camps.