By taking a major web technology, and completely deleting it from their device, Apple has made the iPad worthless.

It shouldn’t have an Mp3 player Operating System hacked/ported to what should be a computing platform.

It should not sync with iTunes. It should run iTunes. You should sync your iPhone or iPod to your iPad, not iPad to your computer. What if you want it to be your computer?

And, of course, multi-tasking. Give me a break: You can make an OS that runs circles around Windows for decades and you can’t bother your programmers to add 1 more item to their task lisk? Maybe they can’t multi-task either.

Apple, you say that you make products the way they should be made, not the way the mob wants them. And I’ve always liked that about you. So I’m gonna use the same philosophy: I don’t care how many hipsters, fanboys, coffee shoppers and scene geeks go out and buy this thing: Your new product missed the mark.

And so does your censorship of web technology. It is a slap in the face of all the designers, developers and creatives that have evangelized your products since your darkest days. You can’t just take a major component of the Internet, whether it’s HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, XML, etc, etc, or Flash, and completely remove it from your device.

Go back to your cubicles, create an iPad Pro (or whatever you want to call it, something better than “Pad”), price it $100 higher, put OSX or OSX-lite on it, the Real Safari with the Real Internet, and act like this upgraded version was going to be your flagship the whole time.

I don’t know if a whole lot of explanation is necessary after you compare these two pictures, which I took at Wal-Mart tonight. Wow!

Apple, Apple, Apple… when will you find the limits of your greed, your “in-factor,” your branding, your mark-ups? Seeing Apple charge thirty dollars for a few pairs of socks brought me a rush of emotions, and interestingly, the first thing that came to mind were my days in school. Back when Steve Jobs had just come back to Apple, just when the company was beginning to drown in its own lack of relevance. A company that, though it made really pimp desktops and notebooks that were great for design and audio, surely wasn’t going to last much longer.

Enter the iPod… a little white plastic box (well, “boxy,” especially in generation 1) that would forever change the world (and the world’s perception of Apple). Being a design student/Mac user watching the release of the iPod and subsequent explosion of Apple’s name felt very strange… maybe the way it felt to be a rock ‘n’ roller in Seattle during the late 80’s, only to see your favorite bar/garage bands like Nirvana take over the world in ‘92.

In other words, to summarize this rambling discourse (I’m still trying to get my mind around all this), in 2000, who would’ve thought that Apple would one day be so IN that they would sell a pair of socks for $7.20?! Furthermore, in 2000, who would’ve thought that they, personally, would be so foolish as to pay this amount for a pair of socks in 2007? I don’t know…