Is there a way to put myself in suspended animation?
Normally, I wouldn’t want to miss a summer but what with today’s developments, this world will seem to me “a sterile promontory”, the summer something merely to endure, for what is life when one must wait until September for real joy and happiness?
The long awaited 2011 Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference has come and gone, and, for those of us in the know, life will never be the same, what with Lion, IOS5, and iCloud awaiting us.
IOS5 alone promises 200 new features, almost 20 of which were actually divulged. But if those 20 are any indication, we all have so many exciting features we will never use to anticipate. But can mere humans be expected to endure such a wait? I cannot but regard myself with scorn when I think that mere weeks ago I thought my new IPad 2 would assure eternal happiness.
To think that I have lived this long without the sheer joy and happiness that one gets from improved notifications. Now that I know they await me, how am I supposed to put one foot in front of another for the long period between now and when I can finally get notified? My Iphone and IPad experiences will be hollow without Twitter integration, for even though I have only committed one tweet this year, it will be agony knowing that to tweet again I may need to enter my username and password more than once. And though I already have several to-do programs, the deep satisfaction I get from using them will be gone knowing that Apple will have its own app in September, thereby destroying the companies that authored the apps I now have. The list of life altering improvements goes on and on.
This is almost as great as when life as we know it changed when I could buy the Beatles on ITunes, just like Apple said it would. Not, by the way, that I have ever bought a Beatles song on ITunes, for what self respecting child of the 60s did not already have all their CDs. But I sleep better, and my dreams are untroubled and sweet, just knowing that I can buy the Beatles digitally if I should ever get the urge. Many people have forgotten that life altering day when The Fab Four were no longer imprisoned in a jewel case. I have not. And I know that I will never forget where I was when I found out about the hundreds of improvements waiting for me in IOS 5, et. al. (In my office, clicking the refresh button every 15 minutes or so, if you must know)
I only hope I can make it until September. The excitement may prove my undoing.
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