Settling in
Think of it as a gentle warning: in a manner similar to stray cats, Apple devices will invade your personaal space, settle in on the most comfortable surfaces, purr politely and then make the house their home. You will become an incidental. You will take care of their physical needs, and if you open the door, they will allow members of their family (race?) to join the party. Right now, I’m tasked with serving three iToys, and there are others around each corner of the house. Scary.
Right now, I’m waiting for things to “load”. Or reload. The line blurs, because I’m transferring my persoan data from an older iPad to its new sibiling. Not a replacement. The game is that you can’t have just one. There is a process. Woe to he, or she, that tries to jump ahead, thinking that the job is familiar. Your second mistake.
Some of you may be old enough to remember time estimation. Like when Windows (first version and more) would throw up a graphic showing the time remaining for whatever. It wasn’t accurate. Ever. And the characteristic is shared into our current epoch. The computer says it will take a certain amount of time, and then throw the estimate away. Over and over. I have pages of icons, all shaded in gray and renamed to “waiting”. It could take us through tomorrow for order to be restored in my Apple universe.
I’ve got plenty of time to adjust. I mean, they own my space, now. Best get used to life with my new overlords. And I have lots of new stickers. I hope. Isn’t that the reason why Apple has so many disciples?
