indecision strikes again...

so today . . . was the big day. the day everyone was waiting for. the day... when apple was expected to announce a new ipad.

would it be the same size? would they finally add flash player? or a usb port? would it be more expensive? faster? smaller? bigger? lots of speculation was out there, but today was the day we would finally know the truth.

look at what i've become...

i knew the announcement was set for 10:00 pacific time. thank goodness i live in pacific time! i searched online until i found someone who was actually at the event and was giving real time updates about what was happening. and then i waited to see what the future was going to be...

you would think i own apple stock...

i have this love/hate relationship with apple. i've always been a pc person, but last year i started down apple's slippery slope when i became a somewhat reluctant iphone4 owner. the ipad followed a few months later. and now, i seem to live for apple updates.

but it's complicated. my apple products are sleek and cool, but they aren't perfect. and they are expensive!! and so i go back and forth about whether to stay with my istuff or start looking at the android devices. i'm sure android devices aren't perfect either. and it would be another os for me to try to figure out. but apple is just so darned arrogant! i hate that!! and yet i love my istuff...

i've been having issues with my ipad. i've been to the genius bar at the apple store 3 or 4 times in the last couple of months. (have i mentioned how much i hate the apple store?!?! oh my goodness! it is a nightmare! it is always packed with people, and i don't know how they sell stuff--there aren't any cash registers or cashiers! just a bunch of 12 year olds wandering around in blue tshirts with iphones in their pockets and ipads in their hands.) i'm beginning to wonder if it is a hardware problem. this has started me thinking about an upgrade, which is why i was so tuned in to the big announcement today!

of course, the big news was the resolution of the new screen. it is apparently amazing, which i will never know unless i brave the apple store, because the screen i am viewing the new ipad on doesn't have the gazillions of pixels that the new one has. the new ipad (yes, that is what they are calling it, at least for now,) also has a much better camera. but really, who runs around taking photographs with their ipad??? i suppose if it were ever necessary to take photos with your ipad, it would be nice to have a good camera, but that is certainly not enough of an incentive for me to consider an upgrade. it is faster. four times faster, apparently. but unless you are a gamer or do video editing stuff, i'm not sure the faster speed would make that much difference...

... and yet i keep coming back to that screen. i spend a lot of time looking at my ipad every day, and to be honest, i would love, love, love that screen. i'm sure of it. so i'm looking at the prices, and i'm contemplating what i could sell my current ipad for, and i'm thinking maybe it is doable. and i am loving apple for making that beautiful screen available...

... and then apple cuts me off at the knees. because while they haven't raised the prices on their new ipad, they have cut the price on the ipad2 by $100! great. in a matter of minutes, my ipad is worth $100 less than it was yesterday! how could they do that to me?? how could they just take $100 right out of my hands??? don't they understand my economics?

now i sort of hate apple. i decide i am not giving them one more cent of my hard-earned money. i am just going to keep the ipad i have, which is perfectly capable of frustrating me, albeit at a much slower speed than the new one. and really, what will the new one do that mine won't? really not that much...

but it would sure look pretty doing it...

stop it! i hate apple. no new devices for me!!

and then, apple offers an apology. they release a new os, ready to go today. all those people getting new ipads have to wait and wait and wait until at least next weekend for their new and improved ipad, but i can get my new os today!

ok, apple, i accept your apology, but i still don't love you. you've annoyed me one time too many. what's that? you have something else for me? a new photo program that will finally do everything i've been looking for? and it only costs $4.99? and i can get it later today?? TODAY???

ok, fine. i love you again.

the only problem is, now that i have that great photo program, i might really need that high resolution screen on which to view my photos.

well played, apple, well played.