Attention all.

Soon I’ll be uploading the first part of a story onto this blog for the whole Internet to read. It’s the first part out of god knows how many. Yeah, planning isn’t really my strong point. I’m going to try and do this with a whole ‘webisode’ model, where I’ll upload part of the story weekly, or biweekly, or whenever. Yeah. Planning.

Anyway, the premise is such, a traveller who doesn’t know how to travel ends up on a country, mounted on some metal, which is bolted to some engines. Oh, and the countryship is crashing. Into Jupiter. Will they escape? Be saved? Miracles? Who knows. Enjoy the snippet below, and watch this space.

It appeared to be night, and raising his head, he could clearly see the stars, even though they did look slightly distorted, as if a pane of glass had been placed miles above his head. “Bugger. This isn’t Oxford. This is absolutely nothing like Oxford.” He was right; the town was absolutely nothing like Oxford. Jacques, at a complete loss, spun briefly on his heel and picked a direction with a sharp point. “That way it is!” And so, he stalked off in roughly that direction. Before long though, he came to a complete stop. “That’s an elevator.” He spoke aloud, which helped gain him some odd looks from passers-by, who had never before seen such a brilliant display of obviousness.

And that’s a wrap.

Why Apple won before it even started fighting…

Okay, so. Apple iPhone – iPod – iPad – pretty much everything in Apples product range begins with an i. For all we know, they have iCEOs, and iExecutives. and if you don’t perform well enough you get made iRedundant. But, the thing is, whether it was the naming convention, or the products, Apple has pretty much won over the phone/media player market, and is now encroaching on a market that didn’t even exist a few years ago, with the iPad. And, because Apple got there first, getting these new ‘tablet’ thingies out to the public, in a readily, available way, just like it did with it’s iPod and, to a lesser extent, it’s iPhone, we are now going to have to listen to several years of reviewers going on about whether this new tablet idea, or that new tablet idea will be able to compete with the iPad.

I mean, even today, most mp4 players are compared against Apples mighty iPod, and the first line usually relates to whether ‘it can compete with the iPod.’ The same thing’s happened with the iPhone, pretty much all new ‘superphones’ are compared against Apples iPhone, and often come off worse. And that’s why Apple’s already won. Because every new product is instantly compared against the iPhone/iPod/iWhateverthehell

Okay, I’m coming off pretty anti-Apple here.Maybe I am – I never really did like the look of Apples products, but you can’t deny the fact that Apple’s doing something right to be able to attract so many customers. Still, I can’t envisage myself holding any kind of Apple product any time soon. Unless, of course, it’s the crunchy, fruity kind.