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i live with an apple addict
Last night my husband turned to me and said, “Do you want to see the latest Apple product that I will soon want to buy?”
And by “soon,” my husband means, “immediately.”
“Is it an iHouse? Because unless Apple makes a 4 bedroom house, close to town with a nice backyard, I’m not really interested.” Did I mention that we are only renting and our lease is up soon and well, we could really use a place to live?
“It’s not a house. It’s the iPad. It’s amazing. Look at what it does.” And with that, I was forced to watch some British guy give me a tutorial on Apple’s latest hyped product with the stupidest name ever.
“Was the name iTampon already taken?” (And with that comment, I become the 1,800,457th woman to utter that joke on the very same day.) Clearly, Apple does not have a lot of women on its executive roster list. Oh wait, make that none.
Or maybe that was the Apple strategy. Create a lot of menstruation buzz in the hopes that women will run out and buy the iPad as part of their sanitary protection plan. Steve Jobs is a very smart guy. If anyone is going to sell new technology for private lady parts, it’s this guy.
But Rick could care less about the name, he is so jazzed up. Because somehow the iPad is going to fill the sad, empty gap in his life that his Mac desktop, iPhone and iPod have somehow been unable to fill.
“Honey, this is going to revolutionize how people get their news.”
“But I just like my home delivery of the New York Post. Why does everything have to be online?! Can’t I just read my newspaper and be left alone?”
I don’t even think my husband can hear me.
“This is an incredible. I can’t wait to get this.”
I just hope Apple starts building affordable houses in Westchester. So we can live in our iHouse with our iChildren and be iHappy.
mama bird notes:
This year Blogher ’10 is in a little neighborhood called New York City. Aunt Becky, Marinka, Wendi, and I (of The Mouthy Housewives and Mommy Wants Vodka) have put in for a Room of our Own on how to create a successful advice site. We’ll talk about how to handle every question out there from broken zippers to broken marriages with sensitivity and humor while making some cash too! It will be funny and entertaining and we might smuggle in vodka.
But we need your vote. PLEASE. I’ll give you a personal tour of New York City. I swear. Just click here, log on to Blogher and then click “I would attend this session” (it’s just above the title: Dear Abby 2.0). Thank you!!
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Since I WILL attend that session – I will absolutely vote.
Unless the iPad helps me deal with the monthly hemorrhage that I now enjoy, courtesy of my iUD – then I’m not interested. I get all my news from US Weekly anyway (you think I’m kidding?)
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I read your headline and thought you were referring to fruit. Silly me.
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I totally don’t need an iPad but it does look fancy and fabulous. I love Apple.
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There is something to be said for old fashioned paper, I have to say. But then, I like books.
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Rick and my daughter have a lot in common. This shouldn’t scare either one of us, but I bet it does.
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My husband drools over all things Apple. But, thankfully he doesn’t have to be immediately gratified. He refuses to buy the iPhone because AT&T can suck it. And he’s reduced to complaining that his PowerBook (I think that’s what he has) is old and slow. It’s not slow; it’s perfectly fine for web browsing, which is pretty much all he uses it for!
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My husband is an Apple guy as well. He’s been drooling over the iPad and declaring that it will revolutionize the world. He said the same thing about Apple TV which I unfortunately let him talk me into purchasing 3 years ago and now collects dust in our TV cabinet.
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I really don’t get the iPad name. The menstruation link is likely totally against what Apple was going for. It serves them right for either not listening to the woman who stood up and said it was a ridiculous name OR for not having any women on the branding team! It will be interesting to see if they succomb to pressure and change the name.
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I’m waiting for the iDivaCup.
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My husband was quizzing me as to whether I wanted one. I think he secretly wants one, but he can’t have one because he doesn’t have a job.
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If I attend this year (with a 3 month old I’m just not sure, even though I already have my tix!) I will definitely attend this session. Voted at blogher for you!
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Voting done
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iChuckle
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Well at least people in ypur family like fruit, oh wait ifruit. I guess that is not the same. And by the way. Unless I cannot count a 5 bedroom ihouse would be better for you
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the stupidest name EVER!!! those imen at apple do NOT have their pulse on the female perspective!! i don’t want my electronics to remind me of my iperiod, i mean period! the apple guys are retarded! didn’t someone clue into this, no one mentioned that this name might be a little weird???
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We get The Week & The Nation, as we live in OC our local isn’t worth reading.
I am a big apple fan too, but, the name was silly.
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OMG, I just looked at getting one of those. They are pretty neat. I you get one you will have to tell us if its worth the $.
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Do check out yesterday’s NPR story on MAD TV and the name i-PAD.
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Oh, dear. In this household, I play the part of your husband the tech enthusiast and my husband tries to stifle the yawns.
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I’ve already voted!!! Cannot wait BlogHer10 NYC!
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I’m with your husband on this one. And not just because we are both Camp Haarlem alums…
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I don’t want an ipad, but every year, I want the new Macbook Pro. Even thought I’m typing on one right now…I want the next one:P
I would totally live in an ihouse:)
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ipad what a stupid name I can’t believe apple. My daughter just got a Mac laptop and now is looking at me for the ipad….NO!
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I feel your pain really because my Husband is exaclty the same. As far as he is concerned Apple can do no wrong and any product they invent must be an essential.
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It looks like a giant iTouch, which we already have two of. Hubby says we have to wait on the “iLadyProduct” as he fondly calls it.
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I want an iPad too. despite the fact that a) it has the stupidest name ever and b) i have no need for one.
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Voted! Many thanks for supporting mine too.
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An IPad…I think they should stop and wait a while before releasing something else.
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iHearyou!
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as soon as i heard about it, i called it the MAXI PAD, but i’m probably the 123,456th women to do that too!
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Too funny! I read in the papers that in some places (like Boston), the way the locals pronounce iPad and iPod are basically the same. Oops. That could get confusing. iLaugh!
-Deb
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I subscribe to the ‘buy everything you want and nothing you need-like food and pay lights bills-theory’. I love techy stuff. Not because I am so well versed in it all, I just have Veruca Salt syndrome.
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