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Wait, explain it to me once more….
xkcdexplainedexplainedexplained:
A female is seen giving technical advice to a male who is attempting to decide which of two smart phones, the Apple iPhone or the Motorola Droid, to purchase. After the female finishes describing the high-level differences between the two devices, the male questions the very nature of his predicament. He wonders if and how he can rid his life of consumerism and the constant desire for the latest gadget, allowing more of his time to be spent on productive endeavors.
The male then pauses, and delivers a humorous cliche in the form of a modification on the now famous Apple advertisement line, “There’s an app or that.”
In a surprise twist, the knowledgeable and confident female character then states that both smart phones do, in fact, “have an app for that.” This is funny because that kind of application could not actually exist.
Then, in an even more comical twist, the female corrects her previous statement by revealing that the iPhone version of the app has been rejected. Based on this new information, the male decides to purchase the more geek-friendly Droid - despite his earlier wishes to live free from electronic devices.
This last scene is humorous because of the widely held belief that Apple frequently rejects applications during their approval process, a belief popularized by bloggers whose applications were rejected by Apple.
How do the XKCD Explained guys know all this stuff? Seriously, I’m way out of my league here. All I know about the iPhone is that the network is preposterously inadequate, and I only know that because I have one. All I know about the Droid is that the commercials are really dramatic. I just want my RAZR to have more than two hours worth of battery on it and to no longer be held together by a Fleet Foxes sticker so I can use it again instead. Smart phones suck.
This chronicler believes that the use of the “belief” conceit in the original explaination has now been taken to an illogical level, as the phrase “the widely held belief that Apple frequently rejects applications during their approval process, a belief popularized by bloggers whose applications were rejected by Apple.” contains not only the concept of “belief” in this fabled rejection by apple but the evidence that Apple does, in fact, reject applications from the App Store. The Belief, in this case, would be that Apple’s rejection process appears entirely arbitrary as it is entirely opaque to the developer community, though that isn’t referred to.
Upon the nature of the metaexplaination, this author feels the need to point out that he also has an iPhone, that the Apple bits are fine, though the O2 bits suck goats though fine gauze, and that he will never be able to get a Droid on his phone contract because his network rejected it from the UK market for not being pretty enough.
The author is not joking.
The author does also have opinions on razr phones in specific, having not only had to use one, but also to make sites and stuff work on them, and has come to the conclusion that his opinions on any and all razr phones should not be aired here, as it would violate his self-imposed PG-13 rating for these reviews.
He does approve of the Fleet Foxes sticker, however.
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