Thanks for posting this. This was actually a good article. Lately, I've been turning off technology also. It does let you think more creatively. I felt like I came up with some pretty good plans of action in my life in the past month that I've turned it off. It also made me realize a lot of things.

It was a good article because for once a man who purchased an Apple product showed some intelligence and returned the product. Smartest thing ever, but still a hipster brainwashed zombie who bought the dang thing. Can't say for sure, but I bet most of the Wall St protestors are Apple uses. Apple products are so cool and desirable that Apple gets a free ride for being the titans of corporate greed: Overcharge for products (but unemployed people still need them), manufacture overseas at slave wages, non compatible with Flash so can't watch good porn on iPads, have that annoying Peter Coyote narrate their commercials, take full credit for inventing stuff they did not invent put only changed the "wrapper" on, fuck over developers, do not support corporate giving in any form while sitting on 50 billion in cash, ruined conceptual albums by turning the music business into buying 2:30 second singles like we bought 45's as kids, build in obsolescence so there is a new product cycle every 18 months forcing hipsters to dump their old perfectly useable iPhone for the newest model so as to stay hip (really environmentally friendly), claim to connect the world but in fact manufacture devices that act as a buffer to true human interaction, encourage their lemming buyers to feel superior to anyone who would think of using a PC, cultivate a cult of personality around Jobs, oh yeah, and then have the nerve to call the whole enterprise MAGICAL! Apple is the greatest toy company of all time and maybe the most clever. I'll give them that. Steve Jobs was nothing special other than a promoter/salesman, now that he's gone hopefully the company will tumble and fall and technology will benefit rather than be held back by "innovation and design" </truth>