iPhone 6 versus Android phones
Exactly a week ago, Apple through its new CEO Tim Cook formally unveiled its newest product, the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus. Naturally android users (android is used by Samsung, LG, Sony, and many more) came up with a sarcastic greeting to Apple users, "Welcome to the world of Android." That's because they say that most of the supposedly new features of the iPhone 6 have already been in use by Android users. They are right.
Well, a few days ago, Apple made this announcement, "Apple today announced it has sold over 10 million new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models, a new record, just three days after the launch on September 19. iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore, and the UK and will be available in more than 20 additional countries on September 26. The new iPhones will be available in 115 countries by the end of the year. Sales for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus exceeded our expectations for the launch weekend, and we couldn't be happier." Yes, Apple is grinning ear-to-ear all the way to the bank!
That report only showed that Apple is still the gadget to beat despite being late in having large phones! Being a bit of a techie, I too want to grab an iPhone 6 Plus, after all it is bigger than my iPhone 5S, however I can wait. Mind you, I also have a Samsung S-4 Zoom, which has some battery heating problems. But thanks to Samsung's Service Center in JY Square, they told me that they would reimburse me for that defect.
I guess the battle of the best gadget is fought not only in the new products that come out, but more importantly, if those products fail, that there is a Service Center that would fix the problem. I used to have a Blackberry phone, but the camera broke and Blackberry didn't have a service center here. I immediately got a Samsung phone. Yes the reason why I keep an iPhone and an Android is to ensure myself that I will never be left behind in the new cellular technology.
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We're still in the midst of the Cebu Media's 20th anniversary of Press Freedom Week and if we've been writing about how inefficient and corrupt the government has been under the leadership or lack of leadership of Pres. Benigno Aquino III it is because that's the job of a journalist to write the things that he sees or hears, while most of the citizenry go about their daily fare, often times unaware of government's inadequacies.
What I find appalling is that Filipinos, yes including us Cebuanos seem nonchalant about what's happening around them. This is almost exactly the very same reason why the conjugal Marcos Dictatorship lasted for 14 years after his 8-year legal stint as President because the Filipino people didn't care to fight for their freedoms. Twenty-eight years after the EDSA Revolt ousted the Marcos Dictatorship and supposedly restored our freedoms, yet today the nation unknowingly is being strangled to poverty by an uncaring Political Elite that took liberties over our nation's coffers… and yet they give out excuses even when they have violated the constitution.
That incident that happened over the weekend when Budget Secretary Florencio Abad was accosted, manhandled and pelted with coins by irate UP students should not be blamed on the students. Sec. Abad should have known better not to accept speeches in UP and defend the indefensible Disbursement Acceleration Program even after the Supreme Court has already declared it as unconstitutional. If I was in UP at that time and I had a rotten tomato in my hands, I would have thrown it in Abad's face.
Sec. Abad obviously does not know what our students of today know about the way they run the government. I'm sure that only a few of those students even read newspapers. But certainly they get their information from the social networking sites where a trove of information can be had. That naked statue in front of the main building in UP called the Oblation, shows a naked man… which signifies that in UP you will be undressed when you speak before students who can immediately tell whether you were lying or not. That's what angered those UP students against Sec. Abad.
With the three impeachment case filed against Pres. Benigno Aquino III, thrown out of Congress even without a single debate on whether there was prima facie evidence to impeach the President, what are the options left for our indignant students? The presence of Sec. Abad in UP provided them a chance to release their anger on Sec. Abad who is so close to Pres. PNoy, which is why he cannot fire him.
I see in the eyes of those angry students from UP a better future ahead for our youth…that they will no longer take things lying down. The Aquino Regime better shape up while they still can or those students will march all the way to Malacañang and bodily remove those corrupt officials!
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