I must confess I love my Apple products. Not as much as my wife, my children or my grandchildren (yeah, other family as well, fill in the blank) but I do have a very deep personal (though platonic) relationship with my MacBook Pro and iPods. I think it may be an addiction but I don't care.
Besides the products, I love the way Apple markets its products. Without hardly spending a dollar they verbally leak some vague details about something and before you know it is a news item on every news hour in first and second world. I don't think the third world cares. They are having enough trouble feeding themselves. That truth should shut me up but it doesn't.
The much rumored tablet that Apple is supposed to announce soon has had as much written about it as the second coming of Jesus (maybe not that much but it is close, and so maybe the coming of Jesus). Just a few well placed conversations (no paper trail) and the geek world is all blogging itself within an inch of it's life. Amazing. Ingenious. Cheap.
Of course, they have to come up with the products otherwise would no one would care.
Is there something here we could learn to propagate the good news of Jesus who is the only one who really works and doesn't need a 3 year Applecare contract.
