Not to mention the double irony of people whining incessantly about people whining incessantly about "whiners."
Or the triple irony of people whining incessantly about people whining incessantly about people whining incessantly about "whiners".
We could do this all day!
What you're forgetting though, is that there's a difference between whining for the sake of it (which I don't like either), and raising legitimate concerns. Obviously, fanboys (or fangirls) see *all* form of criticism to be "whining", I mean how dare anyone say something negative about Apple or any of their products, this is a sin!!
See how easy it is to embrace something demonstrably false when you start out by anthropomorphizing a corporation. As long as you think Apple is a person, I suppose it's reasonable to conclude that a global manufacturing effort has responded in less than two months to your whining in a thread. All that matters is that you believe it, because if you believe it, it is real.
Eh? Good heavens, you're really scraping the barrel here, are you just being argumentative for the sake of it, or to prove that you know the word anthropormorphisation? (well done, "have a cookie" as they say over there)
Believe it or not, there are actually real people working for that corporation. Perhaps what's getting lost in the translation here is that it's perfectly acceptable English to refer to a company as "they" or "Apple are". It's only the Americans who refer to companies as single entities.
Clarification for those who are blind to anything but their own exact semantics: "The whole reason you have an iPod Touch in the first place was because so many people "whined" that they wanted an iPhone without a phone, that
the people working for Apple
departments such as Customer Relations and Product Development (a handful of whom are almost certainly monitoring at least their own forums, if not others such as MacRumors) realised that there was heavy demand for what would later become an iPod Touch."
Better?!
And damn right they did it in 2 months. They already had most of the parts and design, and have proven that they didn't spend long on it (examples include a dialog in Safari that someone mentioned which includes the word "iPhone" by accident, poor quality control, etc)
The evolution of religious thought: no longer is it about explaining natural disaster and human mortality, but corporate strategy in Cupertino, and next generation iPods.
Heh, perhaps - for religious fanatics who worship Lord Jobs of Apple and start mouthing off at anyone who dares to say a word against them. Remind you of anyone?
