Stephen Fry has taken to blogging with an essay on the state of smartphones. It seems his opinions on these matters are essentially the same as my own (which of us had them first is a matter for the courts to decide), though he is of course far more eloquent in expressing them, the perfect example of which is below:

We know that sick building syndrome is real, and we know what an insult to the human spirit were some of the monstrosities constructed in past decades. An office with strip lighting, drab carpets, vile partitions and dull furniture and fittings is unacceptable these days, as much perhaps because of the poor productivity it engenders as the assault on dignity it represents. Well, computers and SmartPhones are no less environments: to say “well my WinMob device does all that your iPhone can do” is like saying my Barratt home has got the same number of bedrooms as your Georgian watermill, it’s got a kitchen too, and a bathroom.” [...] We spend our lives inside the virtual environment of digital platforms – why should a faceless, graceless, styleless nerd or a greedy hog of a corporate twat deny us simplicity, beauty, grace, fun, sexiness, delight, imagination and creative energy in our digital lives? And why should Apple be the only company that sees that? Why don’t the other bastards GET IT??

To my mind this is what every Mac user finds themselves thinking, if they dwell on the matter. Finally, a way to express this frustration to other, normal people.