they are talking about the slaying of the anti-Christ? I just sat
through six minutes of some tech nerd on TV talking about the Android
operating system and it's superiority to Apple's iPhone. Some yuppie
with a suit and a pony tail talking about how useless most of the Apps
on the iPhone are, and how Android has "all the good stuff." Cut your
fucking hair rockstar, then MAYBE I'll listen to you babble about
Google being the Apple of this decade. Weren't the pony tail wearing
douchebags the ones that kept Apple alive in the first place?
First off, I am the last guy on Earth that should be singing the
praises of the iPhone.
For the longest time I refused to get any Apple product. I hated their
interface (One Mouse Button, WTF?!?!?), their design, and their
marketing. I wouldn't buy anything they made, and I was pretty
confident that would never change.
Then a while back something happened. A lot of friends who work for
Microsoft all went to the iPhone. Not just a few of them, but pretty
much everyone went out and bought an Apple product. Microsoft
employees... Apple product...
So I played with the phone for a bit and realized that this thing was
seriously good. The interface is simple enough that my computer-
illiterate mom finds the phone to be "fun," and yet complex enough to
be rewarding to the user who likes to change around features and
functions. After that I had to buy one myself.
And of course, this makes everyone think that I have just jumped on
the Apple bandwagon. That statement couldn't be further from the
truth...
I still hate their computers and the associated commercials with a
passion. I actually told my best friend that she was an idiot for
spending $2000 on a MacBook Pro that does LESS that my $1500 Toshiba
Tablet PC. Which is a BA computer, and the tablet functions still
impress two years after it came out...
Even iTunes pisses me off. My music is all bought on disc and saved to
my PC. I just transfer a copy to my iPhone AND a copy to my Microsoft
Zune. As a portable music player, I still think of the Zune as a
superior product, and it accompanies me to the gym and in the car.
The point of the above ranting being that as an "all in one", Apples
iPhone is superior to everything else I have ever used. It may not be
the best computer (got a different one), or music player (got a
different one), but when I need to leave the house with one thing in
my pocket, it's iPhone. Not my iPhone, or an iPhone, just "iPhone."
The thing is good enough that I will refer to it in the third person
like it's a pro athlete.
Let's take a look at the previous contenders for iPhone killer:
The G1... Already on the G2 (called something else in America), and
that isn't hugely popular.
The Palm Pre... Hahahaha... Seriously, when the "next generation" of
the phone is called the Pixie, you should know it's a dog.
The Droid... To big, to bulky, and has totally failed to get the jump
on the market even with Moto and Verizion shoveling money into
marketing the thing during it's holiday season launch.
The Nexus 1... Time will tell. I'm thinking that it's going to be a dog.
The big thing being Android... Here's where that falls apart.
My buddy Mike's Cliq uses Android. His roommates HTC Touch Pro uses
Android. And yet for some reason an App written for and running on the
Cliq crashed the HTC. Differing versions of the same OS... Apples
product works so well because there is ONE product. Different pieces
of the same pie (2G, 3G, 3GS, and even the regluar iPod/iPod Touch),
vs different pieces of similar pies. At the end of the day if it isn't
identical it isn't going to work 100% of time.
As always, the above is an opinion. And educated one, from someone who
has used multiple devices in the past year, but an opinion
nonetheless. :-)
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