Perhaps some of the handsets released are not as sexy as the iPhone. None of the so-called “benefits” of an Apple device or operating system did anything for me, as any modern Linux “just works” right out of the box on the hardware I have and with tools like the apt system and a very large package repository, Ubuntu is much easier to maintain, keep up to date and secure - for *all* of my software, not just the core software.Sure the Android may be behind and not have 85,000 apps. Day to day, my Linux desktop is so much easier for me to run and to use. I spent six months trying to use a Mac Book Pro as my primary computing environment and gladly gave it up and went back to Linux when the particular job that gave me it was finished. They may not be as “sexy” as the things sold by Apple, but I would still take them any day over the Apple line of products. Often these choices are not based on necessarily pragmatic things in the eyes of others - on one extreme, look at Richard Stallman for a fine example.For me, the tools I use are Linux on my desktop and an Android phone in my pocket. We each choose our hardware and software tools based on how it meets our needs and the particular set of problems and benefits that they give. ![]() I had a very long reply written, but I decided it wasn't worth it.No platform is perfect. Sorry to Nokia, Palm, Microsoft, RIM, and all the other players. So, that’s HUNDREDS of new reasons every day that I will remain unreasonable. Oh, and I met the guy who runs the iPhone app team (he asked to remain anonymous) and he told me his team approves hundreds of new apps every day. Let me know when I can stop being unreasonable! □ Now I’m sure you’ll say you have an app like RedLaser on your device, right? (I’ve seen similar on Nokia devices, for instance) But do you have all the others I use? Oh, did you see this app called “RedLaser?” You point your phone at barcodes, and it gives you information about the products you are looking at, including what the price is on. Until then I have 85,000 reasons to be unreasonable. If you get me all those, and all the other 85,000 apps, but on a device that is sexier and more fun to use (and more productive) then I’ll definitely be reasonable and switch. Or I want to use Yelp’s app to find a great restaurant. Or, I want to watch Leo Laporte’s show this afternoon (or more accurately, listen to it on my Prius thanks to UStream’s app). My entire flight information is stuck inside there. Or, I want my TripIt app on Android or Nokia before I’ll switch. I have lots of books that I’ve invested in that I can read on my iPHone. No, Joe, I just want my Kindle app on Android before I’ll switch. Joe Wilcox, on Twitter, says that iPhone users are “beyond reason.” So, what the other manufacturers are hoping is that enough users remain ignorant of all the uses of the apps and that they get enough of them built either by themselves (not gonna happen) or by developers outside the company before Apple just locks in everyone. I’m not going to be switching anytime soon, and neither are you. Do you have that? And so on and so forth. ![]() Let’s say you do that.īut do you have my favorite game? Tap Tap Revenge?ĭo you have Facebook? Do you have Photoshop? Just today NASDAQ came out with a cool new app. So, now you’ll have to build an app, or get a third-party developer to build an app that works better. (I do have a second SIM, though, waiting, just in case that I use to test phones).īecause I’ve grown addicted to Tweetie. Would it get me to switch away from my iPhone? Probably not, truth be told. Something, say, that’s half the thickness of the iPhone, has a screen that’s sharper, and the battery lasts twice as long, oh, and let’s just say it costs $50 less than buying an iPhone. ![]() Let’s say that a Chinese manufacturer ships an Android phone that makes me hot and bothered. So, to get me off of the iPhone you are going to have to duplicate all my apps (and I’ve gotten several more since doing this list a couple of weeks ago). You can see this on Appsfire’s VIP list (my iPhone apps are listed there, along with a number of others). Here’s why: everyone is using a different set of 20 apps. That’s true, but now that Apple has apps the world has changed and challengers to the iPhone will find it very tough. Here’s Matt Blaisdell saying that apps weren’t key to iPhone’s success. ![]() There’s nothing geeks love more than to argue mobile phone platforms.
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