I am an Apple person. I got my first MAC way back in 1993. I had a hefty 8 mgs. of RAM and 500 mgs. of hard drive space. I was styling.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
In the last 17 years, I have had numerous MACs and one PC. I had to buy a PC to test what I was working on, it was clunky and I hated the interface. I have played with the idea to get an iPhone, the last in the Apple products I haven't purchased. My cellphone contract came up for renewal last week, and instead of waiting for the iPhone to launch on Verizon, I got a Droid instead. The Motorola Droid is a multi-media smart phone that runs Google's Android operating system, which is an open standards for mobile devices developed by Android and later purchased by Google and then by the Open Handset Alliance ( OHA is a business alliance of 65 firms for developing open standards for mobile devices.)
We don't need no thought control
I left the walled garden of Apple for the open spaces of Google. Why? If I loved Apple so much, why am I learning a new interface? Didn't I learn a lesson when I hacked my way through a Windows PC? What I realize now is that I cannot live within a world where the only flavor is Apple. I can shut myself off and keep saying to myself "its not friendly out there, don't even try to learn anything new.", but I can't. There are no more learning curves, it is a straight trajectory that continues to go higher and you have to fly with it or be left riding a vertical wave of "familiarity".
All in all you're not another brick in the wall
As I muddled my way through the interface on the Droid, I learned how to access information, how to upload contacts from my online backup, to how to Facebook photos I just took. Now I am a Droid lover. I am an Apple lover. I am Borg. A happy Borg that knows no boundaries. Resistance is futile and change is inevitable.
"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your cellphones. We will add your searches and Facebook friends to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile. We are open source." - The Borg (a modified quote from Star Trek: First Contact)
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Thank you Pink Floyd for Another Brick In The Wall, Part II
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Droid definitely presents an interesting predicament. I got my first Mac at the end of 1985 - 512K of RAM, 2 floppy disk drives. I had already worked on the first PC-compatibles, the Compaq "luggable," what we used to call the first portable that weighed in at nearly 20 pounds. I went through a series of Macs in the mid-to-late-80s into the mid-90s - Mac 512K to Mac SE to Mac IIci, the last being the workhorse that I used to write digital music software for Passport and Digidesign. I was a true believer, and then the Web hit. Not only did Mac browsers lag Windows versions, they eventually made my IIci obsolete by introducing a new chipset. So I went heavy Unix, with Windows laptops where the gig required...IBM, Cisco, etc. Soon, the client didn't matter because I was a server-side architect anyway. In mid-2007, on a whim, I got a MacBook Pro, partly because the OS comes with Linux embedded as a module. Need to ssh onto a remote server? Just fire up a terminal. Pretty seamless.
And yet. I got an iPhone at the end of '08, never a first i-adopter, since I was at least 2 years late to the iPod...me, the musician. Right away, I missed my Sony-Ericsson's agnostic bluetooth, better signal quality, better camera, etc., but I rationalized it because the iPhone looked so cool, and its apps quickly became part of my routine. Today, I used the Caltrain and BART apps all the time, as well as Facebook and all the usual suspects.
But....I'm a Web architect, and I still haven't written a line of code for the iPhone. Something about needing approval of anything I write...kind of puts me off, and I was a staunch Apple developer in the old days, paid money for the privilege. I'm pretty busy on a number of projects, but I do plan to write code for Droid. It's the open system I favor, even though the apps are nowhere near as rich as the iPhone's. Not yet, anyway..:)
/w
Great story Woody. I love my MacBook Pro, and all the other Apple stuff that clutters my desk. But as I looked around, I realized I was in a garden, a beautiful garden, but a garden with walls. I wanted to venture outside and see what the rest of the app world looked like. And other than buying a PC, I got the Droid instead. A much better choice....:O) ophelia
Great story Woody. I love my MacBook Pro, and all the other Apple stuff that clutters my desk. But as I looked around, I realized I was in a garden, a beautiful garden, but a garden with walls. I wanted to venture outside and see what the rest of the app world looked like. And other than buying a PC, I got the Droid instead. A much better choice....:O) ophelia
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Woody Lewis says :
Droid definitely presents an interesting predicament. I got my first Mac at the end of 1985 - 512K of RAM, 2 floppy disk drives. I had already worked on the first PC-compatibles, the Compaq "luggable," what we used to call the first portable that weighed in at nearly 20 pounds. I went through a series of Macs in the mid-to-late-80s into the mid-90s - Mac 512K to Mac SE to Mac IIci, the last being the workhorse that I used to write digital music software for Passport and Digidesign. I was a true believer, and then the Web hit. Not only did Mac browsers lag Windows versions, they eventually made my IIci obsolete by introducing a new chipset. So I went heavy Unix, with Windows laptops where the gig required...IBM, Cisco, etc. Soon, the client didn't matter because I was a server-side architect anyway. In mid-2007, on a whim, I got a MacBook Pro, partly because the OS comes with Linux embedded as a module. Need to ssh onto a remote server? Just fire up a terminal. Pretty seamless.
And yet. I got an iPhone at the end of '08, never a first i-adopter, since I was at least 2 years late to the iPod...me, the musician. Right away, I missed my Sony-Ericsson's agnostic bluetooth, better signal quality, better camera, etc., but I rationalized it because the iPhone looked so cool, and its apps quickly became part of my routine. Today, I used the Caltrain and BART apps all the time, as well as Facebook and all the usual suspects.
But....I'm a Web architect, and I still haven't written a line of code for the iPhone. Something about needing approval of anything I write...kind of puts me off, and I was a staunch Apple developer in the old days, paid money for the privilege. I'm pretty busy on a number of projects, but I do plan to write code for Droid. It's the open system I favor, even though the apps are nowhere near as rich as the iPhone's. Not yet, anyway..:)
/w