Will The Android Be The Worthy IPhone Nemesis?
The image and story first appeared at The Android Guys.
Adding to my recent tech woes (should I or should I not buy an iphone) comes the news about a new line of ipods launching in early September and now this post about the Android finally making it’s fourth quarter 2008 debut.
The pros:
1) T-Mobile. I love T-mobile’s service. It’s reasonably priced, the service has rarely let me down, customer service has always been dependable and it’s convenient for me.
2) Hopefully they’ll fix a lot of the “issues” that Mac has been receiving regarding their 2nd generation 3G iphone. The slow 3G on the iphone, the plethora of dropped calls, the low life of the battery, the screw ups with the launch of Apple’s MobileMe, etc. Apple stumbled hard quite a few times these last few months and the door is wide open for someone else to bring them back down to reality. Perhaps Google and T-Mobile can do it. Yes, this is just pure hopefulness on my part but everyone needs to dream right?
3) The Android could be the N’Sync to the iphone’s Backstreet Boys. Damn, that sounds way more fey than I ever thought it would. But you get the point.
4) Be a rebel. These iphone carrying bragging little shits who can’t stop checking shit on their iphones are some of the most annoying little shits in the world. “Hold on a sec bro, let me check that on my phone…”, “Hey, my iphone is also a lightsaber…”, “Hey, my iphone just gave me a happy ending…”.
The Cons:
1) I’m sorta OCD about certain things. If I buy a season of DVD’s for a show, I need to buy the future seasons. If I have a Sony TV, I need to get a Sony DVD player and a Sony game system. If I have a burrito for lunch, I need those damn chips and salsa. So since I have a Mac Powerbook Pro, I feel this need to keep things consistent. This is actually a bigger deal for me than I would like to admit.
2) Those design folks over at Mac do know how to make our gizmos look so sleek and cool! I’m not the biggest fan of the android design above. It looks like a sidekick f’d an iphone and this is what they produced.
3) I’m just giving up being just another iphone sheep to being just another google sheep.
So now, what then?
Basically, I’m going to wait until the end of the year to make my final decision.
Kind of a fizzle of an ending there.
(beat; crickets)
Shit, I’ve bored myself out just writing this post.
More to come.
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