Shot I Took of the Droid X Last Week
The Droid X is currently the most powerful smart phone on the Verizon network, no one will argue with that claim. What people do like to argue is that that the iPhone is the best phone on the market. I (since purchasing the Droid X) have freed myself from using the only device that Apple convinced me to buy, the iPod Touch. As an avid bastion of software and hardware freedom, I have long waited for the day that I wouldn’t have to use a product that was conceived and marketed by a man who some call tyrannous (Steve Jobs). The Droid X offers me that freedom! But, it isn’t the device that’s freed me, it’s Google. Google has single handedly created an operating system that trumps the rounded and polished iOS. It takes the things that iOS doesn’t allow and brings them to the forefront of it’s operating system. Most notably the advanced (and complicated) implementation of multi-tasking. It takes the inability of iOS to run widgets and shoves them on the home screens. It takes the red tape associated with developing and selling applications for iOS and lets you side-load apps. I could go on and on but, you get the picture!
People like to be treated like they are capable of understanding things. Apple’s stance is lets make it easy, lets take the guess work out of it, lets lock the software to the hardware. That sounds nice and all but what happens when Apple fails to exist? Will you know how to accomplish all of the things Apple has made so easy when the time comes to abandon the Apple ship? Everyone is quick to say Apple won’t fall but, look at what’s happened before when Steve Leaves (or dies from a reoccurrence of cancer). Look at Microsoft once Bill Gates left. They are currently a distant third behind Google and Apple in the tech industry. So while some hedge their bets on hard-fastened Apple mantra of “The Next Best Thing,” I’ll be sleeping with the competition.
A Google-Elite defines himself similar in manner to those who called themselves an elitist when they were using Mac before the iPod Made Apple. But, there are several caveats:
- They have no central-leader (many factions are harder to eradicate than one)
- They resort to forums over genius bars (large developer and active user community)
- They are unhindered by limited hardware (over-clocking is very possible)
- They prefer sweets to exotic cats (os naming schemes)
-Matt
[...] in grace -return period for Verizon) and exchanged it for the Droid X. Not to long after that I wrote a blog post with a photograph very similar to this one. The main difference is, in today’s photo there [...]