Tag: Android

  • Platform Interchange

    Platform Interchange

    I suppose that the “Slippery Slope” phenomenon applies to me right now.  A chink in my Apple armor developed some time ago.  Then I got out of the iPhone world all together, which amazed me as much as it did my friends. The recent maturity of Google’s cloud services (Photos, Drive, Music, etc.) had a considerable…

  • From iOS to Android, part 2: ecosystem shock

    From iOS to Android, part 2: ecosystem shock

    Last time, I talked about two key aspects of technology that tend to make loyal customers: platform ecosystem and user experience. It was a natural transition from owning Macs for the better part of a decade to iPods and then finally iPhones.  Apple has done well to keep the user experience very fairly consistent between…

  • From iOS to Android, part 1

    From iOS to Android, part 1

    You read that right.  I’ve made the switch.  Got rid of my iPhone(s) and careened over into Android territory.  And so far, the grass is still pretty green over here.