Coming Soon!
My name is Adam. I have been an android user since 2009 and a BB user before that. I have, however, owned and used a macbook since mid 2007. I've hopped back and forth between using linux, windows and os x before I settled on os x as my default. I avoided the iPhone at first because of its limitations. I was intrigued by the touchscreen interface and built in iPod functionality. I was not switching carriers for it though. AT&T was never an option. I always respected how apple really focused on the user experience first. I used to hate the idea of a closed ecosystem, but after seeing what happens in the android ecosystem I'll take apple's any day. In android, all the cool apps are either iOS ports that come really late, or pipe dreams that never see the light of day. Device incompatibility is a big deal. I never know how a game or app will run on my device, even if it says its compatible. Talk about a way to waste money! And then there is the lack of updates that forces even more app incompatibility, and while rooting and custom roms do help, there is always a trade-off with the stock software, usually battery life which is already terrible anyways. I just want a platform that cares about user experience (which google is starting to, i know), uniform app compatibility (if you're on their latest hardware) and I want to be where the devs are. The rules in apple's ecosystem are what make the quality of the user experience so good, and coming from android I can really see where the platform struggles. The entire android philosophy of choice, meaning tons of different handsets to choose from, is its fundamental flaw. There is no unified experience there. Now with that said, I'm glad that it exists as some people need that choice and customization, and the competition it fosters with apple and win phone. With all of this said, I can't wait for the new iPhone to launch so that I can become a full time iOS user!