The Other Side of the Wall
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)
Image: Ophelia Chong / The Future of OC
Thank you Pink Floyd for Another Brick In The Wall, Part II