Team Google

I'm pretty agnostic when it comes to technology, deciding to use things depending on what is available or convenient or pretty. It's a formula that has worked so far (albeit with a few notable exceptions) and come to think about it, it's a pretty arbitrary formula because it isn't rooted in reason or logic.

So, I met Dom today, and I showed him the really cool CRT switch off animation (see below) that happens everytime the phone gets switched off, or put into lock mode - he was unimpressed. He likes his iPhone better. And he has a point. To be completely honest? I'd like the iPhone a LOT if I had one. It has sexy industrial design; it has a sexy OS that glides under your fingers; and it has heaps of apps (much more than Google phone has). My Google phone? It's not that bad, it doesn't work as well or as seamlessly as an iPhone (but only by a little). It's pretty sexy though.


So, CRT animation aside, why Google?

It was available, convenient and pretty.

Plus, it was free. Kind of (I'm on a contract).



Like Professor Higgins (see above), I've grown accustomed to my phone (well, he grew accustomed to Eliza Doolittle, so that's a little different). I don't mind the fact that Google is storing all my information (see XKCD comic below) when, in exchange, they give me an email service without equal, an operating system without cost, and a document service that allows me to work without physical boundaries. Maybe if Apple had gotten in first and I had bought an iPhone (or if Vodafone would stop being such scrooges and offer the iPhone for free on the $29 cap), I'd be writing a completely different blog post today.

So there you have it. Reasons, and, if not, the biggest reason - Google got in first and I grew accustomed to its face/data mining/CRT Animation. Plus it's Google and since I am no longer a technology journalist I can finally admit what I have always felt - I love Google. Google is great to interview (unlike Apple's cold-as-hell PR people) and I genuinely believe it is doing great things (even though it is not the awesome developer of stuff it used to to be - I mean these are the guys and girls who made Chrome - they should make more stuff).