The Apple-Google shift
Elliot Jay Stocks
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I have sat here reading through this article and all of the responses. I am not a software developer or a hardware developer. I am a bike mechanic that just wants the device to work. I just want it to do what I need it to do. Pick it up use it put it down. Pick it up use it put it down. Pick it up use it put it down. Pick it up use it put it down. Pick it up use it put it down. Pick it up use it put it down. Do this day in day out without so much as a flicker from the screen for years. I have tools in the shop that are older than most of you reading this. They have worked for decades without fail. They will continue to do so for decades more. I have coworkers that have android phones. All of them have talked about them crashing. Though my Iphone 5c has not been immune from the occasional hiccup. Just turning it off and back on has cleared it up every time. It was always an app that was having the problem not the phone itself. I don’t give a rats ass about innovation if I pick it up and it doesn’t work. What I have seen and heard about android makes me think I have seen all of this before. An operating system that works on every body else’s hardware. We will make the software you can make the hardware. Wow that sounds just like the proposal that some guy made to IBM way back when. Yea there’s innovation for you. Encase you are wondering I am writing this on a Dell studio PC running Windows Vista. It is eight years old now and still running just fine. I don’t want to work on the machine. I want the machine so I can do my work.