I felt compelled to cook this post(after my inevitable leave of absence) especially because i'm seeing brand new devices being announced in 2014 as you'd expect. The blood feud between android and iOS and of course blackberry has been brewing a lot of demented comments and reactions. People get all hot and bothered regarding their specific affiliations with different brands, you might be one of those people. This post is an attempt to cool things down a little bit before all these new coverage hits.
I think its a bit ridiculous to get that attached to an inanimate object, a phone. I have a couple of them. I want to address, yeah, people who get crazy with it to the point where they are saying things completely unrelated to the actual device, where they just get personal with it and angry about it.
Let's get specific, let's talk about android, let's talk iOS. These are two platforms that are booming. They dominate the space, in fact they have pretty much destroyed all of their other competitors as far as what people might want to carry in their pockets. Both, incredibly successful and i think we can safely say both owe something to the other platform. Let me tell you what i mean by that. Innovation is not something that happens in a vacuum, its something that happens culturally, across the board. Somebody does something better and others learn from it and then they implement some of those ideas into things that they are doing.
Now one of the most common criticism you'll see from people when they are talking about another platform that they dislike is, "Oh, that particular feature was copied from this(their) platform". Now think about this for a minute, how ridiculous is it to get upset about that? All the greatest things in life come from being competent enough to see a change and say, "Oh, that's better, lets do it that way". If it was Agriculture or Farming and some dude down the road, his corn is 10ft taller and you are like, "Okay? What do i need to do to make my corn like that?". Its the exact same thing in technology, if you want to be a fan of something, be a fan of TECHNOLOGY, be a fan of progress in general. Don't be a fan of a logo, that doesn't help you, doesn't help us, doesn't help the entire ecosystem. Brands can tell you otherwise. Brands would tell you, this is special, this is unique, you need to be affiliated with us and attached to us forever and always but the truth is that's in their best interest. Your best interest is to be loyal to other human beings. Don't be loyal to some pieces of metal, glass and plastic and microchips and things like that.
If somebody or some platform builds on top of another, thats a good thing, for all of us, applaud it, be happy about it. Now when this Blackberry and Android and iOS devices launch, i guarantee you people will be saying there hasn't been enough change, they haven't improved enough things on this device. Change is not always a necessity. Change for the sake of change can actually be a problem and sometimes forced change due to pressures can actually make things worse. We live in a beautiful world with many different options, lets continue to move in that direction instead of getting stuck down in the trenches.
Anyways guys i'm motivated about this, maybe too motivated about it but i have a unique perspective giving what i do on a day to day basis and perhaps what i read too so i don't want to influence you too much on this. Don't take this for gospel, if you want to make your choice and take this into consideration that would be appreciated because i put some thoughts into this and i felt compelled to write this post.
That wraps up this post. I hope i flush in some rational thoughts on anything soon.
Later!!!
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