Much as I love the 'droids, I have come to the conclusion that they just aint there yet. Sure, the Nexus One is full on Google but moving across the landscape from Acer (Liquid) to Dell (Streak) to Samsung (Galaxy S), one thing sticks out in my mind - these guys over promise and under deliver. This means you have to fall back to the modding community, which is great n' all, but with more stressful things about to kick off over the next few months I really don't want to be dicking about with custom Froyo and Gingerbread ROMs - I need a tool that just works with minimal effort. I might whine on (and on) about iTunes but I have 5,822 tunes in there and 148 apps. It's slow, sure, but effortless and reliable. Shit, I even use MS Office for business, is that such a crime.
What's weirded me out is after mucking around with a friend who is an Apple diehard (we were testing out Facetime, I was using the OS X beta version) and then cursiously going back to my kid's iPod Touch 2G for a play I had an epiphany - Apple really do know their design shit.
I mean, I knew that already of course.
But after 10 months of Android system level tinkering it just became instantly apparent after 'slide to unlock' on the iPod Touch that this was a device for using, no tinkering required. I may have saved myself from impulse buying loads more iPhone apps over the last year, but instead spending time rather than money on maintaining the 'droids. And basically having no fun. I mean, that nails it. Dicking around with apps on the iPhone is fun. Dicking around with custom Android ROMs is a little tedious after several months.
So for the same reasons I can't be arsed to jailbreak iDevices, I can't be arsed to continually chase the perfect Android experience and never be finding it. I need to save that time and spend it elsewhere.
Therefore, tonight I am trading money for convenience. I still intend to keep the Apple fanboys honest mind you.
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