Anyone else pick up the new Verizon DROID?

Originally Posted by MightyBobo

No worries about hijacking, a good debate never hurt anyone.

It all boils down to the dumb-ing down of society, IMHO. Ive been using PC's for far too long, and when I jump on a Mac, I feel like I need to go full retard. That's Apples goal: how can we make this so simple and intuitive that ANYONE can use it. Great...but I'm not "anyone", not to toot my own horn. I WANT ****-tons of features and to be able to hack the crap out of it. I don't want my hands tied because Apple says so.

The way you're viewing it seems rather simplistic to be honest - "nothing works as well as the iPhone" - how so? Blackberries are amazing pieces of machinery in a very tiny package. The reason the iPhone is so popular has a LOT more to do with the simply fact that to many, its a status symbol. But for doing actual work and productivity things, the Blackberry will probably rape face. My Curve 8330 was awesome, and seeing as I don't need all the cheese-ball apps that the iPhone has, what did I care? So, ask yourself this - if you took away all the silly apps from the iPhone and the Blackberry, what are you left with? One is a toy, and one is a tool.

BTW, your hardware surviving that long means nothing to me lol - my sister is using a laptop of mine that is almost 7 years old now, and its still amazing. Yeah, its not the BEST spec-wise of course, but it still runs, and its plenty fast for her.

I will give you this however - you are very correct, that the iPhone is making companies look again, at how we look at cell phones. Everything is so mobile now, its scary.

Originally Posted by bigaudiofanat

Very Very good argument! I have to agree with you on the fact that mac's are simple to use. But they also include a lot of cool stuff. Like there iphoto has built in face recognition that automatically looks at your photos and adds photos with peoples faces into their own little folder. Let's not forget about itunes and how that made music organizing very nice and simple to find whatever you wanted. Yes they did make things simple but in today's society with people wanting things to not only work but be fast and reliable. Microsoft shoots themselves in the foot every chance they can. They tinker with stuff and move stuff around just to do it. I mean honestly from the change from XP to vists it took me 5 minutes to change my control panel to the old style. Also Office I mean come one I am certified in Office but the new one made me feel like a complete moron and could not find the things that I was looking for. That is how they lose people. They mess with stuff just to fiddle. But yes I agree with what you are saying. I will also say that it is very scary that we are getting this mobile. +1 for you.

Originally Posted by MightyBobo

This is all very true, and I appreciate Apple doing a lot of outside-the-box thinking. Unfortunately it always looks bad on the PC world to grab the really neato stuff and cram it into their own things, but in reality, I dont doubt that other companies are trying to develop similar things - maybe their execution is just different or not as well received as Apples is.

Like I said, Apple is masterful at finding ways of making tech stuff "cool", and for ANY tech geek, this a GOOD thing. Just because I don't USE them doesn't mean I cant give them props for doing some stuff well lol.

The new Office threw a lot of people for a loop by the way haha...no need to feel bad about that.