re: #227 danarchy

I am torn on this. I like an open eco system which is why I go with Android, but Apples whole schtick is delivering a very cultivated and curated end user experience. If you take that control away from them it sort of makes them not Apple and just another phone. If Android didn’t exist with over 70% of global market share I would be fine with this, but people choose apple because they want the apple experience. It is hard to see how Apple delivers their “walled garden” if they have to take down all the walls.

This is a more helpful description of Apple and Android than most I have seen. I’m thinking of taking the smartphone step this year, and when I asked my friend from Seattle, who was here last weekend, what she thought of Android (as she used her Apple) she said, ‘they’re stupid and I hate them’. She does tend toward the blunt, but usually not that blunt.