Switching ecosystems. Yesterday I bought myself a Google Nexus 5 phone to replace my iPhone 5C. Although Im a rock solid Mac user - I couldnt imagine trying to live with either Windows or Linux on my desktop - I find myself drifting away from the iOS world. In the last year, for example, Ive used my Kindle Fire tablet far more often than my iPad. But the main thing provoking the switch is that I really want to increase my use of my Google Glass. Restrictions in iOS (especially the inability of user apps to route IP traffic between BlueTooth, WiFi and LTE), coupled with the flakiness of the iOS Mobile Hotspot feature, mean that Glass simply works better with an Android phone. (And before you say, but of course, the changes that have affected interoperability have all come from Apple.) Now Ive tried this Android switch once before, and it was not a pleasant experience.In August 2011, I acquired an AT&T Samsung Infuse. It was big, fast and gorgeous, as I wrote here: geoffarnold/?p=4087 But my infatuation soon wore off. The problems were many: overheating, bloatware, lockups, buggy software, the failure of AT&T and Samsung to keep the software up to date, and a handful of incredibly annoying features with no workaround. (Posting a notification when the phone was fully charged - often in the middle of the night - was the most asinine.) So that experiment lasted less than 6 months, and then I returned to the walled garden: geoffarnold/?p=4261. So this time Im trying to be smarter about it. By choosing Googles own Nexus, I can be (pretty) sure that Ill always have up-to-date software. And I know where they live.... ;-)
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 19:39:56 +0000
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