OK, Apple vs Google. Well I am currently typing on my MacBook Pro, my iPod Touch is charging, and I think(?) I want an iPhone when I get home. When I was going into my first year at Uni in the States, I received a letter saying that all Communications majors should buy a Mac laptop. All of the computers I use at my Uni in the States are Macs. I love using my MacBook. I really can not use a PC laptop for the life of me. I just get all confused with them. Macs are just easier for me to work on and all of my Uni work at home goes over well when I use a Mac. I guess I am a Mac person.
However, this lecture really got me thinking. I know some of my friends and family have Android phones and they are not bad. I just don't like using them because I do not know how....I am not comfortable with them. If I bought my own Android phone, I am sure I would get used to it though. Then there is the App Store business. I always knew that Android apps were cheaper/free compared to Apple apps, but I never realized there were so many more Android apps. This changes things. Not only does Android have cheap apps for a poor college student like myself, but they have more. Maybe I will want to invest in an Android phone when I get home. This means freedom I guess. Comfort vs freedom...I have always been the one to choose comfort in every situation. However, after my amazing study abroad experience I think when I go home I will be choosing freedom and hopefully a new Android phone will be in my pocket.
The conclusion I am going with is that the debate of Apple vs Google will continue in my mind. I think Android phones will overtake iPhones, but I think that the iPad will dominate the tablet market compared to Google. When it comes to computers I will always choose my MacBook, but everyone has their own opinion on that.
Oh no - they forced you to buy a particular brand of computer at Uni? I am pretty sure you can successfully sue for that - it seems highly unethical.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a comparison of Apple and Google could even be viewed as Holden vs. the car manufacturing industry or AFL vs. the Australasian Football Council. I think Google is playing on a different field to Apple entirely.
ReplyDeleteNo one forces us to buy a specific computer in my Uni but we do get discounts from both type of computer companies. And each year they make better offers. It's kind of funny,actually.
ReplyDeleteBut,anyways, I'm like you, an Apple person. I have a MacBook and an iPod-i still don't see the point of the iPad- and I still think that I might buy an iPhone when i go back home. It's more comfortable-even though you have a closed system with less options-and it makes it easier if all your devices are based on Apple working system. But I must admit that you pay a lot for design and just for the name of the brand, more than needed.
I've never been forced to buy Apple, but I simply prefer them :)
ReplyDeleteIt's true that Apple compared to Android is easier to sync across devices, and with mac's ability to run windows and mac OS parallel it's far more snazzy than regular windows based OS. I suppose it comes down to what your using it for and whether you want them base don being pretty items rather than tech based really.
The fact is a friend of mine had purchased an Iphone 4 in the Unite State, and then when she got this phone she cannot use in Australia. She found the Apple store in Sydney and they said they do not have responsible for this because the phone locked by communication companies in America not Apple Company. Now she just can just use this iphone as an Itouch. I tried to talk to Apple see if they can help us to exchange, but they said it could not happen. Personally, I like Apple products, but sometimes I fell the closed economy system brings so much troubles to us. I cannot predict the future market, but I am pretty sure if Apple still wants to dominate technology market, the closed economy system would not be encouraged.
ReplyDeleteI cant use macs. I have an iphone and ipod but cant get my head around mac computers. Like you said it all comes down to comfort and freedom. The android phone could become the coolest phone in the world but i couldnt be bothered learning how to use it. Its the same with macs. They probably are better than macs but im just too lay to learn how to use them. I think the real battle between google and apple comes down to marketing. Apple is in the lead because it has convinced the world that it is the only cool option.
ReplyDeleteI find it funny how you say that you don't understand PCs and just can't navigate them because that is exactly how I feel with macs. It's weird that we kind of just stick to what we know. I say I know my way around a PC so therefore my argument is that PCs are superior but I can only base that on the fact that I am just illiterate when it comes to macs.
ReplyDeleteThe usability argument is one that I have heard countless times by Apple devotees in an attempt to turn me. I am the complete opposite to you. I have spent my entire life using the Windows operating system and have grown to love it, despite its many flaws. Having to learn a brand new system is not a very enticing proposal
ReplyDeleteThat is pretty bad that you had no choice in the matter when it came to buying a computer... I wonder if you could actually sue...
ReplyDeleteSurely you should be able to chose what you use. See i am the opposite, I can use Mac for the life of me. But maybe its just what we are used to, and we don't like to change in that way. We are more comfortable with what we know, and despite the fact that we live in such a change world, the thought of leaving our little bubble, or comfort zone scares us to much to actually try something different.
I was a PC user my whole life until February this year when I got a mac, primarily for the amazing batter life on it. I found it quite hard to navigate at first and get used to it, but once I did I love it! I am not going to say 'macs4lyf' or that I would never turn back though. I still use a PC for work and can see the merits in both systems. The biggest problem have with macs is the closed networks and the fact that their technological devices seem to become obsolete so quickly!
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