Getting Stuck on Mobile Platforms
Friday, January 8th, 2010
The recent release of the Google Nexus One, the new Android phone, got me a little bit worried about my attachment to the iPhone. I am very interested in the Nexus One, it is a really great phone, but no matter how good any other phone seems now, it is very difficult for me to consider leaving the iPhone platform because I have integrated a number of iPhone specific applications into my lifestyle and I do know if anybody ever will make equivalent applications for any other device (iFitness, iXpense, Nike+, etc).
No matter how pretentious it might sound, but the iPhone has really changed my life, the way I use a mobile phone, and the way I interact with the web on the go, and this layer that the applications bring to the mix make it extremely hard to move to another platform, no matter how appealing that device seems. The only option I can consider now for getting another mobile phone would be to have it as a secondary phone – which I really never had even though I badly think I should get another number for work… but seriously, would someone who has an iPhone buy an Android phone as a secondary mobile phone? I can’t possibly pay for two mobile data plans, that’s just not right.
iPhones and other smart phones users, do you feel attached to your platform or can you easily switch regardless of the applications?
