Am I an Apple Fanboy?
I have a bit of Apple tech, I like their products, I like their solutions, I like what they are trying to do, I like Steve Jobs, I like Apple.
BUT
I like a lot of things. I like my Panasonic TV, I like my Synology DiskStation, I like Dropbox, I like Google Apps, I like Evernote, I like WIndows 7, I like LFC, I like my car, I like formula 1, I like beer, I like .... I like lots of stuff that's not Apple.
BUT
None of that matters, you talk up Apple products, you even defend what they do and you become a fanboy.
Now, I have no real beef with being called an Apple Fanboy, but I have a beef with WHY I'm called it. To me, personally, ME, just me, not you, It Just Works. It does what it says on the tin, it looks good, it works well and I like how it does what it does. Not just the iPhone, or the iPad, or the iMac, or iCloud, or iTHIS or iTHAT, but pretty much whatever I have from them, JUST WORKS.
And it works well. And it works better than anything else I've ever used.
I am personally more productive with the Apple products I have and use that without them. My iPhone is my world, my telephone, my messages, my email, my address book, my calendar, my social networks, my spare time killer, my train timetable, my todo list, my music player, my alarm clock, my camera, my everything I need to get through a day.
Most of that stuff lives on the device, but more importantly, most of it also lives off that device. Off somewhere where I can reach it from my Air or from a Windows PC or from any browser. I can change that data on multiple devices from multiple locations and it's updated when I view it elsewhere. It Just Works.
My Air is the best computer I've ever touched, let alone owned. It's fast, it's light, it starts in seconds, it syncs with my data and it stores my files. It runs Windows and Windows Apps, it looks good and it plays better. Muti Touch trackpad is genius, the display is incredible and It Just Works.
Stuff like that changes the way I work and how I play. It's stuff like that that keeps me tied into the ecosystem, tied into the next product, tied into the belief that their products are better, that their products help me do what I do, and they do it better than anybody else can.
Does that make me a fanboy? Because I believe in what they do and how they do it? Because for ME, ... It Just Works and that's what makes me buy their products.
4S or not 4S?
Yeah I wanted something different than a spec bump iPhone 4.
BUT
Let's go back in time a bit. I initially didn't get the iPhone 3GS as I had the iPhone 3G. But then I played with one, and yes, it was better, it was worth upgrading. The 3GS was so much better that the 3 becuase of the new hardware.
The iPhone 4 was a no brainer upgrade, that thing is/was the best phone around, bar none for ME and how I work and what I do. I may be tied into the ecosystem and that may make it slightly harder to break free, but for me it was a worthwhile upgrade as the thing is beautiful, the screen, the design, the size, the weight, the everything about that as a device was perfect.
So do I need to get the iPhone 4S? Nope, will I? Yes. But not becuase of the hardware changes, which are great, but for the first time ever, I will upgrade because of software, because of an app, because of Siri.
Siri to me is what I need. I drive for a nearly a couple of hours each day. I get texts, I get email, I need to call, and even though my phone bluetooths to my car, I still need to fiddle, to press buttons. Siri will fix that. Press, speak, do.
Add a reminder, text the wife, reply to the email I didn't have time to do before leaving, book a meeting with somebody. All via talking. Not to mention the other million and one things it can do and will do in the future.
And it's not just for in the car. Fag breaks, meeting breaks, walking around and thinking about something, now I can just tell Siri what I need to know or want it to do and it will sort it.
This is what I need, this is what I want, this is why I will swell the enourmous bank account of Apple Inc by a few more hundred quid on Friday.
People say it may not work they way they say, that they don't believe it will get it right the way that most voice activation stuff doesn't work. Call Michele. Shall I call Bob? it will reply.
But this is Apple, this shit JUST WORKS and it will work and that is why I will upgrade.
Trust in Apple, follow their rules, believe in their products, be the fanboy, but understand that they are where they are as the biggest company in the world because their stuff just works or it just works for me and that it good enough for me.
However, one Apple thing that doesn't work for me.
The iPad.
Oh it works as a device, as a product, as a great replacement for computing for the masses, but for me it doesn't. It needs multi user accounts for all the family. It works as a single person device, not as a family device as it should be. It doesn't work for me as a business tool, mainly because my Air replaced it. It doesn't do anything more than my iPhone can do apart from on a bigger screen. It's too big. It's too not what I need when I need to do something.
It does work and it works well, but for me, I rarely use it, coz for me it just doesn't work when I have an iPhone and a MacBook Air and they work better.
