At some point this year I will be moving away from the BlackBerry platform. To say that I will never look back is an understatement. My first and only BB handset is the first generation Storm. Quite the apropos name. Research In Motion moved into my world like a hurricane and I’ve never quite been the same. The Storm is a big flaming pile of turd. It’s so bad that they released a sequel roughly a year later and Verizon has pretty much pretended that the original never existed (the last official OS upgrade was back in October). Storm 1 is The Phantom Menace to the Storm 2′s Attack of the Clones. The second installment is a marginal (at best, Lucas shitty storytelling-enabling vehicle at worst) improvement that does nothing to reverse steady brand erosion. Click screen technology is Jake Llyod. Death to your product.
Quo vadimus. Latin for “Where are we going?” The answer to this question is, seemingly, either towards the iPhone or Android. Since it’s debut 3 years ago, the iPhone has become a technological and media darling (although AT&T has tried it’s darndest to kill the Golden Goose). But now it appears that the iPhone has company. Android based phones are approaching iPhone daily sales levels and developers are racing towards the platform faster than you can say “Sega Dreamcast.”
Despite being the Apple fan that I am, the wait for a mythical Verizon iPhone has stopped me from switching carriers. Well, that and the fact that AT&T doesn’t seem to know how to fix their bandwidth issues. Or maybe it’s AT&T’s awesome brand tactic of blaming the customer. This waiting period has allowed Google’s Android OS to become a part of my decision set. There are probably millions of Verizon customers just like me. Apple is losing App Store revenue during the waiting period. Once I spend money to fill an Android phone with apps, the switching cost will probably be too great.
I love Apple. It’s no secret. But as I move towards an Apple-centric technological experience, the iPhone seems more and more likely to be the forgotten son.
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