Android on.

Today, I bought an Android machine.
That should give me a sense of things to come: "machine".
Even though it doesn't have much of a hype preceding it, the product seems just as much the perfect child of capitalism and information-pervasion as does Apple to be the perfect child of autocracy and steel fists in velvet gloves.
Much of the tech news over the last few months has been focusing on the increasing, and increasingly exacting, competition between Apple and Google.
At one point of time, I felt obliged to pick a "side", but that way of playing things was rendered moot when the kind of features and apps begin to converge toward a "perfect mobile experience".
For instance, the slider and the flip have been ruled out as the "perfect" form factors, and a horizontal scroller on the home screen is fast becoming a default attribute.
As the bones of contentions are being eliminated (or reciprocated) one by one, the actual differences between two products are being limited to small and actually insignificant differences, or differences that have persisted since the beginning and reflect the maker's philosophy.
So, I chose an Android over an Apple. Over a Blackberry, too.
I should say here that I take to tech very well, but the differences I see are only a consequence of experiences.
As I was saying: Android won the battle for me.
Sure, I wasn't to be shielded by Job's policies against a vastly-proliferating apps market, but somehow, that never came up as an issue.
The other thing was that so many Apple-lovers - by which I mean specific friends of mine - sang the praise of a certain "approach to the mobile phone experience" that so set it apart.
Call me naive, but I fail to see it.
As a phone, it's great, it's a trend-setter, but if all the abstractions are truncated from such claims, the phone's greatness is just as real and just as utilizable as Samsung's Galaxy series.
Perhaps continued association will define in finer contrast my loyalties - either to brands and therefore existing solutions or to an experience as such and therefore an endeavour to reinvent things to come.
As always, only time will tell.