{"id":285,"date":"2011-11-08T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2021-08-26T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T01:30:10","slug":"technology-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2011\/11\/08\/technology-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working with computers since the beginning of time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen too many corporations, &#8220;killer apps&#8221; or &#8220;futures of computing&#8221; come and go to count. Hell, my resume is chronicle of the computer industry.<\/p>\n<p>The devices get smaller, lighter, and to some extent smarter but the hype remains the same.<\/p>\n<p>I survived the Mainframe vs Mini computer wars, Uhh the cheapest solution won&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mini computers reign was fairly short lived because they fell to Micro-computers( aka personal computers), again in general the cheapest solution won.<\/p>\n<p>Before you PC fan boys get all smug there was a time when the term PC was&#8230; well very P.C. and inclusively meant IBM, Tandy, Sinclair, a wide variety of hobbyist, and Apple machines.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve listened to and occasionally participated in the PC vs Mac wars.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve likened the latter to folks debating, &#8220;Which is better, a Bic or Monte Blanc?&#8221; both will write your name on a check to me just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Both computer platforms are perfectly serviceable I&#8217;ve long held the thought that you should choose your computer just like you choose your pall point pen. Find something that you like and get on with your life.<\/p>\n<p>The same is true of smart phones. I&#8217;ve had an iPhone, and a Blackberry, and now I&#8217;m on my second Android. I like the Android platform and the variety of phone and application choices available.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m platform \/manufacturer agnostic, I&#8217;ll use my Mac most of the time, My Netbook (Win 7) when I&#8217;m out and about, and my Android without looking at an iPhone longingly.<\/p>\n<p>All I ask of a device is that it freaking works and doesn&#8217;t annoy me or require that I perform troubleshooting exercises on a daily or weekly basis.<\/p>\n<p>I think there will probably be no winner in the iPhone vs Android war. Just as there hasn&#8217;t been a clear winner in the PC vs Mac war.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that most of the pundits and wags feel the same way too. I guess they have to sell magazines and stir the pot to keep their jobs. So here&#8217;s a request. Hey guys, could you dial it down a notch?<\/p>\n<p> Wake me up when the iPhone 6 is released.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working with computers since the beginning of time. I&#8217;ve seen too many corporations, &#8220;killer apps&#8221; or &#8220;futures of computing&#8221; come and go to count. Hell, my resume is chronicle of the computer industry. The devices get smaller, lighter, and to some extent smarter but the hype remains the same. I survived the Mainframe &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2011\/11\/08\/technology-wars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Technology Wars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10326,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/10326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}