{"id":3816,"date":"2013-09-29T08:03:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T15:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2021-08-26T18:29:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T01:29:04","slug":"ok-im-giving-up-all-pretense-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2013\/09\/29\/ok-im-giving-up-all-pretense-of\/","title":{"rendered":"OK I&#8217;m Giving up all pretense of&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Thinking Windows or Android is close to equal to Apple.<\/p>\n<p>As is well known I&#8217;ve been using Apple products in my personal life for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>The Mac OS is based on a BSD UNIX core, and it allows you to access it&#8217;s UNIX roots if you need or want to. I&#8217;ve used that UNIX heritage in my work life, and in my personal computing since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazingly convenient sometimes to be able to get the GUI out of your way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After jettisoning the Android last week and having all my devices work in one environment I can only say&#8230; <strong>Damn<\/strong>! Why the hell did I wait so long?<\/p>\n<p>I did Blackberry, I did a couple of Android phones and now the new iPhone. The all Apple combination is really very very nice.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, Apple has restrictions about some things but if I want to get around those restrictions I can. My iPad, my iPhone, and my Macbook all share data seamlessly. They&#8217;re always in sync, and it&#8217;s just so damn nice to not have to think about what data is where.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose you could say that I&#8217;m a confirmed Apple Zombie now.<\/p>\n<p>I know that I&#8217;d probably be just as excited if I was all Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>A Windows computer, tablet, and phone are supposed to have the same interoperability as what I&#8217;m enjoying now with Apple. I&#8217;d doubt if Microsoft missed such an obvious connection of devices.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the problem for me was simply forcing an adaptation when I had only one device that was &#8220;the odd man out&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/NewImage68.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also blown away with the battery life on my iPhone. I&#8217;m in a crappy cellular reception area and I&#8217;m still only having to recharge the phone about once every couple of days. My Android NEVER got that kind of battery life.<\/p>\n<p>The only glitch has been my dry skin. The fingerprint scanner doesn&#8217;t like it if your skin is very dry or in my case dry and a little cut up from working in the yard. I&#8217;m using the keypad code about half the time right now. But I understand the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Even Siri is working pretty well on my iPad and iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited about the prospect of the new MacOS based on what I&#8217;ve seen with IOS7 and that Mavericks looks like it&#8217;s got even tighter integration with IOS, I figure my computing will be like magic.<\/p>\n<p>I know, my windows \/ linux friends are all tossing their cookies right about now.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you that know me all know that computers haven&#8217;t been a religion with me for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>I look at computers, phones, tablets, more along the lines of a pen.<\/p>\n<p>Some folks like BIC, others like Parker, or Cross, and still others prefer Mont Blanc.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep my Mont Blanc thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>I promise I won&#8217;t take your BIC away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Thinking Windows or Android is close to equal to Apple. As is well known I&#8217;ve been using Apple products in my personal life for a long time. The Mac OS is based on a BSD UNIX core, and it allows you to access it&#8217;s UNIX roots if you need or want to. I&#8217;ve used that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2013\/09\/29\/ok-im-giving-up-all-pretense-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OK I&#8217;m Giving up all pretense of&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-3816","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\/3816","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=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3817,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}