- The urge to join groups is a natural human desire. Evolutionarily speaking, our babies fared better if we surrounded ourselves with helping hands. But even today when you can survive as a loner, there’s something intoxicating about being part of an experience that’s larger than oneself.
Politics, religion, sports, bands — these are the tents under which we typically congregate. Allah, Judas Priest, the Cubs, sure. But smartphones? It seems sort of hard to believe that a graham cracker-sized computer that’s supposed to be a tool, a means to an end, could somehow deliver the same level of ecstatic experience. That it could be powerful enough to feel like a movement.
Interesting, but even more interesting was the UI on that article. What's up with things populating as I scroll down. What advantage is there to them not being there to begin with? Is it just to be neat and gimmicky or is there a function I'm missing? btw, I'm not a "fanboy" of anything except the Beatles and Wilco and perhaps Belle & Sebastian. -Music. I do like my apple computers but I like my Dell as well. Both have their advantages. I've never owned an android phone. You a fanboy JTB?
No, but I am an advocate of Android because of the semi-FOSS setup. However, Google's actions in recent years do bother me and am glad that Canonical has Ubuntu on Mobile coming along (at least for those of us with Nexus 4 devices). The Verge's graphical posts are pretty polarizing. I don't like the pop in graphics, they're distracting and could've just been there from the beginning. Not very functional design.
I just spent the past two hours playing JRPGs. I couldn't get past the social logos lunging out at me. I'm of a like mind as far as Android. I'm just barely in the "Apple is the lesser of two evils" camp because at least Jobs and Crew are straight up about their self-interested villainy. Erik Schmidt's last book was fucking chilling in its blase acceptance and endorsement of passive evil.