I thought this week’s comparison was a fantastic topic to look at. Who knows but that it’s a constant personal battle among friends and acquaintances: “I have a Galaxy and it’s so much better than the iPhone, I tried it!’ ‘Yeah, but the iPhone is clean, simple and elegant.” Well, maybe they don’t say it quite like that, but that’s the basic idea: loggerheads.
I personally think the open-source Android modus operandi versus the closed-and-gated operating mode pushed by Apple for the iPhone is an interesting one. I, on one hand favour anything that I think will promote creativity and I definitely think unleashing something and allowing it to be ‘free’ promotes that. On the other hand, it could be argued that structure and definition, as provided by the iPhone’s operating system, also provides a space in which to be creative.
I guess too, that there’s a level of ‘comfort’, as Ted talked about at the end of the lecture, involved in being able to search my MacBook for obscurely saved documents using a sophisticated search function only available on Mac’s, as opposed to having to trawl through piles of documents found by simplisitic searches, as I did when I had a PC laptop. On the other hand, I could ‘play’ around with and even physically replace or repair parts of my laptop much more easily on a PC latop than I have ever been able to do on a MacBook. With a PC, often the ‘end of it’s life’ can be deferred through a little craft workmanship; not so much, it seems from my experiences, with a MacBook.
Freedom or Comfort? Indeed. It’s a hard question to settle.
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