It doesn’t matter whether Android is better than IOS

The problem has never been Android. Android is Android and IOS is IOS. They’re just different.

The problem is the device manufacturers and software publishers. For two years I went through a cycle where my Motorola Droid wouldn’t pair with my Garmin GPS. Every software update on one side or the other broke connectivity. Garmin blamed it on Moto and Moto blamed it on Garmin and it was broken more often than it worked.

My two year old iPhone has never failed to connect — not once.

Moral of the story: When it comes to technology, being better doesn’t matter. If it doesn’t work, it really doesn’t matter whether it’s genius or a piece of crap.

For every market, there’s an equal anti-market.

Apple Is Doomed!

Not. The Motley Fool is living up to its name in the Doug Erhman interview.

It doesn’t take a genius to look at the past successes and failures of Microsoft, Google, HP and others to realize that new and different is not always new and better, and certainly not always a consistent measure of the person at the helm.

Me thinks that maybe Erhman should be ousted for not answering the questions with anything of substance.

Has anyone stopped to think that while the pundits are manufacturing doom and gloom out of the rumors about release delays for an imaginary (unannounced) product (iWatch)? Or a CEO that hasn’t wow’d the tech community in two OMG-that’s-way-too-long years? After all, isn’t it obvious that Steve Jobs invented, developed and released all of his cool gadgets in mere weeks or months?

I’m secretly hoping that Wall Street bets the farm on this bit of news and Apple’s stock takes a nose dive. Because I believe that Steve Jobs was a really smart guy… smart enough that in those ten years he was grooming his successor, he may have actually planned for a few surprises to emerge after his death. And I’m still hoping for a chance to redeem myself for not buying Apple at $90.

Trying to make the world a better place…

I challenge all my friends and followers:

  1. In the next 24 hours, I want you to bestow some random act of kindness to a total stranger or someone you don’t know well.
  2. Ask all your friends to do the same.
  3. When you’re done, reply to this post… not with what you did or who you did it for, but how it made you feel.

Go ahead… I dare you!

Nothing Warms The Heart Like The Kindness Of A Stranger

On our recent vacation, my husband left his iPad in the seat pocket on the plane in Charlotte, North Carolina. By the time he realized what he’d done, the plane was well on its way to Pittsburgh. We filed a report with the airlines, but they couldn’t find it and we just assumed we were out of luck.

When we got home, Tom had an email from someone saying they had found it and asking us to contact them. I have to admit I was a little skeptical because it was from a hotmail address and I figured they were going to want a king’s ransom to give it back.

Long story short, I responded, they asked where they should send it, I supplied an address and they sent another email this morning indicating it’s on its way.

I replied to thank them and tell them we’d like to send something as appreciation for their honesty and trouble, and they replied back:

There is no need for anything. All I can wish for is that if I lost something someone would return it.

Score one for humanity!