Overly Positive

There are a number of topics that I sort of missed out on during my brief hiatus from the blog, so that MMO raiding concept of “months behind” will sort of apply to a lot of my posts in the next few days. Frankly, I like to call it “fashionably late” – especially since optimism is welcome no matter when it enters into the game, right?

Such as it is with the whole Droids vs. iPhones craziness that has been going around lately. The Droid conglomerate, which basically consists of an unholy and more-delicious-than-cupcakes alliance of Motorola, Verizon, and Google, recently came out with its new generation of Droid phones, the Droid X, while Apple and AT&T have touted the new iPhone 4 as the next cellular juggernaut.

If you don’t believe me that this whole technology war has divided the lines pretty sharply among geekery, one need only to go to Engadget or Gizmodo and find any article relating to one or both of the phones. Read the commentary and you’ll be treated to a flurry of arguments and screaming more intense than two people fighting over the last purse at Macy’s. I wouldn’t have it any other way, either.

Why is it that I like to go for a tub of popcorn with extra butter when I see this stuff happening? The main reason is competition is a good thing. For a few years now, the iPhone has been the undisputed champion of cellular phones, which meant that if it had any flaws, they were things that were simply dealt with rather than countered. But with Droid phones on the rise and Droid in general emerging as a legitimate threat to the iPhone’s industry king of the hill title, iPhone developers have been forced to adapt. A silly little antenna flaw in the iPhone 4′s architecture, for example, sparked so much buzz that Steve Jobs himself had to come out to address it. This is because the iPhone actually stands a chance of losing out in the market.

Me? I got caught in the middle, since until recently I was a Blackberry user. I got the Storm, which unfortunately had a technology of typing that I liked but not very many people agreed with (clicking down on the screen was comfortable to me, but not to others). Jilted by many customers, the Storm sort of sat at the sidelines, unable to participate in any kind of cellular catfight. I got a Droid X recently, and while I’m still trying to get over the fact that the red eye that is iconic to it looks like it is going to laser my face off, it’s a decent phone. But I want the iPhone to keep up the good fight. It’ll just make my phone that much better.