Android -vs- iPhone

A couple of years ago, a good friend of mine asked me "Hey, Android versus iPhone- who do you think would win?" When I replied "Android", my friend audibly recoiled- "Wha-Really? why do you think that?" At the time, the iPhone was way further along in development, sleeker, sexier, but here's the thing- I REALLY thought that Android would trounce iPhone and at that moment I didn't want to get into a three hour debate.

Y'see, I firmly believe that Apple = Volkwagen. Hear me out on this for a second.

It used to be that if you owned a Beetle, you could fix the entire car with three metric wrenches. Beetles that were here before the British Invasion are still tooling around Mexico City. However, if you bought a Volksie in the last fifteen years, you would know that not only are Volkswagens hard to work on, but that they are built for obsolecence. Forget getting parts. VW made a decision that they wanted to compete with BMW and now be a "luxury item." (This year, VW learned their mistake and have announced that they want to compete with Toyota. Good luck with that idea, FauVey...)

That "sexy luxury item" business model is now embraced by Steve Jobs. The case design now is all brushed metal and sleek, nothing hippie about it, meant to plug and play, as most folks are loathe to crack open their Mac. I myself have been told that my tower at work will no longer be upgraded, but I will be issued a MacBook annually. Really? Isn't that kind of, well, wasteful? As an aside, that case design is about to jump the shark as well.

But you don't have to take my word for it...