Changing my Religion
When Apple brought out the first iPhone, it was the first phone in a long while I actually wanted . As soon as it was launched, I bought an unlocked one from Ebay. This was about a year before they were available at all here, and I really liked it. It was beautiful, functional and, most importantly, exclusive. Now of course, everyone has got one. That's not entirely the reason why I've changed though (although it is quite a big part of the reason if I am honest). I started to fall out of love with Apple when they introduced the 4s. There had been several annoying upgrades, which didn't seem to bring much benefit and I hadn't bothered with them. Then I ended up with a free upgrade and got a 4s. Siri was so irritating I very quickly lost patience. Whatever number of sophisticated and nuanced speech patterns it was programmed to deal with, Estuary English is clearly not one of them. Then iCloud came out. Suddenly, my thousands of contacts were merged with everyone els...