Apple

My story with Apple started late with first iPhone. I was visiting States for the second time and wasn’t planning to buy this phone. I’ve went to Apple Store to buy one for my colleague who wanted it badly. After I’ve seen it in action I’ve immediately bought one for me. And as there was purchase limit back then I wasn’t able to get one for my pal after all. I’m still feeling a bit sorry about that. Anyway, phone was brilliant and I consider it my best smartphone to date. However it was also last time I’ve bought phone from Apple as I don’t like to overpay and the new ones, especially in Europe, are too pricy. Not that first iPhone was cheap, but it had no real competition. Now when I was looking for new smartphone and saw Samsung Galaxy Note at much lower price than iPhone 4, the decision was simple. Not to mention that in my opinion Note offers more. Still IOS is much better operating system than Android and if somebody doesn’t agree then please borrow an iPhone from somebody for two days and see how it’s managing apps and how it generally feels. If you still think that Android is better then you’re Google Fanboy and I can’t possibly convince you. So if ever Apple would catch up technologically with Android phone makers and would drop prices to more reasonable level, then I’m ditching Android and getting back to IOS. However I would have to be insane to hold my breath to see it coming.

Today finally, after three weeks of waiting, I’ve received my Magic Mouse. Christmas gift from my lovely wife. I must say that I’m impressed. It takes a while to switch from MacBook’s touch pad, but it’s worth it. It’s pretty accurate, but it’s not surprise as it’s laser based. At last I have a mouse which is wireless, blue-tooth. My previous mice were wireless, but always radio based, so they got often jammed by other media. Here I got very decent connection and it’s fast. Now I can move precisely and quickly around Mac OS, everything takes less time and is more enjoyable. What is a little bad is the fact that you have different gestures for mouse than for touch pad. It’s not very convenient as I must remember two sets of gestures, but will live. Also for minus is the clicking sound when hitting one of two “normal” buttons, it sounds like in very old mice. I hope I would get used to it. Scroll is amazing, very fast. No problems with gestures, I have a feeling that Magic Mouse is more responsive than touch pad. And of course now I can easily select multiple files and drag and drop them wherever I want, it wasn’t so easy without my rodent. I like it, a lot.