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January 15th, 2010 at 5:40 PM - Columns and Opinions by Vern Seward

I had a long contest instant message conversation with a friend of mine to, we were talking about the relative merits, or lack thereof, of the Nexus One versus the iPhone.

Mike, my familiar, is a deep geek in every sense of the word. He gets a kick out of dissecting technology and reassembling it to see what he can make it do. He’s the tolerant of guy who will buy a relatively cheap movie camera then try to attach SLR lenses to it just to see if he can, and what can be produced if he does.

I use to want to do spirit like that, and I’m still fascinated by the internal goings on in tech, but I just don’t have the time to tinker. I want my gadgets to exertion. End of story. When they don’t work, I want them fixed. I can and have tinkered to fix my stuff and things belonging to other people, and I do use to advantage tinkering, but I’d rather write and take pictures than tinker. And I went I do write or process the pix I’ve taken I shortage my computer to do what I want, when I want it, and pronto. I don’t want to be flagged every time my computer hiccups. I don’t want to see a pop-up whenever I sternutation. I just need it to let me write or play with my photos. The same is true for all my gadgets. They just need to work.

You can picture the conversation Mike and I had. Mike was excited about the Nexus One. He pooh-poohed the stories that spoke of problems with Google’s new Android based smartphone. He was more interested in the openness of the inclination and underlying OS and development environment and railed against Apple’s supposed Orwellian ideology that surrounds its iPhone.