Re: NTY: Buy Apple gadgets, use Google services, buy media from Amazon

Posted by Owen Densmore on Feb 13, 2014; 7:49pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/NTY-Buy-Apple-gadgets-use-Google-services-buy-media-from-Amazon-tp7584915p7584917.html

Good points.  But diversity?  Do you buy into that?

I certainly use services outside of Google.  Twitter mainly (have but don't use Facebook) but many forums which are not Google Groups.

I try to use cross platform apps where possible.  Sublime, for example, as a text editor. Chrome/Firefox.  Terminal w/ standard CLI. Dropbox (mac/windows/linux) for files. iOS apps that are cross platform for the most part, although my cant-live-without-it Italian dictionary is iOS only and they tell me that it's the best choice for their market. Possibly iOS folks are more willing to pay?  They seemed sincere. 

The article was about survival in a limited extent: how to deal with being jerked around by the demise of a popular service or platform.

How do you deal with it?  Could you teach a non-techie to follow your lead?  Would write down a simpler set of rules that are easy to follow?

   -- Owen

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:37 AM, glen <[hidden email]> wrote:

I would have (and do, actually) suggested the inverse: Don't buy Apple.
Don't use Google services.  And by Yog, never ever buy anything from
Amazon.  Survival is intimately linked to _not_ depending on these giant
abusive landmarks of homogeny/mediocrity ... I think. ;-)

But then, you're not talking about survival.  You're talking about the
persistence of consumerist tendencies through very mild changes in
infrastructure.  Perhaps "survival" is a euphemism?

On 02/12/2014 08:03 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> I came across this tweet advice on how to survive the next wave of tech
> extinction:
>
> Advice for NYT readers: Buy Apple gadgets, use Google services, buy media

> from Amazon<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/13/technology/personaltech/how-to-survive-the-next-wave-of-technology-extinction.html>

> .
>
>
> Interesting if only they are jumping on the "digital ecology" bandwagon
> we've discussed here often.
>
> But looking at my ecology: I buy Macs.  I primarily use Google services:
> mail, hangouts, calendar, groups, ...  And looking at our TV and our now
> completely digital music, we mainly use Amazon.  I was going to say they
> missed Dropbox as a 4th, but then Doh! .. DB is an Amazon S3/EC2 service.
>
> Its not always easy.  Getting iTunes and Amazon finally is OK.  Getting
> Google Calendar, Mail and Contacts to integrate with OSX is harder.
>
> Amazon seems to be the easiest: they make apps for integrating with
> everything, always with a web-app fallback.  And even my somewhat aging TV
> and new TiVo have direct to Amazon capabilities.
>
> The real shock was when TiVo and the TV decided to have wireless remotes
> that worked on the iPhone.  Ditto for our Apple TV box.
>
> What a triangle: Apple, Google, Amazon.  But it's true.  And the best
> defense is diversity.  How very complex!

--

⇒⇐ glen

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