Regretting a purchase. Well, only kinda, sorta…

Remember me?  I’m that nerdpundit guy that disappeared for a while because life got out of hand, but managed to stay in touch with the world due to the awesome (sarcastic) iPhone.  Trust me, I love, LOVE the phone.  Probably a little too much.  But after seeing pictures of and reading about the Android Market on Google’s upcoming iPhone slayer, I got a bit upset.  Frankly, I like the iPhone as a device better than everything out there.  Even the almighty HTC can’t give me a design that I think is nicer and easier to use than the iPhone.  But, that’s my opinion…and I’m sure dissenters are abound.

Well, here’s the big problem: anyone with an iPhone or iPod touch should take it out now and take a peek at it.  See those pretty icons and apps?  See that Maps one? How about the YouTube one?  Did you download the Google one?  What about Safari: does it use Google to search for things?  Wait?!  Do you have AIM?  Yes, Google makes all of those things…  My take: Apple played with people with the iPhone in order to get an idea as to how to make an iPhone 3G, screwing millions of people along the way. What did Google do?  Let Apple take the heat and make a (potentially better) competitor.  Kudos to the beast that Google is becoming. Hell, in the light of all of this, Microsoft is starting to look pretty damn good as a company.