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3 things have happened that have made me actually doubt my 2 year old Apple love affair.

1. work happened. I am now working on the interwebs. and what this has meant, more than ever before in my nine years in TVland, is that I need a calendar. At my old job when I had a mac at work, I’d happily use Ical, and sync it to my Iphone. Ical is nice. Nothing special, but nice. But now that I am downstairs, the mac is gone (and I did not put up a fight to get one down there). So that’s out. I’m not using Outlook’s calendar. No way. No. So I was left with Google Calendar.

And I love it. It is really an amazing little webapp. The integrated todo list (that you can date and then they show up in the calendar) is awesome.

2. Voice. I got me some google voice. And I like it. Not in a practical I NEED THIS NOW kind of way, but more of in a “well this could be handy” kind of way. So my first thought is- I need my contacts in Google, not Apple’s address book. I’ve never used the gmail address book for anything other than email- but once again I discover that it is an amazingly well thought out little webapp.

3. This week, Apple decides that google can’t release a Google Voice app on the Iphone. It makes sense for a whole bunch of reasons business-wise. I get that.

But after 1 and 2, does it to me? Why would I not go with a Gphone when my contract is up? they’ll be on Verizon, which is superior in every way service-wise. And while there’s plenty to love with the app store and the polish of an iphone- what do I actually do 90% of the time?

check stocks. check email. check twitter.

I’m sure that experience is at least decent on the Gphone. And I have the benefit of not having to decide this until 2010, so hopefully they have a kickass Android phone out there.

This is actually quite crazy to me- I was pretty sure I was going to be Apple til the bitter end. Not because of some blind love- but the seemingly unshakable truth that nothing would be better designed and just work better than an Apple product. And in a lot of ways, that will probably still be true. But the surprising thing to me is- that isn’t as important as a device that works with my needs.

So yeah, I”m a big dork.

Feels good to write. Maybe I’ll do more of it.