After 4 years of owning an iPhone, I have reached the end of Day 29 of owning an Android phone - specifically, the HTC One X. Why is 29 days noteworthy? Because I have 30 days after buying a new phone to return it to AT&T if I am unhappy - so, if I’m going to go back to the iPhone, it would have to be tomorrow.

29 Days with Android | The Verge Forums

A thoroughly considered take on Android in our forums.

I think a mistake that many developers make is they put everything they’ve got into the game, launch it, and then cross their fingers. There’s no time left to really react to what happens. Yes, there’s still that 1/100 or 1/10000 chance you’ll get Game Of The Week from Apple, but it’s becoming increasingly tough. Unfortunately a good game in and of itself just isn’t enough.

There is of course a written literature that predates and underlies all these movies, which could hardly have found their form without the help of H.P. Lovecraft and Arthur C. Clarke and Philip K. Dick (not to mention the foundational assistance of H.G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon). There is even an epic poem, Harry Martinson’s Aniara, an absurdist vision of life aboard a rocket ship permanently lost in space, that in 1958 was turned into a twelve-tone opera by Karl-Birger Blomdahl. But it is in the form of movies that this mythology becomes part of the furniture of our world, to which we turn as one might to a prayer rug or a Ouija board, in an effort to make contact with the unknowable. It’s where the Romantic Sublime went to die.

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