I’m an Android user and I don’t really have any experience with iPhones and quite frankly I’m biased towards Android for a number of reasons. And I’m a geek so I’m not the right one to judge the “easy to use” test because it’s usually easy to use anything that works. There are also a lot of Android phones out there so it would also depend on which one you compared. For example I like the Motorola droids better than Samsung.

So – I keep hearing people say that iPhones are easier for “normal” people to learn. So skipping everything else, I’m looking for opinions from people who have significant experience on both phones. Is it true? Are iPhones really easier than droids? the question assumes that users are going to be somewhat heavy users. Lets assume that besides making phone calls the user is going to do these activities:

1. Email Access
2. Maps and Navigation
3. Voice commands for voice texting and voice navigation
4. Calendar
5. Utilities such as Calculators, timers, alarm clocks, etc.
6. Usability while driving in a car dock
7. Web Browsing

There comes a point where the government goes too far and people have to just stand up and say no. One of those situations is jaywalking laws. Gilroy is a little town 20 miles south of San Jose. It’s just 50k people and the main drag through downtown is Monterey st. This is one of the areas where they want to outlaw jaywalking.

The road is a little 2 lane road through the old downtown area. Traffic in the area is slow and the street isn’t very wide. But California governments have what I consider to be a toxic culture of wanting to pass more and more laws to manage every aspect of our daily lives. There is no reason for this law except it’s kind of a monkey see monkey do copy of jay walking laws in other California cities. If this were San Francisco I could understand it because they have a pedestrian culture there who is too stupid not to walk out in front of cars.

So – I think that Gilroy should direct it’s slim resources to filling pot holes and delivering city water which is in my view is the primary duty of government. I would rather see the city police focus on gang related problems and not busting people walking across the street. I also think that general oppression of freedom laws causes people to become more stupid and will result in lowering the IQ of the city. We citizens need to push back against this government culture and keep the focus on pot holes and not looking for new ways to keep the sheep in line.

Some day our children and grandchildren will look at this video and remember the time when someone could just walk across the street when they want to without California telling me I can’t.