What's the purpose?

Since starting this, I've strayed away from my original purpose to document my path to finding faith(or lack thereof). However, I've since decided to make this a more personal blog on all things in my life. So, without anymore preamble, I'm going to talk about something that has me really excited(besides my upcoming wedding, and the engagement pictures that just got taken this past week).

No, this is something more, oh, I don't know silly, I guess, to some people. I'm talking about the new T-Mobile G1 phone. Why, you might ask, does a simple cell phone have me so excited? Well, for starters, it marks the first phone to compete nearly head on with with iPhone. In just pre-orders alone, T-Mobile has sold out their entire first round, then the second - it got to the point that you would get a G1 quicker if you just waited and went to a T-Mobile store when it comes out. This might not seem like a big deal to some people, but believe me, it is.

It's a big deal because it is something new. Completely new. It is a new piece of hardware - the phone from HTC, and a completely new OS in the form of Andriod from Google. Andriod marks something completely different coming into the cellphone industry. The iPhone has the AppStore, but, Apple has the ultimate say in what can and cannot be sold on the store. With the G1, the marketplace for it is completely open - anyone and everyone can develop for it (which could, admittedly, be the bane of the G1).

I geek out over the G1 namely because I am a huge Google fanboy. I use their products daily. I use gmail, blogger, google talk, etc. every single day. I admit Google isn't all good, there are some negative things about the company (look at some of their policies in places like China) but overall, they are a company who, I believe, embody what it means to be 'free'. By free, I mean all of their software is free, they offer free email with a massive amount of storage, they have free maps, etc. No other single company does as much as they do in regards to giving users things.


I don't know where I'm going with this any longer, I started this over a week ago and have worked on it several times since, so I'm just giving up and posting it.

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