I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
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The strangest thing about all this is that people have such short memories. Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) have been around for decades, with iOS and Android just being new GUIs. If one were to look at MacOS and Windows, for instance, they may look remarkably similar but, in reality, are fairly different GUIs. The same holds for iOS and Android, so it is disappointing that Apple is spending so much energy/time on trying to destroy Android rather than try to catch up with it.
I'm not a fanboy for either OS. I did think iOS beat Android hands down when I had a Honeycomb tablet, but now that I have Jelly Bean, I can see why Apple is acting as if they are really scared of Android.