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iPhone 6s Plus – Impressions after Five Weeks
I’ve been using the iPhone 6s Plus now since launch day. I upgraded from the 6. I’ve always thought the “plus” is too big but I wanted to see for myself. When I polled owners, nearly every one was happy with their purchase, although some warned me it can be awkward to use. I use the phone without a case, as I have used every iPhone and Android phone that I have owned.
Size
My take is the phone is too big for comfortable for full one-handed use but there are benefits to having a larger phone. Those benefits are fairly obvious but for me the end result is that I am more likely to use my phone than take out my laptop. But I do commute with a laptop (12 inch Macbook) and am still more productive with it.
I say the phone is too big for “full” one-handed use because I am able to use it one-handed for limited tasks. For example, once I am reading email on the phone, I can use it one handed. However, If i need to write a message, I need a second hand.
I miss having a smaller phone when I have only one hand to use it. That comes up when walking the dog, walking on the streets of NYC, riding the subway, etc. The plus is also heavier and when it’s in my pocket, I find it can be uncomfortable when sitting depending on my clothing. It certainly is not great in the pocket of a suit jacket (although that’s rarely an issue for me).
The best related benefit from the size actually comes from the larger battery. This phone actually lasts a full day, even if I use the phone bluetooth tethered to my laptop for data for an hour in the AM. Battery life is a huge benefit and should not be forgotten. I would say the better battery life is my favorite feature of the 6s Plus.
Screen
Yeah, it’s nice. But many apps are not optimized to take advantage of the large number of pixels. And, my anecdotal experience is that some graphic animations are a tad slower on this phone, possibly because of the need for the phone to render at 3x the resolution and downsample (it’s not the same DPI as the 6).
I find reading on Kindle app with this phone to be more enjoyable, but I own a Kindle dedicated reader so really not a huge deal. I don’t do that much reading on my daily commute and if I am flying or at home, I can use the dedicated Kindle.
Email is more productive with the larger screen, but a laptop is still much more productive.
3D Touch
So far, I find I don’t use 3D touch and often forget it’s available. I don’t see it as adding to my productivity. Perhaps it will become more useful as more apps add support for the feature. So far, it feels like a gimmick.
However, I can see a single place where it could be useful. If Apple is successful at embedding a fingerprint reader into the screen, and if they trigger fingerprint recognition with 3D touch, then they can eliminate the physical home button on the iPhone. This would allow them to make the phone significantly smaller from top to bottom. You can image a future where the entire front of the phone is pretty much the screen. I think that world is the iPhone 7.
If you imagine an iPhone 6s Plus missing it’s top and bottom bezels, it starts being usable with one hand!
Live Photos
I had high hopes for live photos based on the initial description but I have found that I soon turned the feature off. Ultimately, the moments before and after the shot were simply not that interesting. For a landscape, there is literally no benefit most of the time. For portraits, the moment before and after are awkward and the inclusion of sound ruins the moment entirely. You see, portraits are staged moments where everyone acts happy for a single moment. But seeing the frames leading up to and following that moment can be pretty depressing.
Lack of Conclusion
After a little more than a month, I’m still on the fence as to whether or not I prefer the Plus to the regular iPhone 6. My answer changes moment to moment. If I was forced to have only one device, no laptops, not iPads, no Kindles, then the Plus is the right size. The extra real estate is worth the hassle of carrying and using a larger phone with one hand. But if you carry multiple devices and are fortunate enough to be able to buy them, then I think it’s a harder sell. My guess is that I will go back to the smaller form factor during the next generation iPhone cycle. Hopefully battery technology will have caught up by then. Then again, if the 7 is the size of the iPhone 6S Plus without the bezels…
Quick Review of Samsung Charge and Moto Bionic
Since we write mobile software and need to test on a variety of hardware we buy a lot of phones. And I often carry two phones around, an Android device and my iPhone. Sometimes I forward my main number, which is associated with my Verizon iPhone, to my Android device. Alas, I can’t forward the texts.
I am a Verizon customer and typically only carry Verizon phones. I used ATT for three or so years when that was the only way to get an iPhone in the US, but returned to Verizon when I could. Verizon is not perfect and it’s expensive, but they offer by far the best service in the US. Being on Verizon limits me to their Android handsets.
Friends and family who are verizon customers often ask me what phone they should get to replace their aging handset. Short answer today: none. Wait. There are better options coming.
I carried the Samsung Droid Charge for about six weeks before passing it on to someone else at the company. The LTE network was fast, but the phone itself was dog slow. It was slow enough that I had to train myself to pause after taking actions or I would take the same action twice.
Speed was the number one problem on the Charge. People look at me funny when I say that because it’s an LTE phone and we all know that LTE is fast. Yes, LTE is fast, and if you enjoy running speedtest.net on the phone all day to confirm the speed of your local 4G network, then this phone is for you. But if you are hoping to do more than that, say, maybe, read email or browse the web, then you will be disappointed.
Battery life is the second issue on the Charge. It won’t last a day on medium usage. It’s a 3pm phone. That’s a non-starter when I am traveling.
People also rave about the contrast, saturation and viewing angle of the OLED display on the Charge. Yes, those things are all there, but what they forget to mention is the terrible color accuracy and overblown reds that detract from looking at photos on the device.
The weight of the Charge is manageable. Officially it’s 5.0 oz. By contrast, the iPhone 4.8 oz. The size of the phone is significantly larger than the iPhone and not completely comfortable in the hand. It’s hard to reach for some of the bottom buttons. But overall, the Charge has pretty good ergonomics.
Other nice features: you can take a screenshot with the Charge (samsung addition); there is a pretty nice dock that turns the phone into a bedside alarm clock and charges a second battery (which you will need). Samsung puts controls for wifi and bluetooth in the notification bar.
I downloaded and paid for a clean copy of the Android 2.3 keyboard because the 2.2 keyboard that Samsung ships is not great and the phone has not yet been updated to 2.3.
The Droid Bionic I have only had for a few days. It’s heavier than the Charge, coming in at 5.6 oz. The screen has better color rendition, although you can see some pixelation. Viewing angle is inferior.
But the big news with the Bionic is that the phone itself is fast, more than fast enough that I don’t think about the speed.
Moto’s customization of the Android UI is not attractive to me and the phones ships with lot’s of crapware. You can’t remove the crapware unless you root the phone, which I have not done. I downloaded Go Launcher to change the home screen. That made me marginally happier. Battery life is still under review by me but my guess is that it will be a 5pm phone.
The phone feels less plasticy in the hand than the Charge, but the ergonomics are no better and possibly worse with a power button that is on the top left.
Neither of these phones are anywhere near as polished as the iPhone 4 in terms of the physical hardware. We also are running iOS 5 on our iPhones (we are developers) and although we can’t review or talk about any specific features until Apple releases that, Apple is working through the list of shortcomings of the iPhone versus Android that I outlined about one year go.
So as a Verizon customer right now, my recommendation would be to wait. If you love iOS and the iPhone, then the rumors say the iPhone 5 is imminent. If you are a lover of the Robot then wait for the rumored Nexus Prime. I don’t think LTE is worth the sacrifice in battery life, weight and size that it requires today. The rumor is that Apple is not putting LTE into the iPhone 5 and given the battery life, size and weight of the first generation of LTE phones, I think that was a smart decision on their part.
Finally, some will be asking Android vs iOS? What’s better? My feeling is that Apple has the better product. The main deficiency today is the lack of turn by turn navigation, which you can solve by buying a third party GPS app for the iPhone (I bought the TomTom app, which works adequately if not brilliantly;traffic is an added yearly subscription; TomTom customer support, if you have the misfortune to contact them, is HORRIBLE).
Android is also very strong if you are a Google Apps user. The integration with Google Apps makes it an attractive option for those users. If you are a Google apps user on the iPhone, make sure you configure your account as an Exchange account against m.google.com versus setting your account up as a Gmail account. You will get contact synchronization that way.
The Robot Gets Some Love – Announcing Phanfare for Android
We are pleased to announce Phanfare for Android, available immediately in the Android Market.
The Phanfare Android App will allow you to upload photos and videos directly to your Phanfare account from your Android smartphone.
We took a different design approach with our Android App versus our iOS App. Because Android allows tighter integration, we were able to extend the sharing feature built directly into the Android Gallery App to include Phanfare as a destination.
We plan to continue to improve the Phanfare Android App. This first version is just an uploader. We plan to add viewing and controlling of your Phanfare account and eventually will bring the App to parity with the Phanfare iOS App.
Because Android has no review process and we can fix problems much more responsively, you can expect more frequent updates and a little more risk taking on our part in terms of the stability of any given release and potential bugs, especially early on.
Thanks for your patience with us on Android. We heard loud and clear from our customers that it was time to give the green robot some love after focusing exclusively on iOS for nearly three years on the mobile side.
We would love to hear your feedback both in the comments and directly in reviews in the Android Market store.
Smartphone Adoption Among Phanfare Customers
In our recent customer survey, 67% of Phanfare customers reported carrying a smartphone, which we defined as a sophisticated cell phone with a required data plan, like a Blackberry or iPhone, that allows you to read email and surf the web from your phone.
That’s at least four times the world-wide average for smartphone adoption and points to Phanfare customers generally being better educated and having higher household incomes than the average consumer.
We asked Phanfare customers to tell us what type of smartphone they carry. The iPhone was more popular than the RIM Blackberry and Android devices combined, with 49% of Phanfare customers reporting they carry an iPhone. This does not even include the number of Phanfare customers who carry non-cellular iOS devices like the iPod Touch, or the iPad, which we excluded in our definition above.
Android and RIM Blackberry were tied at 20%. Palm WebOS (Pre) had a dismal 3%. Symbian barely registered at 1%, probably showing the US bias in our customer base.
Note that Windows Mobile is stuck in other. Windows Mobile deserves its own category but they have so little mindshare in our heads that when we created the survey, we forgot to add them as a named category!
Our intuition has been that the Phanfare demographic was the exact group of people who buy and like Apple’s high end products. This data would seem to confirm that, with the caveat that our bias toward supporting iOS might cause some self-selection in terms of who our customers are.
The iPhone is more than twice as popular as Android or RIM with the iPhone only available through AT&T in the US. Imagine what the statistics would be if there was a Verizon iPhone.
Google Needs Apple to Innovate in TV
Apparently Google is having trouble getting TV content providers and distributors on board with Google TV. No surprise there. Traditional cable companies and other players have little incentive to give up control to Google, whom they view more as a competitor than a partner.
Android was accepted by incumbents precisely because the carriers and handset manufacturers were afraid of Apple’s momentum. Motorola, Samsung, and LG needed to figure out how they were going to respond to the iPhone. Google offered their Android OS for free and offered ad-split revenue to carriers and the deal was done. But it was a deal with the devil because the Android handset manufacturers as a group are not making much money. Apple took their profits.
What Google needs right now is for Apple (or someone else) to innovate in TV. Then, maybe, the incumbents will be receptive to Google’s advances. Apple is working on such innovation with their rumored new iTV box, which will provide an application platform that will likely run existing iOS apps. Nevertheless, as Tim Cook has said, Apple believes all these efforts might be marginal until the technology is integrated into the TV set itself, something he claims Apple does not want to do (until the day they do it).
Traditional disruption, described in the Innovator’s Dilemma, is about a cheaper technology sneaking up on incumbent players who are focused on serving their best customers – customers who find the performance of the cheaper new technology to be unacceptable. As time progresses, the new technology matures to the point where it performs acceptably for the mass market, and the market moves to the disrupter.
TV is ripe to be disrupted. It’s expensive for consumers. But you have to remember that you can’t make TV better. According to Nielsen, Americans already watch more than 35 hours per week of it. Watching HD TV over FIOS with a Tivo on a 52 inch Samsung LCD TV is near nirvana. You can only make TV cheaper.
It’s not likely that Apple will disrupt TV by making it cheaper. As the premium provider, they nearly always focus on making things better, not cheaper. Apple did not disrupt cell phones in the traditional sense by making them cheaper. What they did is introduce such a compelling innovation from a user experience standpoint that the least price sensitive, most profitable part of the market moved to the new technology. And then Google’s Android offered a low-cost good-enough alternative to feature phones that offered similar benefits. That’s par for the course in the technology world. What is unique about the iPhone story is just how fast the market is transitioning to smart phones and how rapidly all the profits moved to the early leader in that technology.
Long story short, Google is not going to have much luck with Google TV unless they can offer TV for less for consumers. I think Boxee has the better approach there. That’s traditional disruption. Boxee is a mediocre experience at best today compared to FIOS attached to a Tivo with an HDTV, but it’s free.
Cablevision’s best customers are not asking for low-def TV with fewer channels, constantly shifting line-ups and mediocre picture quality. And even if Cablevision sees the Boxee threat, they don’t want to give up their rich subscription revenue business to answer it. But each year Boxee will get better. And if Joe sixpack walks into a Best Buy and is told that the Boxee integrated Vizio TV in the corner does not require a cable subscription and will save him $1200/year, he will likely take the offer even if that TV offers a slightly worse experience. And that will be the end of the TV franchise as we know it.
Droid X is a Poor Replacement for Verizon MiFi
One of the reasons I got a Droid X is that I thought it could replace my Verizon MiFi hotspot when I travel. The cost of carrying the Droid X and the cost of carrying the MiFi are within $20/month of each other.
Last weekend I traveled to Durango, CO with my family and tried to use the Droid X as I would have used the MiFi: To create a WiFi hotspot that connects to Verizon’s CDMA data network so that my iPhone and laptop could get data.
As expected, my AT&T iPhone showed “No Service” nearly the entire time I was in Durango (we were in the woods). My Droid X showed service nearly all the time, although the service was spotty.
Unfortunately, the Hot Spot feature of the Droid X is nearly useless compared to the MiFi. First, it times out deliberately after ten minutes of inactivity even if the Droid X is plugged in. This makes zero sense. Hence, you can’t just plug the Droid X in and provide data for a period of days in a foreign location. Instead, whenever you want to use your laptop, you need to go to the phone, navigate to the hotspot app and turn it on.
But that is not the worst of it. Even if you are continually using the device that is connected to the Droid X, the hotspot randomly turns off periodically. In my experience I got about 5 minutes of work before it would fail. Utterly useless.
There is some chatter on the Moto forums that the Droid X brings the hotspot down when it loses the CDMA uplink. Ok, it was a pretty spotty in Durango. I tried the hotspot again in Princeton, NJ when I returned. Same thing.
I had better luck using Bluetooth to attach the laptop. To do that, I paired the laptop (Macbook) with the Droid X over Bluetooth and then used the built-in networking on the Mac to establish a data connection over Bluetooth. I just had to Google for what username and password to use on the modem configuration screen (not sure the values mattered; what probably mattered is that my Droid X was provisioned for tethering). That link, once established, worked very well.
That said, I found that because I had the Droid X, I needed the MiFi a lot less because the Droid X is a perfectly fine email and web device and did work reliably over Verizon’s network. The big thing I missed: My iPhone takes great photos and I can email a downsampled version of a photo. The Droid X takes mediocre photos and as far as I can tell, you can’t downsample a photo when you email it via Gmail. Maybe that’s solved in Froyo.
If you have a MiFi and love it, don’t trade it in for a Droid X. You will be disappointed.
My Week with Android: Action Items for Apple
My week with Android is over. I am back to my iPhone. I dropped a call on the way in to work. Good to be back.
I truly believe that Apple has the better product right now. The hardware is smaller, lighter, and more attractive. The software is more intuitive, better polished and better looking.
Nevertheless, Android is gaining momentum. Here are the things that apple must do to address some of the advantages of Android.
- Solve the dropped call program in the US. I am putting this separately since there is some anecdotal evidence mounting that the problem is not purely related to ATT and that other ATT phones hold calls better.
- Offer the iPhone on Verizon. Verizon is the strongest carrier in the US. Nearly everyone I meet that owns an Android-based Verizon phone tells me they would have chosen an iPhone over an Android device had it been available.
- Include turn by turn navigation on the iPhone built in. This will require an enormous capital outlay to get permanent and unfettered access to the dataset needed. Navteq is owned by Nokia. So that is pretty much out of the question for Apple. Tele Atlas is owned by Tom Tom. Tom Tom’s market cap is only (Euros) 1.09B. Apple should just buy them and include as much of their tech as possible in iPhones. Mapping and navigation are core to smart phones and Apple needs to remove the dependency on Google.
- Better integrate voice-to-text on the iPhone. Being able to hit the microphone button in all contexts (SMS, email) and include a sentence by voice is very convenient on the Droid X. Apple could possibly license the tech from Nuance, or buy Nuance for stock. Voice is a critical part of the mobile experience.
- Provide Mobile Me (email, contacts, calendar) for free for Apple customers. One of the best things about the Android experience is the tight support between Gmail and Android. There are built in Calendar and Gmail apps for Android that integrate better with Google’s services than Apple’s Mail and Calendar program do. Phanfare uses Google Apps and I will miss the built in apps.
- Provide a 3G mobile hot-spot for the iPhone. Can cost extra. I wound up trying Android because I continued to maintain an Verizon MiFi for business when I switched from ATT to the iPhone. When the Droid X started shipping with the mobile hot spot, I realized that for maybe $20/month more, I could move service from the MiFi to the Droid X and have not only a mobile hot spot when traveling but also a verizon phone for calling. I realize the mobile hotspot will kill the battery. That’s ok.
If Apple addresses these issues, I believe that Android momentum will stall. Long run, Android may still win with their multi-vendor low-cost approach. But it will take a lot longer if Apple takes care of these items.
Droid Day 6: Swype is great if you flour your finger
One of the major benefits of Android, according to its boosters, is that Android is open. So open in fact that you can even change the default text input method. My Droid X came with Swype, a new fangled way of entering text by drawing a path through the letters.
I have been using Swype for the last couple of days. Overall, I find it is faster to type text when that text contains lots of english words. But if the text contains lots of numbers or other abbreviations that Swype does not know, the regular keyboard is faster.
The other caveat is that Swype only really works well when your finger tip is very dry. My hands are pretty dry overall. I have no problem manipulating a pool cue without powder. But using my Droid X, I often found that my finger tip was too moist to easily draw paths between the letters. When you want to repeat a letter, for instance in the word “soon,” you are supposed to draw a little circle around the repeated letter. This action was hard to do accurately or quickly unless my fingers were very dry.
I never remembered it being difficult to slide my finger across the screen on the iPhone. After all, this i how you scroll. I got the iPhone 4 out and compared the devices next to each other, pretending to Swype on the iPhone. My finger slid across the glass much more easily on the iPhone. Maybe that is due to the special coating that Apple adds to make it easier to clean the glass?
Eager to see if getting my finger super-dry would make it easier to Swype on the Droid X, I dipped my finger tip in all purpose baking flour and then tried swype. Then it worked very well and was very easy to type English words pretty fast. Alas, I don’t carry flour and don’t like having flour particles on my screen, so this is probably not a good solution.
On my Droid X, due to the difficulty of swyping when my fingers are anything but bone dry, I would turn off Swype. On my iPhone 4, I think it would work better, but there I would not likely use it because on the iPhone, I can actually type on the regular keyboard. I am not great at typing on the Moto Android touch keyboard. Bottom line, Swype did not win my over. Not that Moto does have it as the default on the Droid X.
Droid Day 4: Droid Does
Droid does:
- reset the volume on my Jawbone bluetooth headset each time I reconnect.
- cause the message “this disk is not readable by this computer” when plugged into my MacBook Pro. (Easily fixed by following these instructions).
- eat through my battery by late afternoon, unless I reboot it periodically to kill errant processes. Note that running Advanced Task Killer did not fix it.
- require that itunes purchases be upgraded to iTunes plus before synching music (yeah, I get it).
- require you to discover the doubletwist program to sync your music. It does sort of sync, although songs from compilation albums like movies cause the album name to dupe in the library.
- not have a built-in stop watch.
- does not take a signature in gmail that is longer than five lines.
- have a very quirky and annoying cursor placement on the Droid X
- not control my whole house sound system from Request.
- not control my iTunes connected to my Apple Airport Express, the way I play music at home into the Request.
- have pretty cool and accurate voice-to-text built in
- have street by street navigation that I am eager to try.
- bring out the geek in my old friends from BlackRock. They put me on to this nifty tool from AppBrain that will keep track of which apps are installed and allow me to install apps from the web. Here’s a list of my installed apps. They also gave me instructions on rooting the phone and getting custom ROMs for it. Really.
- hold a call on Verizon (droid x) without dropping, pretty much indefinitely.
- perform adequately.
For me, it comes down to whether I want a small smart phone with a great user experience, good battery life (not something you could say before iPhone 4) or a slightly annoying but ultimately serviceable smart phone with very reliable voice calls and better network coverage.
I will probably switch back to the iPhone 4 this Sunday but will likely carry the Droid when I travel both as a wifi hotspot and for more reliable phone calls and service.
Day 3 with Android: Understanding Apple
In the United States, high-end Android phones and iPhones are essentially the same price. The Droid X was $199 after rebate, and the iPhone 4 is $199.
Apple made a very deliberate decision in the US to achieve that price parity. They gave an exclusive to ATT, a weaker carrier, in exchange for a whopping subsidy by ATT. The result is that Apple is able to hit the price point that they believed was a necessity to achieve mass market adoption of smart phones. But, they limited themselves to those people willing to use ATT, which is a clear #2 to Verizon in the US.
ATT traded a lot of their profitability to Apple to get the exclusive on the iPhone, a bet that has clearly paid off. Without the iPhone, ATT would almost certainly have shed subscribers to Verizon in the last few years.
But if you look at International markets that enforce transparency, we are able to see the pricing disparity of the iPhone versus Android. In Denmark, the six month cost to own an iPhone 4 is $885, versus $460 to own the LG GT 460 (android) or HTC Wildfire (android). The iPhone 4 cost of ownership is 2x.
And while it’s easy to guess that if Verizon had the iPhone 4, it would outsell Moto Android phones at the same price, the pricing probably would not be the same on Verizon. If Verizon offered the same subsidy to Moto and Apple, Droids would be cheaper.
Android is well positioned to be cheaper. Multiple handset manufactures (Moto, HTC, Samsung) are fiercely competing for consumers but those competitors are unable to differentiate themselves because they all run the same OS. The result is that consumers do shop based on price and the handset makers earn significantly less than Apple does.
Another factor that leads to Android being cheaper for consumers is that the carriers like Verizon junk up the handset with branding and offers. Like a PC with crapware pre-installed, the cost of the hardware to consumers is subsidized by the companies that pay to put their offers on the device. You can be sure that Blockbuster paid to have their app pre-installed on the Droid X I just bought. If Verizon had the iPhone, they would not get to offset the price off the handset by selling space to marketing partners. Apple would certainly not allow it.
Meanwhile, Google develops the Android OS and charges nothing for its use, content to play the long game and own the software platform so that it is receptive to Google advertising. All this has the effect of lowering the cost of the device to consumers.
The final factor that props up Android in the US is that Verizon, in a brilliant marketing play, owns the Droid brand, backs it with $100MM of advertising per year and doles out the Droid monicker to particular handsets if and only if the handset manufacturers is willing to accept tight subsidies and Verizon co-branding of the experience and crapware.
It really is Mac vs PC all over again. The Android OS is positioned as a multi-vendor, good-enough, cheaper alternative to Apple’s finely crafted but tightly controlled solution. But unlike MS that wanted to be paid to install their OS, Google is giving it away (for now).
Apple has enormous manufacturing scale now. Nobody can build an iPhone for less than Apple. And Apple is the early leader with more applications. Apple is the innovator. But ultimately, Apple will probably be a minority player in smart phones over the long haul, content to accept 20% of the market and 80% of the profits. Why?
The reason I believe is that Apple is driven by different goals than Google. Apple is driven by a desire to see their vision of the world realized. Their goal is self-actualization. In their vision of the world, smartphones are elegant, uncluttered and tasteful. They don’t have porn. They are not tainted by low-brow marketing tactics of the carriers. Apple allowed ATT to sell its holy iPhone only if they would sell it exactly as the artist, Apple, intended it. They could not brand it, put anything on it or control how its used. Is Apple controlling? You bet. And you can see Apple’s orientation in the spoof video they showed at the front of the Antennagate conference? You don’t like the iPhone 4? Don’t buy it.
Google on the other hand is driven by a desire to see open and free access to information. They see mobile as a growing and important way that consumers access information and they want to make sure they can continue to be influential there. In short, Google is hell bent to organize the world’s information (for free) and Apple is hell bent to bring elegance, grace and art to our lives, but only to those who appreciate it.
Android will win this war if your definition of success is handsets sold. When the iPhone eventually does come to Verizon, people will prefer it but only if its the same price and it probably won’t be. But the good news is that this time, unlike in the Mac vc PC battle, Apple will have an installed base of one billion devices at some point and there will always be great support from ISVs for the platform.
So who’s right, Apple or Google? Well, that’s hard to say. There are people starving in the world and yet we still have art museums. Is it more useful to dedicate yourself to art or to feeding the world? Both increase human happiness. It seems that we need a balance and with Apple and Google, we have it.
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