A suggestion for fanboys of either persuasion..

I was looking at the list of devices above, and it reminded me how often I'm disappointed by the quality of participants on tech podcasts.

I won't name and shame here, but Apple guys seem to be worse than the more 'open tech' inspired Android enthusiasts. The worst of them are out and out apologists for every Apple fault, and even talk of "Apple Quality", (sorry, but be honest, how many of you have not had or heard of someone with an iPhone who has trouble with the hardware buttons?

Another thing I hear, which makes me groan, is when they infer that if you already have an 'investment' in iPhone apps it makes sense not to try a device from the competition.. a weak argument in my opinion, except for the unfortunate poor.

If you don't make an average investment on both sides of the equation how on earth can you hope to give intelligent advice?! Anyway, apps on both platforms are absurdly cheap.. it isn't going to cost more than a cup of coffee for an 'expensive' app, which you get to use on multiple devices.. get real!

And then there is the supposed question of the quality of Android apps..  I have approximately the same number of apps on both platforms, about 130 I think, and the only application I use on my iPad (iPhone) which I haven't yet found a match for on Android, is Momento, a daily journal. There are no doubt alternatives, but I'm looking for one that can be accessed via Dropbox from both platforms..

Thats enough rant from me. If you want more, try a few tech podcasts ;)

Moved over to Mountain Lion

I installed ML  when it came out first, but having a Lion partition on the same drive as ML caused some problems between iTunes and syncing the iPad and iPhone. i.e. I became frustrated when I had set icons on the above devices just as I wanted them using Lion, only to find them moving all over the place when I ran iTunes on ML.

While having problems with MyFiles, a new Cloud app, I had to dodge back and forth between the two OS versions, which gave me the necessary urge to sort things out. This has taken a couple of days, and no doubt there will be other apps which need to be updated, paired, or sorted out in some way or other.

What do I think of ML vs Lion? No big change..

One app I have been using a lot more than other mindmap apps is Simplemind, which works across the iMacs, iPhone 4, iPad 3, as well as my three active Android devices. Not the sexiest UI but most impressive interconnection via Dropbox.