Google isn’t cool or hip or trendsetting. Apple is all of those things.
Google is practical. Google is smart. Google isn’t high design – its public design. Its utilitarianism without any brushed aluminum or high tensile titanium.
Google breaks molds (ms office paradigm) and educates. It connects. It connects people and ideas and products.
I currently have accounts or profiles or have used 16 different Google sites and services. Last year, the company I worked for moved our mail server to Gmail and I now use Chrome, Gmail, Calendar and Docs as my mainstay at work. Google is infiltrating my life.
Practically everything I have ever touched that has the name Google on it amazes me and helps me be creative and helps me expand my knowledge.
The newly announced Google Nexus One phone, I expect, will do the same. Google people are ridiculously smart. I’ve been waiting for this convergent device since I bought my first IPaq Pocket PC in the mid 2000′s. That day has come.
PS – Alice is the love of my life.
Rob lives and works in the town of Jackson, MS where he leads the interactive department at an awesome advertising and branding agency. Life is slower than most places in Mississippi, and Rob tends to like it that way. Some of his favorite life experiences include sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a 44ft sloop, learning to speak Swahili while living along the lower slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, and zipping along the curviest of Mississippi country roads in his VW Rabbit.