With Apple and Android! :smile:
Over the last year I have been running all three ecosystems in my house as an experiment, My immediate and extended family had access to a wide range of products to play with at their leisure. I had iPads, iPhones, and apple TV's running alongside my windows phones, PC, XBOX 360's and nexus phones and Chromecasts' etc. Everyone could experiment at their hearts content.
I gave everyone their own user id and told everyone to just use what they wanted to, no strings attached. I then watched what they used and how much they enjoyed using it. I noticed that we used less and less of the apple and Google products. The family eventually settled on using most of the windows stuff over everything else. Except the wife, ill have to pry her iPhone from her cold dead hands.
Most of us now have windows phones because of how affordable they are. We use the Xbox 360 for games and in conjunction with Media Center for all our TV needs. Netflix and Hulu on the Xbox with no gold account required is great!. I now use my surface pro to game everywhere! I even put media center on it so I can basically have a portable HD TV when I can connect to my home WiFi and grab a tuner from the network. The Chromecast was just to hard for my family to figure out without a lot of help. I was trying to remember the last time we turned on the apple TV as I was disconnecting it earlier today. Chromecast too.
Anyways, I figured I would share a little about my experience with using everything. Not everything Windows was better for sure. But overall things seem to be starting to come together. If I had to name one thing that kept me with the Windows stuff it would be OneDrive. Once I got it all set up and saw everything sync to everything else it was a moment of clarity for me. Icloud drive on apple has to be one of the worst software implementations that I have ever seen. I'm a pretty smart tech guy and I could barely figure it out.
If anyone has any questions about what I did or what I used, just let me know. I'll be happy to answer anything.
Its good to be back...
Over the last year I have been running all three ecosystems in my house as an experiment, My immediate and extended family had access to a wide range of products to play with at their leisure. I had iPads, iPhones, and apple TV's running alongside my windows phones, PC, XBOX 360's and nexus phones and Chromecasts' etc. Everyone could experiment at their hearts content.
I gave everyone their own user id and told everyone to just use what they wanted to, no strings attached. I then watched what they used and how much they enjoyed using it. I noticed that we used less and less of the apple and Google products. The family eventually settled on using most of the windows stuff over everything else. Except the wife, ill have to pry her iPhone from her cold dead hands.
Most of us now have windows phones because of how affordable they are. We use the Xbox 360 for games and in conjunction with Media Center for all our TV needs. Netflix and Hulu on the Xbox with no gold account required is great!. I now use my surface pro to game everywhere! I even put media center on it so I can basically have a portable HD TV when I can connect to my home WiFi and grab a tuner from the network. The Chromecast was just to hard for my family to figure out without a lot of help. I was trying to remember the last time we turned on the apple TV as I was disconnecting it earlier today. Chromecast too.
Anyways, I figured I would share a little about my experience with using everything. Not everything Windows was better for sure. But overall things seem to be starting to come together. If I had to name one thing that kept me with the Windows stuff it would be OneDrive. Once I got it all set up and saw everything sync to everything else it was a moment of clarity for me. Icloud drive on apple has to be one of the worst software implementations that I have ever seen. I'm a pretty smart tech guy and I could barely figure it out.
If anyone has any questions about what I did or what I used, just let me know. I'll be happy to answer anything.
Its good to be back...