I get paid to do it?
One of the labels they put under my name on the "Org Chart" is CTO. Been here 15 years and they know I could care less about titles, but it's important to the other officers. Anyways, to answer your question, I am that guy that has to often answer the questions in meetings about our future technology decisions. I am NOT someone who gets those answers from someone else. I will not plagiarize or quote others' opinions. I must know for myself.
So, I have the sheer joy of test driving anything and everything that might appear to be applicable for our future. It's not a huge company, by any means, but the technology budget isn't small either. And our culture is loose and flexible, so I can't be real "careful" by enforcing slow change.
None of this is a complaint. We are open 24\7\365, and I don't ever remember dreading what I do.
By the way, I have a stack of Apple products that were my personal arsenal just a few short years ago. I took my SIM out of an IPhone 4 and put it into a L920 to check what this new Windows Phone experience would be like. So many things changed that day. I didn't see that coming. IMac became a small form factor pc. MacBook became a SP2. The 920 only stayed with me until the 1520 showed up. I have been using 1520's department wide since. And the Walmart 640's are a lowest common denominator for code testing the mobile UI and functionality of our new apps.
Fast forward to W10 and I am more enthusiastic about the next 24 months than I think I ever have been about any 24 month period. I can barely sleep at night while I have the development department working on Universal Apps. Completely unbundling our X86 applications and working towards revolutionary ways of running our business. Stunning stuff, really.
So, you asked! I am running 10572 because it is just ONE way to test our code.
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