Embracing Android

Happy New Year!  I ' ll be posting blog entries twice a week in 2019, describing my experiences in the healthcare IT innovation economy and international digital health.Throughout my history in the industry, I ’ve tested many emerging technologies and tried to predict future winners.  Here ' s a CIO magazine article from 2007 in which I replaced my computing platforms each month to rigorously testWindows vs. Linux vs. OSXIn the late 2000 ' s, I felt that Microsoft had lost its agility and focused on adding features that few people wanted at the expense of usability.  I switched to Apple products because the software felt more utilitarian, secure and stable.Now, I ' m asking if Android and Chrome OS has the balance of features and usability that best meet my requirements for 2019.I ' ve moved to my phone to a Google Pixel 3 to help answer that question.Thus far, my experience has been remarkable - a good mixture of speed, stability and usability.  I think of it as a toolbox that doesn ' t prompt me to adopt functions that I don ' t want. One of the best features is a simple consolidated notifications display that enables me to scroll down from the top of the screen and see every change that has occurred since I last picked up the phone - email, texts, app messages, reminders, and calls.The gestures are intuitive.  The browser is Chrome (works everywhere with everything) and the email client is the highly usable and stable Gmail clientI ' ve...
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