Throwing in the towel

There comes a time when you have to accept defeat.  When you know that your endeavours will be fruitless, and the only outcome of further effort will be frustration.

I reached that point today.

After 4 years of Apple fan-dom, I decided to check out the competition, and got the Samsung Galaxy S2 – an Android phone.  When it arrived I was excited and eager to try what the dark side offered.  I set up email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Dropbox… all the usual suspects.  All went fine, until I tried to sync it with my MacBook.

Serious googling before I purchased it convinced me that although it might be a little inconvenient to work with, it wouldn’t be prohibitive.  I was wrong.

I spent 4 hours trying to get it to sync my music to the phone, with 3 different programmes, over USB and over WiFi.  I shouted, shook my fists, banged the table, cried, then got P to try and make it work.  It didn’t.  It just refused to sync.

I started to panic.  I would be stuck with this £400 phone for 18 months, heartbroken and frustrated.  But then I asked myself a question – what am I trying to achieve, forcing myself to use this phone?  I called O2 and put my cards on the table:  this phone is unusable.  It will not speak to my MacBook.  And hurrah!  My begging fell on receptive ears!  I can return it for a replacement.

I am an Mac geek.  Sorry.  I’m going back to iPhone.  I dipped a toe in the Android Sea and didn’t like it.  I’m sailing back to Apple Ocean and will be diving right in.

Now I just need to decide:  do I go straight for the iPhone 4, or do I try to assemble some patience and wait for iPhone 5/ iPhone 4S?