❧ The Paper Trail

Future-proofing is a big deal for me, whether I’m selecting a blogging service/CMS or a smartphone. It means investing your money and usage in platforms that, in whatever ways applicable,

• have a history of taking care of previous customers
• have a history of providing quality tools and interfaces to developers (the people who make things for customers)
• preserve data long term, and allow you to get your data in and out easily

The attached article shows one major example of how the iPhone platform shines over Android in this regard. Technical specs like screen size and memory don’t seem as important to me as the question “will I regret buying this thing in one year when the next version of software comes out?”