I hope Streetside view comes to Singapore soon!

But wat you describe in your comment sound to be not choosing a gal for the same purpose (dating). They sound like a daughter, mother, wife, girl friend, female friend, female colleague as all of them serve different roles in your life (Mobile Phone, Music Player, Email, Entertainment, Work). In that case, I will agree with your analogy becoz you need all of them since they all serve a different role in part of your life.

I don’t think anyone can legitimately argue that having more choice in this case is bad for the consumer.

As much as we want the epic feeling of three tech giants fighting against each other and hoping for an ultimate winner to emerge, the reality is that all three companies complement each other.

They may compete with each other in many areas, but all the same they also help fill each others’ voids.

Take me as an example. I use a Windows 7 PC for both work and at home. My phone is an iPhone, and despite its flakiness on Wnidows, I use iTunes as my primary media player. I use GMail for my personal email, and iGoogle for my web browser start page, even though I use Bing (US version) as my main search engine. At work, we use SharePoint and Exchange for productivity and collaboration. My destination of choice for viewing movie trailers? You got it… the Apple Movie Trailers site, which I visit at least once a week.

I can’t say I would be any happier or more productive if I just align myself with one company. And I believe most people will agree with me.

I’m a proud polyamorist when it comes to tech, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Just like a pick up artist, at the end he still do have to choose a gal. If he is going to marry all gals (using all technologies). He will have maintain all 3 gals (when majority have problems maintaining just one). Also frequently, the apple & microsoft gal will be asking you to give them money so that you can have more happy moment with them (note: microsoft gal will be asking diff amt claiming that the cost of happy moment vary by her “skills” in which she have to learn, which she actually know from the start. Bloodsucker!!).

However, with all the money and time spend, you also realize you do have unhappy moment (software crashes or security problem?) as each gal have their own characteristic flaw which will also causes you time and money (trouble x 3, whoa!!). With the divided time you spend with each gal, you will not know them well enough too (knowing various hacks & tips in the software).

Not to forget, the 3 gals may not cooperate well with each other (getting windows to read Mac file system?). Buy things for them is also a money draining when they couldn’t share wat they have (2 MS Office license just for mac & windows). They also don’t have the initiative share their knowledge abt u (import & copying preferences & system setting between them) since they do not understand each other well (diff implementations).

In the end, is it a good idea to have all and does it really have the benefit?

However, I will suggest that Microsoft is one of the main reasons why we live in a world today where ample commoditized computing power is everywhere. They are the ones that helped lead the computer revolution for the past two decades. And we can’t deny the fact that millions of companies and enterprises today do depend on them in a day-in-day-out basis.

I like your pick-up artist analogy. However, since we are not in the real world and we are in the world of analogies and metaphors, I would argue that everyone should be a pick-up artist. Because I believe we are all sophisticated enough and diversified enough that frankly speaking, not any one girl can entirely satisfy all of our needs, or even 80% of them.

Why settle for adequacy when you can have it all?

Polyamroy maybe a good idea, however u are juz wasting too much time wandering between 3 gals and leaving no time for urself. Not forgetting that you need to understand & remember each gal characteristic (software services & features) also. If you’re a pick up artist (tech guy who like to all technology) then you might enjoy this kind of relation. However, for the majority, choosing the right gal that suit 80% of their needs is adequate. You can’t have all the thing in the world.

Instead of polyamroy, merging all the 3 gals into a single woman will be a better idea (if that is even possible).

However, I have faith that Windows Mobile 7 will finally make Windows Mobile right, just like Windows 7 made Windows Vista right.

I do think Apple cares a ton about gaming – just perhaps not desktop gaming. Apple is being very aggressive in the hand-held gaming space, trying to position the iPhone and the iPod Touch as a viable competitor to the PSP and Nintendo DS.

I dare say 60-70% of the apps in the iTunes App Store are games…