I am in a mixed phone relationship. It is a fact.
So, what is a mixed phone union?
Well, it is exactly as it sounds: one partner has the superior phone – an iPhone – and the other has some kind of Android situation.
The stickiest point of our blended tech relationship?
It is our confusing charger situation.
We have approximately 29,873 chargers for computers, phones and iPads.
Of course, I cannot use his and he cannot use mine because they simply do not fit.
I find this charger chaos more irritating than when my husband leaves the loo seat up.
Facetime? Well, it is simply too tricky, so instead, we have to use the Messenger video facility. It is boring and annoying.
Don’t get me started on group texts. I don’t get them. Instead, I get strange, coloured bubble messages.
AirDropping? The inferior Androids cannot do it with my lovely iPhone.
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The cloud? Well, I am paying money to have my devices backed up while hubby pays for Google Drive storage. Another frustration.
Could this phone divide be any more controversial?
Experts say it is the new Coke vs Pepsi debate, or even like Ford vs Holden. For the record, hubby and I don’t agree on cola, but we are both Ford fans at least.
How about Friends vs Seinfeld? We are on opposite teams here as I am a long-standing Friends girl.
Speaking of my favourite friend, remember when Jen and Brad broke up? It was team Jen versus team Angelina. I needed to sit down when my husband confessed he was team Angelina (it’s those Tomb Raider shorts!).
Batman vs Superman? Again, opposites. Batman is a rich guy with fancy gadgets, not a “super” hero.
Thankfully, we are aligned on the two big topics.
No, I don’t mean politics and religion.
We are both Queenslanders when it comes to State of Origin, and we both only ever buy blocks of fruit and nut.
Phew!
Who would have thought football and chocolate would save a technologically strained marriage?
Sami Muirhead is a radio announcer, blogger and commentator. For more from Sami, tune into Mix FM.
