I have learnt a valuable lesson today...communication is key. I hate that we've had such a massive breakdown in communication, during our pre-marriage counselling we both agreed time and time again that we have a great ability to communicate openly with one another but here we are, two months in and we've each had to learn not to hide things from our spouse.
Let me explain. My husband and I are both what you would term "early adopters". If there is a new piece of technology, we're buying it. If we haven't bought it, there's probably a very good reason (lack of funds! Or there's a newer, better version on its way!). So when we stayed up on Saturday night/Monday morning to watch the live feeds of Apple's WWDC 2011, it wasn't anything unusual...but it was the start of our problem!
You see, Apple announced iOS 5.0 for the iPhone/iPad and it looked fantastic, they did a great job of selling it to us. This iOS would be bigger and better than all the previous incarnations, it would make our lives pure bliss...but it won't be rolled out to the general public until September. We could wait till then...couldn't we?
Of course, the iOS 5.0 beta was being released to Apple Developers that very day and it wasn't long before the download links were available to me via a quick Google search...the prize was in sight but no, it could not actually be downloaded unless you were a paying Apple Developer. At a cost of $119AUD, was it worth it? Well of course it was worth it! This would get me iOS 5.0 now...there would be no wait for me! Should I tell my husband my plan? No, I would keep this a secret from him, he might get angry at me "wasting" $119 on the Apple Developer program but just wait till I developed an app and made that money back, then he wouldn't care that I had joined the program.
Little was I to know that my husband had, not an hour before, made the decision to join the Apple Developer program and get iOS 5.0. Did he tell me he had decided to do this? No. As a result, we are now two people living in the same household with access to the same iMac with two separate paid Apple Developer accounts...did I mention that you can register other devices and between us we could've shared an account?
As my husband signed up first, he is clearly wrong and I am right!
