The Best of Times
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of Android, it was the age of iOS, it was the epoch of Epic 4G, it was the epoch of capped data, it was the season of rooting, it was the season of OTA, it was the spring of Froyo, it was the winter of Oracle, we had Gingerbread before us, we had out of stock before us, we were all going direct to Market, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest patent holders insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.