Being an early adopter might have its perks, but, as most things of this nature go, it's usually a lot of personal ones. Some folks might like to get some jealous looks from friends and what not when they've got that hard-to-get device, but the majority of the good news comes from the fact you actually got it. You get to use the new device from Google, or Apple, or Samsung before a lot of other folks, and try out everything they have to offer.

Of course, some people just don't want to be an early adopter. And they have good reasons! Technology can be pretty fickle, especially when it comes to smartphones, and sometimes things don't work the way they are advertised right out of the gate. Some parts of the whole package can be pretty janky, and not everyone wants to deal with that.

Which makes perfect sense.

This year has been okay, overall, for early adopters, I think. At least through the first half of the year. Things got a bit shaky towards the end here, though. With the Pixel 2 XL display issues, for example. Google gives a good reason not to be an early adopter, if you don't want to mess around with those kinds of issues. They will be fixing as much as they can through software updates, which means the folks who wait will get a different, maybe even better experience right from the start. Meanwhile, early adopters might have to live with the issues they have, at least for a few more weeks (hopefully sooner than that).

And then here comes the iPhone X, which should work right out of the box like any other iPhone will. However, there is one detail that many people are skeptical about: Face ID. Apple's new, all-in biometric security measure. Touch ID is gone in Apple's new flagship, and so Apple's going with facial recognition instead. A lotof people keep talking about the likelihood of the feature not working as Apple intends to start.

I've had multiple conversations about it, and one of them was with someone who bought an iPhone 8 Plus because they didn't want to use Face ID in the iPhone X. Not because they don't want to use facial recognition, or because they aren't ready to give up Touch ID just yet. But solely for the reason they think Face ID will be janky for a little while.

Being an early adopter has its trade-offs, but so does waiting. So I'm curious, in today's age, are you an early adopter? Have you always been one? Or, on the other side of the coin, were you once an early adopter who has decided waiting isn't a bad thing? Let me know!