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Should I Get A Divorce?
Renegade:
My wife wanted an iPad 2... So we got one... Should I get a divorce? :P
Just kidding! I love my wife more than I could ever say. :-*
Anyways, the tablet market here in Australia is, well, poor in the sense that you can't get a Samsung Galaxy like she first wanted. So, the next best thing looked like an iPad. Seems like Apple has locked Samsung out of most markets for that now.
Naturally it doesn't work out of the box. You have to link it to iTunes first. Ahem... *cough* So, if you previously had a nice clean machine, you'd better infect it if you want to use iPad. (I already have a dedicated virus machine Mac, so it's ok for me. :P )
It is a very nice looking device.
We'll see if it can network better than my virus box Mac.
I think she'll be happy with it though. I have a feeling that it will be mostly used for BeJeweled Blitz and Strategery. :P ;D
lotusrootstarch:
Apple builds great user experience there's nothing wrong with loving Apple stuff. ;D The only thing I don't like about Apple is its ideology/philosophy, otherwise all good.
iPads are dominating the tablet market thanks to the greediness of various Android vendor trying to market immature products at marked-up prices, esp. here in Australia, where you pay a whole lot extra on tech stuff.
Apple pioneered and successfully opened a new market... it is the big corps like HP/Samsung locking themselves out of the market while trying to push noticeably lower value deals at premium costs to customers. The mega fail of WebOS/Touchpad proves the point, it just couldn't hope to take off against iPads (or even Androids) with its pricing.
app103:
I don't know about a divorce, but it is one of the questions my daughter now asks before considering dating a guy:
Do you own a computer? (REQUIRED!) Is it a Mac, and if so, what OS is it running (Linux is OK).
And if a guy talks about his iPad or iPhone the way one would talk about their child or pet, it's over. She doesn't talk about her LG Lotus that way and thinks it's a real turn-off of a guy shows way too much affection for his gadgets. She would rather him talk about his ex-girlfriend. At least that would be a human with the same parts as her, and she could compete with that.
But I already told you what she told that one guy, that wanted to know if all those cool DC AHK tools she had, would run on a Mac. ("Go die in a fire!")
She has already dated a few Mac users and it ended in disaster...they really do think differently. They are OK as friends, but no long term commitment from her. It just wouldn't work.
And I already told her that whoever she ends up with, if he isn't a Windows power user, capable of doing all that stuff she usually gets me to do for her, then she has to start her geek training the day after she gets back from her honeymoon. :D
Ath:
It is a very nice looking device.
-Renegade (September 03, 2011, 12:55 AM)
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I think that sums it up for both the iPad and the iPhone. ;D
I've been carrying an Android for over a year now, and my employer gave me an iPhone 4 about 2 months ago, and being the technocrat I am, the Android is and will be my best friend smartphone for some time to come 8)
doing all that stuff she usually gets me to do
-app103 (September 03, 2011, 02:53 AM)
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Lovely story app :D
nudone:
App, that's a brilliant strategy. Weed out all the posers that have nothing better to talk about than a shinny plastic box. Definitely a good way to avoid years of potential boring psuedo religious gibberish about sublime Apple products spewing forth from your son-in-laws gob.
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