In Reply to: RE: I know I'm probably going to regret asking, but why the relentless Apple bashing? posted by bwb on July 6, 2012 at 15:27:07:
I'm keeping mine too, even though I'm not fond of Apple, the company, the products, the stores, the fans, especially the fans, the hype, the concept...
So why am I "sending this from my iPad"?
Because I'm driven by what things can do, what value they deliver to me, not advertising or the corporation's goodness or badness. For me over the years PC's, starting with the very first one, have delivered the goods while Apples haven't, but the goods I need and value are of not necessarily congruent with those of other users. For instance Apples did what teachers needed with far less strain than PCs. They were bombarded with advertising to make them believe that, but it was also true. Now we all use little Lisas, Jobs, and more accurately Xerox, were right.
I bought this for HW reasons, I was tired of fan and hd failures on laptops and also wanted to try the tablet format and this was the cheapest thing in the store that had reasonable capabilities. But what I really want is XP on a tablet. Maybe next go-round?
Rick
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Follow Ups
- RE: "I'm keeping my iPad though" - rick_m 08:07:08 07/07/12 (5)
- RE: "I'm keeping my iPad though" - fmak 10:00:11 07/09/12 (4)
- "sent from my iXXX" - Tony Lauck 15:31:15 07/09/12 (0)
- RE: "I don't know what you do with it" - rick_m 13:12:03 07/09/12 (0)
- iPAD messaging. - Dynobot 12:44:28 07/09/12 (0)
- People have been compulsively messaging for years with all types of portable devices. - bwb 12:13:48 07/09/12 (0)