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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
Why sweat an iPad if you're technical and free to use other devices that will serve you better?
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Honestly? I was given the device and wanted to give it a chance. I tried in vain to make the device practical for my family and it just continues to disappoint. I
want to like it though -- really.
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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
For someone like me, who's not interested in messing with tech, iPad is a great device.
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Your satisfaction is a good thing. You shouldn't own it otherwise.
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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
Seems silly to angst about a company because it makes products you don't want. Apple (or any other company) isn't obligated to serve every customer. Seems to me that it targets a certain customer base and makes good money doing it.
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Most of my angst comes from how I see Apple as taking advantage of people through great marketing. Think of the elderly person who is sold a $1500 computer when all they needed and wanted was a computer that would only cost $250. Or how about the woman who needs an oil change and ends up paying an extra grand for work she never needed... and was only partially complete?
What may seem silly to you is very frustrating for developers who have
you in mind. An example is word processing. There is no free alternative on the iPad and there never will be if iOS remains as it is. People like those wonderful folks over at OpenOffice.org cannot port their code because the operating system is too restrictive as is the requirement of objective-C language only. Apple tries hard to manage its platform because free alternative go against their business practices.
This tech angst may be silly, but it's a real bummer for developers who want to open things up for folks and truly put the consumer first.
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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
If you're technical, you can jailbreak and mess with it, or you can ditch it and move on.
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Jailbreaking is always a solution. Unfortunately, you are punished by a broken warranty, no support, and the chance that a future update can't be hacked.
You're probably right though. I'm just silly. Sorry for the venting. All I wanted was to export annotations. But, I guess expecting that much is expecting too much.
