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Originally Posted by calvin-c
My Palm Treo finally died so I recently got a Samsung Note II. Works great as an eReader although I had to hunt to find software I liked as well as MobiPocket. I'm still learning how to do other stuff on it. It took over a year before I really knew how to work with my Palm, I see no reason the learning curve for Android should be shorter.
As for computers (and I suspect it'll be true of Android too) lifespan depends more on what you do with them than on the OS. I had a Windows 98 system I used for probably 7 or 8 years. Rebooted it maybe three times/year. But one thing I didn't do was try out a lot of new software on it. I had my production software & that's what I used. It was solid and stayed that way. I could probably still be using it today if I hadn't run out of HD space. (I'll note that as a tech I had multiple PCs-and I did mess up my testbeds regularly trying out new hardware & software. But my production PC I kept stable. And that, I think, is the great thing about Macs-they're so hard to upgrade that people don't mess them up trying new stuff.)
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Yes, so many people have to have the latest updates even if they offer no improvements that they actually need... I like to use my computers, readers etc and generally go for "If it ain't broke, don't fix it..." and "KISS" as they seem to keep me doing things I want to do rather than continually wasting time on fixing things...
