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Originally Posted by jswinden
I've had the Kindle app itself crash a time or two, but it never caused the mini or my other iThingies to crash. Safari crashed my iPhone 5 last Sunday and it took a while to get it to reset. But no crashes like that on the mini yet. I'm still thinking that nearly 500 apps, many of which will run in the background or at least wake up and phone home periodically, is more than any tablet should have. To each their own of course, but I cannot imagine even being able to run 500 apps one time each per month! Just not enough time in my schedule. Do the math. If one ran each of 500 apps for 5 minutes once a month, then one would need to be on their iPad for nearly 41 hours and 40 minutes. In my case there would be a lot of lonely, neglected apps sitting around forever wishing someone would run them.  |
It depends, how "sexy" a gadget is for me.
If it's in my top 3 list, 41 hours per month is "nothing".
My trips on the train typically last 3 to 5 hours (single direction). So this alone easily adds up to 30 to 60 hours per month, most of it spent on some gadget(s).
Add another 2 hours in the evening in hotels or at home on the couch...
I'm using my Surface Pro 2 easily 6 hours per day. And I would use it way more intensively, if I'd have more office stuff to manage.
Just a brief overview:
* 40 standalone books. I could have them in Kindle, Nook or Kobo as well. But I bought them at some stage, so I'm going to read them (some day).
* 171 games. May seem a lot. But I've got way (5 times?) more on my Nvidia Shield. I admit it: I'm collecting, not actually playing.
* 21 productivity app. Mindmaps, GTD and so on.
* 33 news apps. I like to read lots of newspapers, at least the headlines and some articles.
*8 Navigation apps. I'm frequently in new places and like to see some tourist attractions or dine in the right restaurants.
.....
So, the only category where I've got more than 2 or 3 dozens of apps, are games.
Of course I could download every single app "on demand". On the fly via 3G, even when on the train.
But why should I?
Why buy (or, from Apple's perspective: Offer) a 128GB tablet and then not use the storage?
And, again: I'm a collector. I want to scroll through my 200 games, 900 Kindle Books, 300 Nook Books and so on and play or read something, I haven't touched in months.
I don't want to stick to the top 10 or the "5 most likely to play".
And:
iPad, as I had forgotten but see now again, is so stripped down in its possibilities. I can't change fonts in my Emails and other simple tasks.
When I'm that limited in my options, at least the core capabilities should work flawlessly: "There's an app for that". And not "there would be an app, but I don't recommend having more than 10 at a time on your tablet".