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OtinG · 09-09-2020, 11:34 AM

I'm not in the market for any new Apple devices this year as my iPhone XR is still more than adequate and I bought an iPad mini 5 a few months ago. Just as well what with the higher prices of many essentials like groceries and TP due to the pandemic and the higher costs of utilities due to a very hot summer. I'm way too much of a klutz to risk wearing an expensive Apple Watch. It probably wouldn't last a month before I broke it. Besides, I don’t see any need for their Watch other than tracking health, but it doesn't do enough yet to warrant buying it. I doubt I will ever buy another Mac, certainly not one with the new chips. I still think they are making a mistake by switching chips. it is difficult to get developers to write apps for macOS now with the Intel chips, switching to whole new system will be disastrous.

I'm mostly hoping that iPadOS 14 is a gillion times better than iPadOS 13. It needs to be. iPadOS 13 reminds me of some of the awful MS Windows versions we had to suffer through. Just to type on my iPads is laborious due to the quirky way it works. It tries to capitalize words in the middle of sentences, it is extremely difficult to position the cursor then select Paste, ad nauseam... Too many editing quirks to even list. Just typing a few paragraphs can take a long time due to constantly having to correct the darn quirks.

I’m glad this will be another online event without all their goofy fanboys acting like Disney animatronics with their feet wired to the electrical grid and programmed to applaud every stupid thing the Apple gurus say. I’m an Apple user and have been for four decades, but their fanboy fueled events tend to make me want to toss my waffles. Personally I wish Apple would just forgo the events altogether and simply post the new goodies on the web with a description of each.

09-09-2020, 11:34 AM	#5
OtinG Old Gadget Guy Posts: 1,913 Karma: 6854865 Join Date: Jun 2018 Device: Oasis 3, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPad mini 6, iPad Air 2020, Alexa Devices	I'm not in the market for any new Apple devices this year as my iPhone XR is still more than adequate and I bought an iPad mini 5 a few months ago. Just as well what with the higher prices of many essentials like groceries and TP due to the pandemic and the higher costs of utilities due to a very hot summer. I'm way too much of a klutz to risk wearing an expensive Apple Watch. It probably wouldn't last a month before I broke it. Besides, I don’t see any need for their Watch other than tracking health, but it doesn't do enough yet to warrant buying it. I doubt I will ever buy another Mac, certainly not one with the new chips. I still think they are making a mistake by switching chips. it is difficult to get developers to write apps for macOS now with the Intel chips, switching to whole new system will be disastrous. I'm mostly hoping that iPadOS 14 is a gillion times better than iPadOS 13. It needs to be. iPadOS 13 reminds me of some of the awful MS Windows versions we had to suffer through. Just to type on my iPads is laborious due to the quirky way it works. It tries to capitalize words in the middle of sentences, it is extremely difficult to position the cursor then select Paste, ad nauseam... Too many editing quirks to even list. Just typing a few paragraphs can take a long time due to constantly having to correct the darn quirks. I’m glad this will be another online event without all their goofy fanboys acting like Disney animatronics with their feet wired to the electrical grid and programmed to applaud every stupid thing the Apple gurus say. I’m an Apple user and have been for four decades, but their fanboy fueled events tend to make me want to toss my waffles. Personally I wish Apple would just forgo the events altogether and simply post the new goodies on the web with a description of each. Last edited by OtinG; 09-09-2020 at 11:42 AM.