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Why do only complaints and rants about how awful iPads are get posted here?
I use several iPads; and they work well for me, enrich my life.


Why don't we see postings such as; How do I do this or that? What's an
app for doing ....? What are best free games?

Ed
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Op 05/07/2025 om 20:04 schreef Ed Cryer:

Why do only complaints and rants about how awful iPads are get posted here?
I use several iPads; and they work well for me, enrich my life.

Why don't we see postings such as; How do I do this or that? What's an
app for doing ....? What are best free games?

Ed

I have an ipad and regularly use it, I think there are good reasons to complain about the ipad. On the other hand it also works to some degree,
so it's not all negative. It's just that apple intentionally makes many
things very hard. I also have an android device and though there are complaints that would apply to both android and apple (like all the
useless crap apps that primarily seem intended to rip people off), in
many respects android does many things much better, like how
comparatively easy it is
to access the file system.
You may feel that it works well for you, but perhaps you are simply not
a very demanding user and you are easily satisfied because you are
unaware of what's possible and to what degree apple obstructs people
from exploiting the full potential of information technology.

The future still looks bright with developments in AI and hopefully tech tyrants like apple and google will soon be consigned to the recycle bin
of historical curiosities, once AI revolutionizes information
technology. At that point we can all agree to get rid of a
pseudo-capitalist system with fake competition (given all the monopoly
power big corporations have with neither transparency nor
accountability) that drives humanity to the brink of self-annihilation
by producing way too much useless garbage. We're already living in the
age of abundance with all the culture freely accessible online.
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sobriquet wrote:

Op 05/07/2025 om 20:04 schreef Ed Cryer:

Why do only complaints and rants about how awful iPads are get posted
here?
I use several iPads; and they work well for me, enrich my life.


Why don't we see postings such as; How do I do this or that? What's an
app for doing ....? What are best free games?

Ed

I have an ipad and regularly use it, I think there are good reasons to complain about the ipad. On the other hand it also works to some degree,
so it's not all negative. It's just that apple intentionally makes many things very hard. I also have an android device and though there are complaints that would apply to both android and apple (like all the
useless crap apps that primarily seem intended to rip people off), in
many respects android does many things much better, like how
comparatively easy it is
to access the file system.
You may feel that it works well for you, but perhaps you are simply not
a very demanding user and you are easily satisfied because you are
unaware of what's possible and to what degree apple obstructs people
from exploiting the full potential of information technology.

The future still looks bright with developments in AI and hopefully tech tyrants like apple and google will soon be consigned to the recycle bin
of historical curiosities, once AI revolutionizes information
technology. At that point we can all agree to get rid of a pseudo- capitalist system with fake competition (given all the monopoly power
big corporations have with neither transparency nor accountability) that drives humanity to the brink of self-annihilation by producing way too
much useless garbage. We're already living in the age of abundance with
all the culture freely accessible online.

iPads and iPhones look very closed systems to computer professionals and people brought up on the early versions of Windows.
But why does (an did from the start) Apple do it?
To protect their copyright and interests?
Maybe.
But, how about this? To protect the non-savvy? To ward off the scammers
from the millions of buyers who wouldn't buy if they weren't safe?

Look at how Windows is going. MS are following Apple and the path to protection. Look at how they've even had to jettison billions of dollars
of customers' hardware with the introduction of Windows 11 with its TPM
and other security measures.

The criminal world has grown tech-savvy, and it's the young and old that
get scorched.
How would you feel about walking the streets of Old Town in some major
western city without police available and all lights on at night?

Ed

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On 2025-07-05 18:04:29 +0000, Ed Cryer said:

Why do only complaints and rants about how awful iPads are get posted here?
I use several iPads; and they work well for me, enrich my life.

Why don't we see postings such as; How do I do this or that? What's an
app for doing ....? What are best free games?

Ed

Because the newsgroup is infested with cross-posting moron trolls, and
other fools keep replying to them rather than just ignoring them. :-(

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