That’s very rude of you to put it like that. Fine, in reply I’ll say this. You waste my time, and others, because you think everyone has the same needs as you. You did it in my thread on iPods (and you are doing it here). Well guess what, I bought exactly what I felt was best after researching and talking to people who didn’t have an agenda. And I am completely happy with my purchase.
Your suggestion for an iPhone was retarded. Simply retarded. I’m not even going to bother explaining why as anyone reading what I needed would not have suggested that.
So that’s why I wrote the warning. You will recommend what you like and what suits you. Even if it means wasting money for the OP and them buying a product that doesn’t do what they want.
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I don’t know what you think my agenda is. Frankly, I don’t care what platform wins. As long as there’s overall growth of computing in people’s lives, I’m happy. My agenda is this: I don’t want people to have bad experiences with technology. I want them to have the best experience they possibly can. Therefore, I cannot and will not recommend products that I would not want to use myself. I am fortunate in that I get to use a lot of different devices all of the time, to use in the office, to take them home to try in earnest, to really use them so we can understand their strengths and weaknesses, so that we can know how best to write software for them. So I am relaying those experiences here. I don’t care what platform wins, only that people have the best experience they possible can, because it grows computing.
The OP said he’s going to be a student. The iPad is ideal for this because the major textbook publishers have committed to publish their textbooks onto iBooks, because many classrooms don’t allow open clamshell computers but are OK with iPads that have the textbook or reading materials on them because the lecturer then doesn’t have to look at a bunch of laptop backs and can instead see their student’s faces. You ignore the fact that other posters have had a lot of success using it in an academic setting, what the OP will be in, rings exactly true to my statement. You also ignore the utter fact that it can do things that a laptop cannot, like for example maintain power through an entire school day wherein a student is always moving, with little time to charge their gear, that you can draw and whiteboard on the thing to collaborate with people and share it to your classmates without any extra work. Or that a student has access to endless computer labs full of traditional computers if they should need one.
Despite all these things, because you couldn’t figure out how to type on it, ignoring or oblivious to the fact that there are plenty of keyboards available for this thing, you wrote it off. You couldn’t figure out how to use it, so you wrote it off. Like so many other things before that you eventually realized you were wrong about (ie: “useless” social media & your sudden fascination in Pinterest, “waste of time” apps & your sudden new found appreciation new publication mediums such as books-as-apps), you wrote it off.
Then a few weeks ago there were a few posts you made when it was clear you might have realized something you didn’t before. It’s like, wow, Muzha Man must have actually gotten that iPod Touch and now all of a sudden he can see and use these things and can’t dismiss them like he did before. It was a clear as day what happened there. Yet, time and again any time anyone patiently tries to show you what you might not be seeing yet, you attack. And you insert underhanded comments about how silly people must be for even suggesting that there are ways to do stuff you simply haven’t discovered or are too thickheaded to want to learn. This has been your entire M.O. on here.