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Originally Posted by jcb986
Big Apple lover here, but, I also have an iPad and I think they got it all wrong. No ports, no memory expansion, no Flash ability. Then they tied everything to there apps. It is basically a email device or device that allows you to message your other Apple friends. I had the 3 g iPhones and both died of CPU failure. I now have an HTC Sense and love it, just put a new battery in it and I have a 16 gb expanded memory card it it. Apple has a great group of designers but greedy management. I believe the PC Surface or devices like it will kill Apple in the future. It's the iPhone that has Apple this time.
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I got my nearly 70 mother the original 3G Ipad. Apple stops supporting it after only two years. Nevermind that OTA updates could be sent easily... apps no longer work despite not having any major improvements. But she has unlimited data on AT&T so despite asking for an Android tablet (no I did not propose this) since she's imprresed with her Samsung Galaxy phone over her previous iPhone (must be the convenience of a large screen for once...no more squinting on a puny screen). But I convince her to hang on until the 2nd gen 4G iPad comes out figuring it will simply be a big iPhone5 -- a very svelte device except with a battery that doesn't suck and she gets to keep unlimited data for $30 a month. Sure enough the iPad Air delivers the goods and I get her one for the Holidays. So you would think moving over from Ipad 1 to Air would be as easy as activating an Android phone... take out of the UPS box five minutes later all accounts are sync'd and ready to roll. Nope! You have to have a desktop or laptop to connect the new Ipad to iTunes. For what purpose if you don't even use iTunes??? Nevermind that a perfectly good LTE connection is right there inside that could well activate the i-device.
She has no other computer in the house so she has to make an appointment with the "genius" at the store. Have you tried making an online appointment for help at the Apple store? Good lord what a hassle. Each appointment is booked before you even finish filling out the form for the appointment you selected. Move onto the next available appointment...already taken, try again. And again and again. After 10 minutes of this I say enough and I call the 1-800 line and they make the appointment for us. My mother goes to the Apple store and the "genius" sets up the iPad Air but doesn't tell her she needs to stop by the AT&T store to move over the LTE service from Ipad1.... something you figure out once you're no longer at the mall.
AT&T people on the phone can't figure out how do it on the first or second attempt. They have to call her back to figure it out.
This is like a whole day simply to activate a device??!! To quote the OP.. "WTF Apple?"
This vine is starting to make sense now... well maybe not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctqj9l_2uQo
Then its an email every five minutes asking "Why is iOS7 making everything more complicated?" or "How do I get out of this screen? Why Doesn't this thing a simple back button like my Galaxy S3!?"