new Ipad user, already hating Apple

[Hayles66]

I bet those iSpears were really cool, were they made from a single piece of aluminium?

The Archangel

Some of our ancestors liked to decorate their spears, others probably did the minimum maintenance. In the end it was how they used them that counted. Hmmm, am I the only one thinking it.

 

[Hasty]

err hope so

 

[Hayles66]

Men and their spears!

 

[Hasty]

As long as they wash them......

 

[DontUnderstandMyIpad]

As long as they wash them......

Washing spears?

And here I was thinking they get cleaned automatically when entering the prey.

 

[SweetPoison]

umm.....guys. Topic?

 

[DontUnderstandMyIpad]

umm.....guys. Topic?

Good idea.

The topic was, let's see ...
we don't hate Apple, just some of it's imposed restrictions.

 

[Good karma]

LOL at Hayles66, from apples to condoms,

Sent from my iPad using iPF, using iOS 4.3.2

 

[Phine00Del]

In a nutshell...YEAH.

Michael "Spam, spam, bacon, eggs and spam. Hold the bacon and eggs." Sent from my iPad 2 using iPF

Let me start off by saying i love my iPad. Unfortunately I've still had to run tech support for my mom with her new iPad, she was in the process of emailing a picture from the photo app when her the photos app froze up. She could get to the home screen but could no longer see her emails in the mail app. I tried to talk her through restarting the iPad but it wouldn't even do that, she ended up having to do a reset holding down the home and sleep button together. Not to knock the iPad but just to point out that all electronic devices screw up at one time or another, none of them are perfect. I do love not having to worry about viruses though :-D

 

[Hayles66]

Let me start off by saying i love my iPad. Unfortunately I've still had to run tech support for my mom with her new iPad, she was in the process of emailing a picture from the photo app when her the photos app froze up. She could get to the home screen but could no longer see her emails in the mail app. I tried to talk her through restarting the iPad but it wouldn't even do that, she ended up having to do a reset holding down the home and sleep button together. Not to knock the iPad but just to point out that all electronic devices screw up at one time or another, none of them are perfect. I do love not having to worry about viruses though :-D

Virus free heaven! My laptop just locked me out again, do not miss that thing at all!

 

[Gabriel1]

Virus free heaven! My laptop just locked me out again, do not miss that thing at all!

Pats MacBook on head and cuddles iPad!

The Archangel

 

[Matt Angeles]

My god, does Apple think every user is a complete technical moron??

I have been a PC tech/network admin for years but have never owned a Mac or any Apple product other than my 10 year old daughters ipod touch (I'm beginning to think she must be a typical Apple user)

How do users put up with this cr@p?? I mean seriously, you have to jailbreak the POS to do a function so basic as set a default browser??

As soon as I started using Perfect Browser, I knew I had no more use for the much too basic Safari. I didn't think much of that, I knew I couldn't uninstall Safari but I figured of course I could set PB as the fefault (I can't EVER remember a time that wasn't possible in any PC). Well, nope: Apple won't allow that, I guess they are too afraid of the users breaking the thing...........

~John

I feel the same way. I feel like apple is making their products to simple.

 

[Hayles66]

I feel the same way. I feel like apple is making their products to simple.

Oh, god I'm simple. I'm not alone though millions of iPad owners must be simple too. iPad love rocks!

 

[Blueface]

My god, does Apple think every user is a complete technical moron??

I have been a PC tech/network admin for years but have never owned a Mac or any Apple product other than my 10 year old daughters ipod touch (I'm beginning to think she must be a typical Apple user)

How do users put up with this cr@p?? I mean seriously, you have to jailbreak the POS to do a function so basic as set a default browser??

As soon as I started using Perfect Browser, I knew I had no more use for the much too basic Safari. I didn't think much of that, I knew I couldn't uninstall Safari but I figured of course I could set PB as the fefault (I can't EVER remember a time that wasn't possible in any PC). Well, nope: Apple won't allow that, I guess they are too afraid of the users breaking the thing...........

~John

I feel the same way. I feel like apple is making their products to simple.

Not simple enough obviously as their product didn't pick up your grammatical error.
Sorry. Couldn't resist.

 

[ipadzombie]

Here's my suggestion. If you have a disneyland prison but you find a large population of the prison choose to break out of their cells each night, not to leave permanently, but just to do a few things outside the prison walls that can't be done inside the disneyland prison... I say the solution is... Create another wall outside.

Things like Backgrounder, Infinidock, Infinifolder, Activator, SBSettings, OpenNotifier, Parallax... Take the ipad, and in the settings menu, have a toplevel switch like you see on many PCs. Basic and Advanced Settings. Switch to Advanced, and then you can change fonts, colors, advanced multitasking features,etc... Take the top 20 Cydia apps and develop official Apple versions of them and incorporate into the Advanced Settings menu. This way, the simpletons can be happy as well as the techies...

If I had these things I might not feel swayed to jailbreak.

And people who don't like this idea, stay in Basic mode. I'm not taking anything away from your experience and you don't have to rally against the other side's desire for customization.

Everyone wins, including Apple for recognizing that we are individual humans, that the desire to individualize cannot be conditioned out of us, and then we can all have the iPad experience we're looking for.