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Re: iPad 9.7‑inch

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Post by dahauns »

mozumder wrote: post #289
wil421 wrote: post #192

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Have an iPad 3, I find a lot of apps to be close to unusable at this point. Safari is a huge offender and it's full of ui ticks when I open the app or webpage. It seems all my apps are struggling. It's very hard for me to justify a new iPad. I really feel apple could've gone with the OS X on an iPad approach and really taken the whole market. Instead they are slowly adding iOS to Mac OS.

Turn off all background notifications, and it'll run like new. It didn't become slower. You just added a lot more stuff for it to do.

Sorry, but no. Did a factory reset and installed only a minimum of stuff, turned off as much as is sensible. Still runs like a dog.

Re: iPad 9.7‑inch

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Post by achompas »

wnevets wrote: post #320

I know kids and grandparents that use tablets all the time but not really anyone outside of those age groups. Is anyone else finding that to be the case? I know I personally haven't used the ipad in months if not years at this point.

I'm 31 and I use my iPad Air 2 constantly. Great for reading textbooks/papers, as a second screen for TV shows, or for streaming (whether at home or on trips).

It is very much a consumption device, though -- the most I "create" with it are short emails and blog post drafts.

Re: iPad 9.7‑inch

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Post by puranjay »

JohnnyConatus wrote: post #89

There is a legendary story about how Steve Jobs, upon his return to Apple, drastically cut-down the number of models that they offer. How on earth have they forgotten that lesson? Trying to figure out the differences between the 9.7" iPad and iPad pro is not easy, and regardless, it makes it harder to buy.

Recently dropped by the local Apple store here. I was in the market for a laptop.

They had about 4 different Macbook variants. Plus some older Macbook Pro models with HDD. Others with non-retina screens.

A few years ago, it was pretty simple: you bought the Macbook Pro for serious work, Macbook Air for portability.

Now it's just confusing. Like Dell or Lenovo.

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Post by eertami »

r0fl wrote: post #206
Larrikin wrote: post #187

I've gotten a lot of use out of my iPad 3 and, up until it stopped getting updates and the touch screen started breaking down in the past few months, found no reason to upgrade or replace it. I use it nearly daily but mostly for reading textbooks and novels, reviewing language cards, and occasionally watching YouTube videos. It's been extremely useful for taking to the gym and allowing me to study while on the ellipt…

I also have an old iPad 3. It certainly shows it's age and is significantly slower than my iPhone 7 Plus. However, the iPad 3 has worked well for FIVE years! I can count on one hand the number of times it has crashed, it has never been affected by malware, spyware, or some buggy crap software which wasted hours of my time. It has not disappointed me once in those 5 years. Why would I stray away from a product that ha…

>not having imessage (90% of my friends and family are on iOS device)

iMessage sees very little usage outside of the US, where OP may not be based.

Re: iPad 9.7‑inch

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Post by k-mcgrady »

sbov wrote: post #296
k-mcgrady wrote: post #71

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>> developers making mistakes and publishing incompatible updates If Apple thinks your device is old enough to end support (and Apple's pretty good at pushing updates for old devices for quite a while) why would devs keep trying to support you (when the app probably only cost $1-2 and 5 years have passed).

Why are the only two options devs supporting them or their app breaking? I have software that is close to 20 years old that is both unsupported and still works.

If you don't update the app and don't update the OS there's no reason it shouldn't continue working. You update the OS and you run the risk of deprecated API's getting called.

Re: iPad 9.7‑inch

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Post by throwaway91111 »

nkkollaw wrote: post #169
squeaky-clean wrote: post #143

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I always thought that was the iDevice's strength. With Android, you have nothing actually made by Google but by OEMs, with different names and branding that don't give any real information. Which phone is "the android"? My mom doesn't think she has an android phone, she thinks she has an LG and that Android is a different thing. People buy a low end Android phone and hate the entire ecosystem because the phone perfor…

It's still not that bad. It's always a version number (ex., 7), the following version they add an 'S' (ex., 7S), then the following version they will increase the version number (ex., 8). "Plus" means bigger, and you can regognize it because it's bigger, "SE" means lower-end, you can recognize it because it costs a lot less. I currently own a Huawei Y6II, which I read is a clone of the P9. No idea what it means, what…

How do you figure that se means lower end? It's the only model with that size screen; I'd think that's the determinant for a lot of people.

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Post by nkkollaw »

fiddlerwoaroof wrote: post #351
nkkollaw wrote: post #227

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One is Pro, the other one isn't. Do you need a better screen with the stylus? If yes, iPad Pro, else iPad. I mean, this is kind of ridiculous. All beers, wines, sodas come from bottles that are exactly the same size, how do you know if you like Budweiser or Heineken.

I actually find that it's really hard to pick a beer when I'm confronted with all the options: it would be a lot easier if a store just carried a lager and IPA and a stout (provided that the said beers were actually good)

Pubs are like that (they might carry 3-4 beers), but lots of times I drink stuff I don't like because I don't like any of the particular brands.

Choice is good, sometimes. :-)

Re: iPad 9.7‑inch

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Post by throwaway91111 »

komali2 wrote: post #288
nkkollaw wrote: post #239

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I don't know, I tried switching to PCs for a while, I couldn't get how their naming works. I mean, where do you even begin to try to figure this out: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/

You just look at the hardware and read reviews. There isn't really a sliding scale for PCs, that's the awesome thing about manufacturers that let you customize. Doing a lot of gaming or modelling? Better graphics card. Running shitloads of processes? Better ram. Better processor. Extra HDD, or SSD, or optical drive? Etc.

Nothing about driver compatibility :( it's a long and painful process to figure out if the computer you want will even work with the software you want to use.

Of course I'm sure it's better if you use the blessed OS and version pair, but I've never found a reason to use windows before....

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