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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.
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Considering that the app store allows device and os specific versions to coexist, there's no reason that requires a dev to break an old game. When it happens, it's typically because the dev made an error and added a feature but incorrectly claimed it was compatible with older ios or device versions.
>> the app store allows device and os specific versions to coexist It does? How does this work (I'm an iOS dev but been out of it for a little while so genuinely curious)?
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 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 found that with my original iPad. I sold it after a while as it wasn't getting much use. Just last year though I got an iPad Pro 9.7 with the Pencil. That's been pretty game-changing for me as far as making these devices actually useful. Now it's like a journal/lab-book, with extra features, that I carry with me everywhere and make extensive notes in. It doesn't replace my laptop, it replaces my written notes. I st…
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Which has a better proc and camera? I'll guess Nexus 6 because 6 comes after what must be the Pixel 1. Naming schemes are terrible.
iPad iPad 2 The new iPad (with Retina display) The new iPad (with Retina display) (again) iPad Air iPad Air 2 iPad Pro iPad (announced today)
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Still have an iPad 2, which works fine except for Safari on a heavy site, runs out of memory I think. Very happy from that angle. But, I've moved to a Nexus 10 for movie watching, for the screen and because it is so much easier to copy a freaking file to it! I need to copy movies ripped from DVD often, or the occasional download. Apple goes out of their way to prevent that, and why I can't really recommend purchasing…
> Apple goes out of their way to prevent that Hardly... drag ripped movie into iTunes, sync movie to iPad, done. Or just give up on DVDs and buy/stream digital movies :-)
I do stream with Netflix, works fine on Android. Many of the files are from torrents as well, DVD is not the issue in itself.
There is no advantage for iPad for a movie-watching tablet, and why I switched for that use case.
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Still have an iPad 2, which works fine except for Safari on a heavy site, runs out of memory I think. Very happy from that angle. But, I've moved to a Nexus 10 for movie watching, for the screen and because it is so much easier to copy a freaking file to it! I need to copy movies ripped from DVD often, or the occasional download. Apple goes out of their way to prevent that, and why I can't really recommend purchasing…
I don't use my iPad much these days, but when I did, I used nPlayer: a media playing app which got around many of the iOS restrictions. Plays many different formats, has its own integrated file manager, and provides ways to copy files directly including Windows file shares or streaming files
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Which has a better proc and camera? I'll guess Nexus 6 because 6 comes after what must be the Pixel 1. Naming schemes are terrible.
Pixel is mass market, Nexus is not. Only enthusiasts know that Nexus was a precursor to the Pixel so that comparison will probably never happen to the average consumer. Heck Google even avoids saying the Pixel runs Android
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It addresses it with counter examples that indicate that a "hierarchy of quality" is not something that really exists in consumer products. The fact that so many companies chose not to make the hierarchy clear is an indication that such a hierarchy isn't valuable to them. Look at the luxury car sector. https://www.audiusa.com/models#sedans/ Can you tell the quality by its naming convention? I can't. I can sort of ass…
Car companies (at least European ones) tend to be pretty transparent about this: - Audi (example): letter (car/SUV/race car)+ number (quality: 1-cheap, 8-luxury) - BMW: first number is a quality class, two numbers is the Engine size. - Mercedes: first letter is a quality class, number is the engine. Other luxury consumer goods use pretty similar schemes, e.g. Audio gear (e.g. bang + olufsen: the higher the number the…
You need to already know the brand to know this.
> (quality: 1-cheap, 8-luxury)
How high does it go? If they decide to turn it up to 11 tomorrow, is 8 still "luxury"?
I can't agree that this sort of versioning is any more transparent.
> (e.g. The Audi r8 and the a3, the 90k speakers and the 1k set)
This means nothing unless you already know the brand. There's going to be a minimum set of knowledge required to understand these versioning schemes.