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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Course with other devices when you run out of memory you just buy more memory, instead of having to replace the entire tablet.
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Screen and processor are both no better than my year old smartphone, and a lot worse than what will be my next smartphone. Meh.
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On the other hand, the screen and processor are still way in excess of most people's requirements. I've said this before and I'll say it again - the vital statistics simply aren't vital. Apple isn't catering to the market for nerds who care about who has the biggest numbers. It's catering to the market where users value style and simplicity.
My iPad1 is a workhorse ... its life is more like the PADD you see being tossed around in Star Trek TNG than a handheld HD telly for gawping at. It gives me access to contacts, diary and email wherever I am and earns us money by allowing us to take business enquiries while we're out and about. If I want my office to be a branch of Starbucks for a couple of hours, I can do that (much more effectively than I could with any smartphone - the physical size of the thing becomes limiting after only a few minutes). Plus, it synchronizes seamlessly with all the same gear on my desktop, which is on a Mac and has been for years. In fact making it all work together for the first time was as simple as giving the iPad a user name and a password. It was ready to roll in less than 30 seconds.
Plus it runs a load of bizarre, slightly surreal Toca Boca kids games that my three offspring absolutely love. Everybody's happy.
I don't need to compare stats or prices with any other tablet, Apple or otherwise. It does what I need it to do, simply and without fuss, out of the box. That's what Apple is good at designing and building and that's why I'm happy to keep giving them my hard-earned. Except not this time - my iPad will be getting replaced when it dies, not when a newer, shinier one comes out.