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Typical Dr Z Apple iPad Thread
By: Dr Z Date: September 28, 2020, 2:54 pm
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Just bought a bottom of the range iPad 2020, and Posting this
here felt like the right thing to do ;)
All jokes aside, the last Apple products I bought new, were a
2011 MacBook Air, a 2013 iPad mini, and an iPhone 5C. I got
pretty bored with Apple at that point, as the gaps in features
and Polish between Windows/Mac OS and Android & iOS narrowed,
while the priced just soared. Also deliberately obselence
seemed particularly harsh ... and then there was the fact that
everyone and their Nan seemed to have iPhones, it all got a
little boring.
And to be fair, I have not missed Apple one bit. While the wife
and kids prefer iOS, I have been glad to be using Android and
Windows. But recently, the Wife’s iPad died, and I let her have
my Amazon Fire HD 10, which suits here purposes of Candy crush
etc. ...and decided to treat myself to a new Android Tablet.
But the trouble is, every review of every Tablet I saw, would
come back to the same conclusion - “It’s good, but *obviously*
not as good as the 2019 iPad”. - Weird, as some of these
Tablets were £500+, and the 2019 iPad was, like £330? What
strange parallel universe was this, where the best value option
is coming from ... Apple?
And then I hear that the 2020 iPad is significantly faster than
the 2019 model, which already blew pretty much all Android
tablets away anyway!
So, I bit the bullet and bought one, felt a bit quirky at first
but now I have had a good play, it feels like iOS has really
come of age, not least because I also picked up the Logitech
Smart Touch Keyboard and Trackpad, this essentially turns the
iPad into a little surface-esque laptop, and the functionality
of the keyboard is fully integrated, it just feels like you are
using a built in keyboard on a laptop.
I am not 100% sure at this point, but I strongly suspect these
two items together are going pretty robust laptop alternative
that will suffice for 99% of what I do on a computer now, and
the more premium combination of iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard even
more so. Really impressive
When I signed into my old Apple account, I noticed the MT link
come up on the favourites bar, and I realised that for old times
sake, the right thing would be to post up a review of my
purchase on here. These posts had a huge Troll following back in
the day, so I hope if any have found their way here, they are
triggered in a nice, nostalgic way!
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Re: Typical Dr Z Apple iPad Thread
By: doc Date: September 29, 2020, 3:15 pm
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Just took delivery of a new Samsung tab and a new Ipad , havent
took them out of the boxes yet so cant comment .
But I dont think last year's Ipad blew the android equivalents
away by any means , the best tab I used last year was the
huawei, but it was a top of the range model.
Android/Apple pretty much the same for me these days , apps like
showbox and free download stuff is disappearing so this defo
knocks android down a few notches and the two OS are pretty much
morphing into them being too similar.
I think by the time the note 3 came out and the Apple 3g phone
came out they had pretty much nailed it , they have been
splitting hairs ever since.
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