Unfortunatly, we don't have financing available from apple in South Africa,
in fact, the only thing I hate about apple is that they only except cash or
a bank transfer, no credit card, no check, nothing. So either take the risk
and go to the store with 5500 rand for an iPad 16 gig 3g wiFi model, or
transfer the money and wate several days before you can have your device.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarai Bucciarelli" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: O M G, it's beautiful
Go for it!
You can always find reasons not to do something. If you can affoard it
without going in to debt, then get it. Apple has financing available too.
On Mar 12, 2011, at 6:19 AM, ShamelessFanGirl wrote:
I've been ogling these darlings for a while now. Told myself I couldn't
justify the expense, thought I might wait for their capacity to expand,
etc etc, but now, even that is taking a backseat to my simply wanting it
for productivity. I use my iPhone for nearly everything, and it's now my
only iDevice, after having sold my 3rd Gen touch last year, so what to you
all think? Would you go for it? Reasons to, or to not? I'm really more
interested in where the iPad will fit into your computing lives as a whole
than anything. That, and looking for that last small push off the fence.
:D
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On Mar 12, 2011, at 7:06 AM, "brandt" <[email protected]> wrote:
No trains I'd feel safe on and no apple fans I know of in my small South
African backwater town.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Cheree
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: O M G, it's beautiful
Cheree Heppe here:
Eeks. That's a bit of a distance.
No trains, buses? Or a sighted I-device fanatic who will drive there?
If you thought it safe, you could advertise for a driver on craigslist.
Regards,
Cheree Heppe
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On 12/03/2011, at 0:06, "brandt" <[email protected]> wrote:
Not when the nearest apple store is 250 kilometers (about 155 miles)
away.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Cheree
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: O M G, it's beautiful
Cheree Heppe here:
That sounds very discouraging.
Could you enlist the help of a friend with a car?
Regards,
Cheree Heppe
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On 11/03/2011, at 23:54, "brandt" <[email protected]> wrote:
I wish for one, I had an apple store near enough to me so I could get
to it, and secondly, I wish our public transport were good and safe
enough to be used by any sighted, let alone blind person! Then only
might I have a look at an iPad.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Cheree Heppe
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 9:11 AM
Subject: O M G, it's beautiful
Cheree Heppe here:
This afternoon, I took the light rail to the Apple store to get a hands
on look at the IPad 2.
The line for the IPad 2 was even longer than the last time, when the
first IPad was released.
One of the mall security guards tried to warn me away with tales of the
long line and of people having to take tickets to get in to buy an IPad
2. Undaunted, I asked the security guard to speak with one of the
Apple reps. The Apple rep knew me and I got right in. Thank you, oh,
thank you!
The store had a bunch of IPad 2's arranged around a square table near
the front of the store. The Apple store was jam-packed, as usual, but
even more so. My little German shepherd dog guide settled herself
under the table in front of where I stood and rested quietly while
various curious IPad enthusiasts came and went and I examined the IPad
2.
This IPad 2 looks and feels smaller, but it is actually the same outer
dimensions as its predecessor. Somebody had an IPad 1 with them and we
held the two against each other to prove that the IPad 2 was the same
outer dimensions. Where the IPad 2 is smaller is in its weight and
thickness, which is immediately noticeable, if one has handled the
IPad 1. The IPad 2's rounded edges make it seem even thinner without
feeling fragile in any way.
There was a fellow customer examining the IPad 2 next to me on my right
and I asked him to turn on Voice Over. He was doubtful about being
able to do this at first, but I talked him through Settings to General,
to Accessibility and through engaging VoiceOver and Triple Click Home.
Once those preliminaries were done, my newly met sighted assistant felt
more confident about playing with the IPad 2 in front of him. I told
him that all IPads have VoiceOver on them and that he could use
VoiceOver to read books to him. He sounded interested and amazed.
In order to hear VoiceOver in the hubbub of the store, I paired my
Bluetooth ear bud with the IPad 2 in front of me. Several previous
customers had paired various phones with this IPad 2 and when I left, I
didn't unpair those, just my own gadget.
Using VoiceOver, I looked around and found a lot more features on this
IPad 2. Maybe they loaded a few extra non-native apps on it, but I
found three pages of apps.
After navigating to YouTube and watching the first part of the original
Star Trek's Doomsday Machine, I re-entered Settings; General; Bluetooth
and un-paired my ear bud, clicked back to the Home screen and tapped
Triple Click Home to return that particular IPad 2 to Sighted Standard
Mode.
This IPad feels a lot faster than the IPhone 4. In fact, it feels like
a computer in its responsivity and I really can envision this device
morphing into a full fledged computer in very short order. The sighted
guy next to me thought the same thing.
I left and took a break at the Starbuck's in the mall before heading
home.
Wow, what a gadget!!
Even more amazing to me is my ability to get right on the IPad 2 and
navigate and perform functions correctly and independently the first
time. My only regret is that blind users still must recruit sighted
assistance to initially turn VoiceOver on in the absence of
an ITunes interface. If there were a start-up way to have VoiceOver on
by default, I would have never had to recruit my fellow IPad adventurer
to turn Accessibility on for me.
Regards,
Cheree Heppe
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