On Mar 31, 2013, at 4:38 AM, Bob W wrote: > I bought an iPad yesterday, which is the first Apple product I've ever > owned, although I've used a few over the years, especially when they went > wrong for non-computer-literate friends. I'm setting it up at the moment, > and transferring various bits and pieces off the Thinkpad notebook I've been > using for the last 2 or 3 years. > > Considering the reputation they have for good design, I'm really surprised > at some of the shitey junk in Apple's apps.
Not all of the apps were written by Apple. But, as was mentioned, the person responsible for the skeumorphism, has been shown the door, so things could get better. When the iPod touch came out, I really wanted to like it. It was so shiny and cool, but iOS and I get along even worse than I do with mornings. Not long ago, Fry's was willing to match an Adorama sale price of $420 on an ASUS tranformer TF300T and keyboard. I picked it up to show off my photos and have been pleasantly surprised at how useful it is just as a small netbook. 32GB internally, 32 on a micro SD in the tablet, and another 32GB on an SD card in the keyboard. Plus it has a battery in the keyboard that'll charge the tablet when they are docked. My one hardware complaint was that it didn't have GPS, then someone showed me that I just hadn't activated the GPS. I was amused to note that with a quad core gigahertz processor, it has more Instructions Per Second than the stack of my three previous laptops combined. This week they seem to be going for $500 for the pair: http://www.adorama.com/ASTF300TB1WK.html The new, just released TF700 seems to have a nicer screen: http://www.adorama.com/ASTF700TC1G.html The short form is that this is one of those occasional tech devices that I keep finding more things to like about it. I'm using Quick Pic to show my photos, which has the ability to exclude directories from the display, so most of the time, I exclude the directory on my micro SD card that has my photos that I wouldn't want coworkers, children, etc. to stumble across. Shortly after I got it the upgrades to 4.1, then 4.2 were available. The ASUS site even has the rooted version of the kernel available for download, though that would void the warranty. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
