Ok, because new iPhones come out in the Fall, and that’s a huge event. Apple doesn’t do silent spec bumps on iPhones.
Maybe a different topic for a different thread, but if you don't mind...why the aversion to owning a smartphone? I'm always surprised and curious when a technophile and technology professional eschews some basic type of tech.I don't even try to keep up on iPhones, and I'm sure I was wrong. I avoid the things like the plague.
I actually don't eschew the tech at all. Not any of it. I just use it the way I choose to. It's part philosophical and part practical. The way it's commonly used strikes me as a massive life and money suck. I have a cell phone. A prepaid one that I can use for what it's actually valuable for. It even automatically integrates with my car for hands free use. Safety, the ability to make and receive calls when they're really needed. As far as other tech, I have plenty of computers, an iPad, a Kindle, GPS in my car, and so on. That brings me to the money suck part. I renewed my prepaid cell phone recently. $200 for three years, and I think I paid about $20 for the phone 6 1/2 years ago. With the other devices, there are no monthly costs, so I buy them and use them. No constant money suck. So,like I said, I use every bit of the tech. More than most people, in fact, with my Apple TVs and media servers, both at home and work. I forgot to mention, I haven't had cable for 15 years. I use the antennas I bought 15 years ago.Maybe a different topic for a different thread, but if you don't mind...why the aversion to owning a smartphone? I'm always surprised and curious when a technophile and technology professional eschews some basic type of tech.
The basic iPad? Not that I'm Aware of, unless I missed something.Those were announced last week
The basic iPad? Not that I'm Aware of, unless I missed something.
I love the iPad just for casual browsing and so on. Still, it doesn't replace my Kindle. I went premium on my second Kindle, going with a Voyage, and it's great for what it's intended for, and the iPad is what it is. I don't use the iPad as an e-reader largely because of the weight, but I do like the virtual paper aspect of the Kindle.I bought an iPad mini a couple of years ago because I thought it would make a really good e-reader. As it turns out, the iPad was and is still just a really big iPod touch and I replaced it about a year later with a much lighter and more reading-friendly Kindle Paperwhite. I love Apple’s ecosystem but the iPad has always felt to me like a solution in search of a problem.
Just calling it like I see it, Sam. You might use yours all the time and I don’t have a problem with that. For me, the iPad is very limited in use and serves no purpose now, especially with the plus line of iPhones in the wild. I really really wanted to like the iPad and find a use for it. I was all in for a few months before I realized I no longer used it since I was reading without eye strain on my Kindle and everything else was being done on my iPhone or MacBook Pro.I love my Kindle paperwhite too. But to dismiss the iPad in 2019 as a big iPod Touch is just silly.