Apple iPad sux

All said- I hate Apple's guts CHINA! CALL ME Since you've hijacked their brand, I will, for a price, tell you everything you should fix.

Apple's train is late ....

—  You  Berks

The first thing I saw yesterday morning when I woke and went to put sleep and weight data into my FitBit account, was an iPad update notice from Apple.  There was a very long list of improvements, and I was anxious to see whether, finally, Apple will allow me to delete all mail in a lump sum, instead of having to delete every blessed item individually (didn't see that included).  The second thing I noticed was that this update could not be installed because it required 6.9 GB of storage, and I had just 3.4 G.B. available. WTF? I rang up my list of items that used hardware storage that was under my control, namely Apps, and noted that if I deleted every single item it would free up just a shade over 2 GB. What's using the rest of my 32GB?  This is not like a PC, where you can just look at the contents, so I have no  clue.  What I do know is, that if I cannot install this update, then I will never be able to install any subsequent updates, which mens that in just 6 months after shelling out $600 for this iPad, it is obsolete. ????  Right?  I mean, it's not like a PC, where you can simply install more memory.  You're stuck. Then I saw that Drudge had posted the "Warning, do not install iOS 8 update story, so maybe this update is so fkd'up that nobody with iPad Air can use it?  Anyone? Now let me say that iPad is a glorious device.  Once you get the hang of how things work, it's efficient and fabulously intuitive.  Apple, then, makes the trains run on time;  but then so too did Mussolini.  It's fair to say that Apple is a benevolent dictatorship.  The user must adapt to a very rigidly controlled governing body that  allows virtually no freedom to cross the border into, say, squalid Mexico, where one might contract a STD.  It is the the nanny state personified.  The downside to Mussolini's government. Here's an example of  what Applers must live with.  When I bought the iPad Air, I bequeathed my Gen 1 iPad to MoSup.  I foolishly returned it to it's original state, so that she could begin anew.  But guess what?  When we went to install the Apps she wanted, like Facebook, Kindle, NetFlix, etc., it was no longer possible.  "This app requires iOS 7 or higher"  was the response for everything. Even apps that iTunes App store showed as having been "purchased"  were rejected.  Not only can't she install Kindle, she can't install ANY book reader.  NADA.  She cannot install Firefox, or Chrome.  Yes, I spent hours browsing the web, where other iPadders were suggesting ways that might allow this or that, but I could find no Apple explanation for why programs that ran yesterday were no longer viable today?  They don't, evidently, have to explain themselves. I'm actually writing this for Apple support's benefit, which assistance I am about to request; and posting it as an aside.

EAT ME APPLE

Apple Dumplings                       —     you berks ...Steve  Jobs’s successor at Apple, Tim Cook, was asked at the annual shareholder meeting by the NCPPR, the conservative finance group, to disclose the costs of Apple’s energy sustainability programs, and make a commitment to doing only those things that were profitable. Mr. Cook replied –with an uncharacteristic display of emotion–that a return on investment (ROI) was not the primary consideration on such issues. ...  The company does “a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it .... If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.” [Full] When I saw this in March, I (like many of you) thought, "What a prick!"  So much for fiduciary responsibility.  And also an insight into Cook's character perhaps.  I'll make this short.  Wife gave me a new iPad Air last week.  She, in turn, took my old iPad I (5.111).  I wiped it clean;  re-registered to her, and went about restoring  the apps I knew she'd enjoy. Like NetFlix, iBooks, Kindle, and a host of others.  But, guess what?  All of the afore mentioned, and many others,  were denied with the message "This App Requires ver 6 or Higher."  WTF?  I used these apps, on that box, last week.  I'm not alone. HT1364 After updating my ipad mini, I could not download my kindle ... discussions.apple.com › ... › iTunes for Windows › Discussions Apple Inc. Mar 20, 2014 - 96 Views 0 Replies Latest reply: Mar 20, 2014 6:35 AM by clcldavis RSS ... After updating an ipad mini wifi, i could not download kindle books from the ... When I type kindle on my iPad app page, kindle app does not appear. Kindle and the iPad: Apple Support Communities    Apr 8, 2014 It gets worse.  Not only are there no Kindle or iBooks;  there are no book reader apps available. None. Once you give them up, there ain't no going back.  The plaintive cry across Apple land is— "How can I read books on an IPAD1 with OS 5.1.1" ... you pricks!

Sleeping with the enemy

Oh My

I have in my grubby little  hands an Apple iPad; compliments of my son Hucker  (Father's Day).  This is all I can do right now.

iTit

Gizmos    Apple Does It Again Apple announced today that it has developed a breast implant that can store and play music. The iTit will cost from $499 to $600m depending on cup and speaker size.  This is considered a major social  breakthrough because women are always complaining about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.

Stuff Apple Fanatics Say

MacTweak

Apple's Hard Core

TECHNO THRILLS                               Apple won't carry an ebook because it mentions Amazon “ Author Holly Lisle has a series of online writing guides that she sells. One volume of this, "How To Think Sideways Lesson 6: How To Discover (Or Create) Your Story’s Market" was rejected by Apple's iBooks store. At first, Apple told Lisle that she wasn't allowed to have "live links" to Amazon in her books. So she removed the links and resubmitted the book, and then Apple rejected it again, telling her that they wouldn't sell her book because it mentioned Amazon, a competitor of its iBooks store. [Full] LOL.  I spent my life in sales and marketing.  If you were a competitor I hated your guts, made war on you, and excluded you from my Christmas parties.  So. I understand; and it is what  Francis Urquhart would do. ”

Epic Rap Battles of History

Epic Rap Battles of History

Marc Miller

Orbitz and Mac

Apple Media  On Orbitz, Mac Users Steered to Pricier Hotels “ I'm not sure Claire the pink pig barbarian sees it the same way (she is an Appleist) as I do.  That is, Mac users are easily  manipulated into paying more for stuff than PC users.  Makes sense to me. ”

So, your kid wants an eye pad .....

Some Apples have to be tweaked

Some Apples have to be tweaked juice

 

Apple Humor

Today's Cultural Observation *snort*

Caption Granny

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Doug M Wins “                                                                                                                 ”

Apple Terlet

Perfect Gizmos and Gadgets I shoulda invented that Of Course. *smacks head*

i rule

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Okay, that's funny.  I love to tweak Apple cultists like everyone does.  Bur fair is fair. What's not funny *sigh* is how wretched Windows 7 is, and continues to become with every update.  For example, when I transfer pictures from my Canon A560 to the computer, I expect to be able to put them in whatever the hell directory I want.  It was a battle, because Mr. 7 wants to "organize" pictures in a some hierarchical system of its own design, and to hell with what I want. After a fashion I found a way to do it, but now I discover that the 7 pricks have lassoed and herded them back into the corral.  Obviously, then,  someone at Microsoft found out I was doing things the wrong way; cracked my knuckles with a ruler and corrected things.  I call that breaking and entering.  The reason for all this is obvious to, mostly, old timers.  The gene that makes programmers programmers is the same one that makes people control freaks.  It is their natural tendency to thrill at having dominion over people not as bright as they.  These ambitions are controlled in the carefully supervised programming environment.  Guess  what?  Yes, the inmates have escaped oversight, evidently, and are run amok.  If all this makes you think "my God, he's describing government," you're right.  The ambition to control other people attracts the same personality.  When you see a seventh grader campaigning like hell to be elected class president, after nominating himself, you are seeing a future programmer, a manipulator of people.  Here's an example of that culture, one that exists in Microsoft today.  Beginning with Windows 7, the time waster called Microsoft Hearts underwent an extraordinary metamorphosis.  The key move was retaining statistics from prior games.  The player is now allowed to win, say,  25% of the time with minimum cheating in the form of reneging.   At about the 40% win level however, it's total war.  By that I mean all pretense of playing by the rules is gone.  Every hand is programmed to  make it impossible for you to win.  Stacked deck and reneges galore.  If you still manage to get to the point where a win is possible, even probable, the game uses tactics tantamount to shooting you and declaring victory.  You will simply be trampled. I swear to Jesus, I just now had a moment of perfect clarity.  Microsoft is  running the Democrat party.

Apple Fun

HUMANCENTiPAD Tags: SOUTH PARKKyle Broflovski,Eric Cartman,more...

Google Search and a bad appple

Giving New Meaning to Google Search  APPLE, GOOGLE PHONES COLLECT DATA

Google and Apple are gathering location information as part of their race to build massive databases capable of pinpointing people's locations via their cellphones. These databases could help them tap the $2.9 billion market for location-based services—expected to rise to $8.3 billion in 2014, according to research firm Gartner Inc. TWO RESPONSES GOOGLE  DUH APPLE  Are you really surprised?  I mean, Al Gore is a director.

Apple Restriction Zone

Of course PC's using Windows 7 are only marginally better (if at all).

I'M Shrinking!

9-1-1?  I'm Shrinking!