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okiepony · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:17 am

My question is -- do you guys have all those gadgets just for the sake of having gadgets?? :O ;)

ruxpriencdiam · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:28 am

rudyumans · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:29 am

rudyumans · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:31 am

jeffbanke · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:55 pm

Actually Barry, my friend down in UAE used his iPad 2 as a phone more than a year ago, and gave me a visual tour of his facility, then his city.
The whole point of them having the 3G option was so you could use it as a phone, I am just cheap, and since I use Verizon, did not want to sign up for AT&T as well.

I have been using Skype on mine to talk to friends, so actually you were not the first to predict it, you were behind the 8 ball :-)

Sari, I use my iPad for the following:
Store and play music for when I am driving back and forth between my homes
Store images to show clients
Check my email
Surf the net
Skype with friends at no cost
Check directions on maps

Now of course I can do all of this on a laptop, and some of it on an iphone, but the iPad is far more convenient than either. A iphone screen is ridiculously small to try and read anything, and if you so much as look at your phone while driving in California you can get a ticket.
A 17 inch screen laptop is great for image processing when on road trips in hotels, a tent or where ever, but is impractical in a vehicle to anything with unless stationary.

My ipad plugs into the radio in my Jeep, plays my tunes, slips in between the seat and the center consul, I can pull it out to look at maps, take it into Starbucks and surf the net, emails, etc., without the need to drag the laptop and its power supply and the bag it lives in, etc., into the store.

Anyway, I guess what I like about these things, is there are horses for courses, each has its particular use, each its own benefits and pitfalls, one does not use a thoroughbred sprinter instead of a show jumper and vice versa.

rudyumans · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 1:17 pm

similar here. I installed "pulse" (one of the best applications out there)to read the news and other things I am interested in like photography.

I get newsletters from the IRS and other organizations that are much easier to read on an IPad. I also get a lot of reports and white papers in PDF that are much easier to read on an IPad than on either a desktop or laptop and I can actually work on it as well like answering emails, editing excel files and some word processing.

I also read books on my IPad. I used to be a "I like the feel of paper" kind of guy, but the Ipad is much more convenient. For instance I can instantly (without leaving the page I am on) look up words that are not in my vocabulary yet because somebody felt the need to use words that are too complicated for my limited brain memory power and why make life easier by using words that I actually can understand if you are in a position to make things more complicated than it needs to be? Thank God for my Ipad so I can handle these pointless exposures of narcissism of some author at the other end of this universe. (I should send them an invoice)

okiepony · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 1:50 pm

Jeff - that Saddlebred looks more like an animated horse than a real one. Only one leg is weighbearing in that avatar! :O Must be some special saddlebred gait...LOL

Aaanyway, my husband has both an iPad and an iPhone but you couldn't pay me enough to use either one ;)

jeffbanke · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:18 pm