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Subject: Re: Awful rants
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2025 20:33:53 +0200
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Op 05/07/2025 om 20:04 schreef Ed Cryer:
> Why do only complaints and rants about how awful iPads are get posted here?
> I use several iPads; and they work well for me, enrich my life.
> 
> 
> Why don't we see postings such as; How do I do this or that? What's an 
> app for doing ....? What are best free games?
> 
> Ed

I have an ipad and regularly use it, I think there are good reasons to 
complain about the ipad. On the other hand it also works to some degree, 
so it's not all negative. It's just that apple intentionally makes many 
things very hard. I also have an android device and though there are 
complaints that would apply to both android and apple (like all the 
useless crap apps that primarily seem intended to rip people off), in 
many respects android does many things much better, like how 
comparatively easy it is
to access the file system.
You may feel that it works well for you, but perhaps you are simply not 
a very demanding user and you are easily satisfied because you are 
unaware of what's possible and to what degree apple obstructs people 
from exploiting the full potential of information technology.

The future still looks bright with developments in AI and hopefully tech 
tyrants like apple and google will soon be consigned to the recycle bin 
of historical curiosities, once AI revolutionizes information 
technology. At that point we can all agree to get rid of a 
pseudo-capitalist system with fake competition (given all the monopoly 
power big corporations have with neither transparency nor 
accountability) that drives humanity to the brink of self-annihilation 
by producing way too much useless garbage. We're already living in the 
age of abundance with all the culture freely accessible online.