XPost: uk.d-i-y   
   From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   In comp.misc D  wrote:   
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   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> You could use an iPad to watch You tube shit in bed and the iPad doesn't   
   >>> need to leave the house either!   
   >>   
   >> Its Apple.   
   >> It doesn't have a mouse   
   >> It doesn't have a keyboard   
   >> It doesn't understand many video protocols   
   >> Its shit   
   >>   
   >   
   > Again you have shown yourself to be a wise man! I completely agree! I won an   
   > iPad once at a company event. After trying to use it for one month I came to   
   the   
   > conclusion that I could do everything it could do with my computer, and my   
   > computer could do more and had longer battery life, and was generally more   
   > useful. So why should I carry two things?   
   >   
   > I sold it for about 200 EUR or so.   
      
   The ipad is intended for "content consumers" and preferably for those   
   who are "just fine" with remaining within Daddy Jobs' "walled garden".   
      
   So long as you stay within the protected boundary Apple has set out for   
   you, it will appear to do everything you want it to do.  But you musn't   
   stray from the path Daddy Jobs has decreed for you to remain upon.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)