XPost: uk.d-i-y   
   From: g4ugm@dave.invalid   
      
   On 01/04/2025 04:44, Rich wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   But to be fair, my wife has an iPad and has never had an issue with   
   watching YouTube videos...   
   ... are there YouTTube videos you can't watch on an iPad?   
      
   Dave   
      
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