XPost: uk.d-i-y   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 01/04/2025 09:08, David Wade wrote:   
   > On 01/04/2025 04:44, Rich wrote:   
   >> In comp.misc D  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> 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   
   There are more videos than you tube   
      
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