"KirkyV" (KirkyV)
04/19/2015 at 12:57 • Filed to: None
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"KirkyV" (KirkyV)
04/19/2015 at 12:57 • Filed to: None | 2
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There’s more to it, of course, but I could probably learn to live with the rest of it for the sake of that hardware. I keep pretty much all my pictures in Dropbox, and if I want to upload them to a Kinja post on my tablet or phone, all I’ve got to do is hit the button and pick the one I want. On an iPad, I’d have to leave the browser, open the Dropbox app, find the picture, save it to the internal memory, then go back to the browser again.
Have a Citroen - uploaded from Dropbox - for bothering to read this.
Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> KirkyV
04/19/2015 at 13:57 |
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I literally can’t think of a single use for an iPad. It makes sense for people who dont have a computer or laptop, but if you have those things and a smartphone the iPad serves no purpose.
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KirkyV
> Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
04/19/2015 at 14:04 |
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Oh, I can see why someone would want a tablet. I use mine constantly: it’s great for browsing the Internet in bed, reading comics and books, watching TV and so on. I’m writing this comment on it from my Grandma’s front room. My smartphone could do all the same stuff, of course, but the bigger screen really does improve the experience, and my laptop is too cumbersome to carry around in the same way, and wouldn’t be nearly as good to read comics and books on, besides.
I just don’t like iOS, for a variety of reasons.
djmt1
> Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
04/19/2015 at 14:10 |
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The family one became a digital picture frame after its battery expired. Before that it was a plaything for my nieces when they were toddlers and still interested in matching games but now they play Rayman and weirdly Forza & DiveKick.
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djmt1
> KirkyV
04/19/2015 at 14:16 |
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My biggest problem with iOS is simply not having a back button. It makes any iOS experience utterly miserable for me.
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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> KirkyV
04/19/2015 at 14:16 |
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My laptop doesn’t weigh a whole lot (I’m sat with it now) and can stand on it’s own which makes it easier to use in my opinion. Phones are so big these days I’ll happily watch TV on mine anyway. But to each their own, I couldn’t afford a tablet even if I wanted one because I just poured all my money into getting the Twingo.
I used to have an iPod touch and my experience with iOS on that wasn’t particularly positive, I’m happy with android on my current phone.
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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> djmt1
04/19/2015 at 14:17 |
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I notice a lot of people give them to kids. Your nieces have good taste in games.
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KirkyV
> djmt1
04/19/2015 at 14:21 |
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Yup, that too.
f86sabre
> KirkyV
04/19/2015 at 14:30 |
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I have a laptop for work running Win 7, I have a desktop for home running Win 8, an S4 for my personal phone and an i6 for my work phone, plus an iPad. Why all the cross platform stuff? Here is why:
Work Computer - Self explanatory. I’m an engineer at a big company and they give us Windows laptops.
Desktop at home. 4 TB hard drive full of my media and pictures. Wife does her stuff on it.
S4 - I like the Android operating system as you can do interesting stuff with it. There are more options than iOS, but the thing isn’t nearly as stable. Updates have been pretty sketchy for a while.
i6 - dead stable and stuff works. Hate to say it, but true. Also,the camera software works better than the S4 in less then perfect conditions.
iPad - I actually won it at a conference years ago. Its an iPad 2. I didn’t think I would like it much, but I use it every day. Same reasons as the iphone. That and I travel a good bit and it is way easier to deal with in an airplane seat than a laptop. Kinja on iOS is sketchy, but functional.
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KirkyV
> f86sabre
04/19/2015 at 14:46 |
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I have a Windows desktop, for gaming, media, and just general use; an old MacBook Pro - that could really do with an upgrade - for uni, and a Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 to do pretty much what you’d expect. I’m currently in the market for replacements for the N7 and MacBook.
I’ve never had any particularly significant stability problems on my N5 or N7; certainly no more than I used to on my old 3GS, back when I still iPhoned, or my old iPad 2. This is all anecdotal of course, but I will say that I’ve never had a particularly good experience with any of the Samsung phones I’ve tried, non-TouchWiz Galaxy Nexus aside.
Kinja certainly functions on iOS, but the above-mentioned picture upload problem, combined with the fact that I just plain don’t like the interface, find it irritating to work around the lack of a user-accessible file system, and hate the fact that there’s no good Android ‘share’ button equivalent, means that I just can’t deal be arsed to deal with it on a day-to-day basis. It’s a shame—I’ve no interest in owning an iPhone, but I do rather like the iPad Air 2 hardware.
boxrocket
> KirkyV
04/19/2015 at 18:27 |
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I don't understand the appeal of an ipad. It's an ipod/iphone with a larger screen, and shares those devices' severe limitations.
I have a Windows desktop, several laptops of various vintages, a WinBook TW801 tablet (which I'm using to write this), and several Nokia Lumias. The tablet and phones get the most use, but there's so many times I'm using the tablet that I wish it had Windows Phone features, like sharing a photo as you described: long-press on the image, wait for the pop-up, and select" share", then pick what service(s) to share to, be it Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, OneDrive, DropBox, Copy, Box, e-mail, messaging, etc., etc. I could even share to Kinja but I won't bother with that app.