Posts by RCharles234

iPad? More like iFAD: We reveal why Apple fell into IBM's arms

Re: Drop in Ipad sales / saturated market?

As a long time Apple and Macintosh fan I am underwhelmed with the iPad. I replaced my iPad 2 only because the glass was seriously fractured. Now have an iPad Air, will take better care of it and have no plans or interest in an upgrade. Frankly, I had expected to use the iPad as a portable and keep my contacts and calender synched with my MacBook Pro but Apple shut down the wi-fi path to doing that and insists on iCloud, which I will not use. So for me some iPad functionality, which was not great to begin with, is now gone. Mostly I use it to read magazines, take pictures, and occasionally do email while out. I've bought maybe $50 worh of Apps and mostly avoid them.

Re: One does not replace the Rolls every year!

Sorry but I disagree. Apple was agreat company focused on excellent products and loyal to it's customers. Now it seems focused on becoming bigger and has gradually failed to keep it product quality.

I'm an Apple and Macintosh fan for 30+ years but have grown frustrated with recent trends. For example, there are occasional problems with OS X that, if one searches the web for help, have been around in various forms for many years; in the old days Apple would find the "root cause" and fix it for good but now these problems are patched and routinely re-surface. Secondly, apply designed the iPad to be totally locked and dependent on iTunes; when I bought mine you had to have an Appl ID and iTunes just to get started. And the OS-X to IOS interface is useless. My goal was to use the iPad as a portable device and l=keep it synched with my Macbook Pro; that was marginally possible with the earlier iPads but now Apple insists on the iCloud as the only way to synch these two devices. So I've bought my LAST iPad.