Posts by rare comment

Even if sales are for replacements to iPads, those still seem like valuable sales (for example, we sold our original iPad to help finance the Mini). Perhaps troubling if the sales are in lieu of full-size iPads but, even then, better to...

Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland    Please explain. I've owned all iPhones, all iPads and a lot of Macs, a car, a motorbike, bikes, toys, board games, consoles and other stuff and I can say with my hand...

The Mini is, in many ways, the same machine as an iPad 2 so, for me, the easiest way to think about the Mini is to think about whether the iPad 2 is well priced and if a $70 price reduction is appropriate/attractive. For what it's...

Also, if our household is at all typical, there are a meaningful number of in-use iOS devices that cannot (3G, iPad 1, first iPod Touches) or probably should not (3GS, mid-gen iPod Touches) install iOS6. And then all the iPad 2s that...

"It's also surprising that Apple hasn't made available for sale specialized packages of offline maps, such as national parks or regional trails, hiking and camping maps, and similar detailed, offline maps for iOS 6 users." In the long...

It's free and doesn't force anyone to use it so can't complain, but the initial US locations seem off the beaten path for many/most. Almost the exact opposite of the kinds of cities that fly-over works for so far.

Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan  MS touch cover is a physical keyboard. I think this would be touch screen? surface was presented with two different screens.  one was a touch screen (non traveling buttons)...

Quote: Originally Posted by namot  The perfect Smart Cover for me, should have a secondary E-ink display (reading books-reports, browsing outside etc...) I have no idea why some company didn't invented something like...

I thought the same thing!  Nice to know I wasn't the only one.  http://q10a1.blogspot.com/2012/06/crazy-ipad-stuff.html

Under "Other Apple TV advantages", the review (which I very much enjoyed reading) describes iTunes extras. I haven't been able to access these from apple tv - only from the mac. Am I missing something? Thanks for...