Best Buy have no re-stocking fees for platinum reward zone members.
Yeah I figured. The fact you even belong to that club tells me you just like gadgets in general.
Best Buy have no re-stocking fees for platinum reward zone members.
Yeah I figured. The fact you even belong to that club tells me you just like gadgets in general.
Apple's generous return policy?!?! Are you out of your freaking mind!?! I have never bought an Apple product from an Apple store. I purchase my Apple stuff from Best Buy, cause as a platinum reward zone member I have 60 days to return an item if I don't want it, not a measly 14! You won't have me to blame for anything in regards to Apple store policies because I do not shop there. Nice try though!
I came here seeking insight into something that I may have missed the times that I have owned an iPad. Ya know, reasons that I might have overlooked that would make it a good reason to hold on to one and implement it into my current list of devices. Thanks.
Ok people, I know this has been written about before, but I really need convincing, and I am hoping someone will do so. See, I own the iPhone 5 and also have a MacBook Pro, but want so badly to LOVE an iPad. I have bought an iPad at least 6 times, but every time I end up returning it because I feel like between my iPhone and MBP that I am duplicating too much. To be honest I will even go as far as to say that at times I feel like the iPad is nothing more than an iPhone with a large screen. Like I said, I know this has been discussed before, but I am really hoping someone will make me love owning an iPad. I am looking for advice on all the different uses that I can put it to and the things that it can do that my MBP or iPhone can't. I am looking to justify spending the $600ish on it and still having a MBP and iPhone 5. I have a Best Buy gift card for $600 that needs to be spent and once again I am heavily eyeballing the iPad... Could someone please sell me
Best Buy has a long return policy but you would have been flagged for returning the same item 6 times. It doesn't matter if you are a silver member or not.
http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Best-B...ll-Be-Declined-for-90-days/td-p/374604/page/4
This is so silly. Have you ever been in a kitchen and noticed there are knifes for slicing, dicing, chopping, cutting thick meats, cutting tender cakes and so on? Do you think a chef would say "convince me on owning both a serrated edge knife and a hollow edge knife."
Seriously, and iPad and iPhone both run the same OS and many of the same apps. Comparison ends. One is a smartphone, one it a tablet. Each does certain tasks better than the other one.
You should read the whole post. I have owned one at least 6 times and returned it every time.[.
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6 times is 6 times no matter how many years it was spread out. I am waiting for MS Office for iOS, too, but I do not keep returning and buying another to see if it is installed on my new iPad!
One of the main reasons for my returns is that I keep hoping that some of the office solution apps that are available will work really well with say Microsoft Word documents and yet when I open say a resume the formatting gets all screwed up. Maybe I just need to wait till Microsoft releases office for iPad...
I can't wait until Microsoft finally releases Office for iPad, and people discover that it also messes up their formatting, or it is lacking that one Office function they absolutely need.
Just because they have the same name doesn't mean it is the same program. Even Apple's iWorks apps have issues exchanging files with their desktop counterparts. Why people think Microsoft will do any better I don't understand.
I can't wait until Microsoft finally releases Office for iPad, and people discover that it also messes up their formatting, or it is lacking that one Office function they absolutely need.
Just because they have the same name doesn't mean it is the same program. Even Apple's iWorks apps have issues exchanging files with their desktop counterparts. Why people think Microsoft will do any better I don't understand.
You probably have a point there. What have you found out there that retains formatting from desktop to tablet the best in regards to office files ie. word docs?
This is so silly. Have you ever been in a kitchen and noticed there are knifes for slicing, dicing, chopping, cutting thick meats, cutting tender cakes and so on? Do you think a chef would say "convince me on owning both a serrated edge knife and a hollow edge knife."
Seriously, and iPad and iPhone both run the same OS and many of the same apps. Comparison ends. One is a smartphone, one it a tablet. Each does certain tasks better than the other one.
ThisIt sounds to me like you don't need one. I prefer having a tablet for casual web browsing over a laptop.
Phones are still being used for voice/calls more so than texting and data by a large margin. In fact, I think data is in dead last. The main use of a phone is to make calls.OP, can you live without the voice aspects of the iPhone? There is another thread here with a discussion of replacing an iPhone with an iPad Mini. This would overcome your issue with too much duplication of functionality.
The pro-thinking about using a Mini as an iPhone replacement revolves around the evolving nature of mobile phones being used more and more for data & texting and much less for voice. And the Mini is smaller/lighter enough for some to make the compromise of a bigger "iPhone" with earbuds+mic or blue tooth mic work.
The fundamental driver seems to be resolving the one BIG- but often ignored- issue with the iPhone: the cellular service toll. Instead of paying about $1200+ per year, some are wanting to use a VOIP app and a "when I need it" (on demand) cellular data plan or just free wifi to cover the occasional voice need.
If you are in the camp where you don't really use the iPhone that much for voice calls (or you are in a situation where you let most calls to you go to voice mail and thus really do most of your voice calling as OUTbound calls), an iDevice other than iPhone can save a LOT of money while still giving you every bit of the benefits of the app ecosystem.
In my own case, I've never owned an iPhone. I just don't need to be readily available for inbound or outbound calls 24/7. Up to now, I've "got by" with Skype on my laptop for travel situations, finding free wifi when I really needed to make a call (or using mifi when free wifi could not be found). That's never been as convenient as 24/7 cellular everywhere but it's cost me near zero year after year instead of $1200+/yr.
Now I'm looking at this Mini and seeing a mobile & light device with cellular on demand at much-better-than-cell-phone rates when I couldn't find free wifi. Pair that with a VOIP app and earbuds + mic and it's almost a bigger iPhone with a much bigger screen... minus the $1200+/yr toll.
OP, I think you are finding enough utility with iPhone + laptop. If you want to talk yourself into permanently owning an iPad, it seems you need to determine if you can live without one of those two. That iPhone is much more expensive than that laptop over time. If the voice service needs of it are modest (if you mostly use it for data + texting), consider an iPad or Mini LTE as a potential replacement.
I'm sure there will be 10+ posts calling this a dumb idea (including the guy who can only imagine using a smart phone held up to one's ear... as if earbuds + microphones do not exist) but if one can separate the voice service from the rest of an iOS device and determine that inbound 24/7 voice is not that important to them, the combinations of VOIP, voice mail, etc makes all of the other iOS devices interesting options. iPads with LTE are particularly interesting in that they can cover the emergency situations where one needs to be able to call ASAP and can't find any available wifi.
For me, iPad Mini LTE will converge some laptop + occasional mifi into a single box and deliver the other benefits of the ecosystem. It will also be much more portable yet not too small (as I find the phone/touch). For the "can't fit in my pocket" crowd, the Mini will fit in suit pockets just fine... and suits are pretty much the attire I'm wearing when I'm traveling (for business). Besides, even in a "casual Friday" situation, I would have the laptop bag too. Mini will deliver the niceties of iOS and the laptop will deliver the niceties of OS X. Wouldn't I rather have an iPhone (or iPhone too)? Maybe... but not bad enough to pay the $1200+/yr added toll.