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IPad has ruined my iPhone for me.

S1njin said:
iPad has changed all that for me. I used it exclusively all weekend long, using my iPhone to only text and talk.
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If you don't mind using a different number, there are iPad apps that'll allow you to talk and text. Examples: talkatone, textfree, and skype.
 
DrDomVonDoom said:
Anyone else have this problem? Now that I have a iPad, I cannot stand using my iPhone for anything but messaging, and with iOS I feel that it might ruin message for me as well. :eek:

When I first got it I got the universal apps downloaded on my iPad and tried out the iPad versions of jetpack and others, and now my iPhone lasts ten times longer in battery life. At least it's still a good music player. Lol.
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I have to bump this...I definitely feel this way.

I love my iPhone 4, but I see no reason to upgrade to the next gen iPhone simply because I don't use my iPhone nearly as much as I did before the iPad.

Having an iPhone is great, but the desire to get the newest one simply isn't there because the iPad does everything I used to use the iPhone for, but only better.
 
cardinalryan said:
I have to bump this...I definitely feel this way.

I love my iPhone 4, but I see no reason to upgrade to the next gen iPhone simply because I don't use my iPhone nearly as much as I did before the iPad.

Having an iPhone is great, but the desire to get the newest one simply isn't there because the iPad does everything I used to use the iPhone for, but only better.
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Agreed. And with ios 5 it's going to add some new life to the iP4 and the iPad 2. I'll be ok not upgrading my phone for some time I'm sure.
 
cardinalryan said:
I have to bump this...I definitely feel this way.

I love my iPhone 4, but I see no reason to upgrade to the next gen iPhone simply because I don't use my iPhone nearly as much as I did before the iPad.

Having an iPhone is great, but the desire to get the newest one simply isn't there because the iPad does everything I used to use the iPhone for, but only better.
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urbanj said:
Agreed. And with ios 5 it's going to add some new life to the iP4 and the iPad 2. I'll be ok not upgrading my phone for some time I'm sure.
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I'm in the same boat. I really haven't been using my iPhone as hard the past few days. If I have access to both devices, unless its a call or a text I'm grabbing the iPad. Not because its new, but because its better.
 
I think the answers to this question depend on two related factors: age and mobile lifestyle. There are exceptions, of course, but I suspect there's a strong correlation.

The iPad fills a niche between smartphones on one hand and notebook computers on the other. If you're someone with both, you'll find yourself using one or the other less when you add an iPad to the mix.

Those who use their laptops/notebooks for serious computing tasks have a difficult time substituting an iPad for that functionality. Such folks tend to be older (using their computers for business, for example.) By the same token, such folks are also less likely to be heavily involved in social apps than their younger counterparts and to be out and about less often. Add to that the fact that the older generation appreciate the larger screen of the iPad and the device that gets less use is the smartphone.

Conversely, those who have less use for heavy duty computing, more involvement in social media, are less home or office bound, and have younger eyes have a more difficult time giving up the convenience of their smartphones.

I've been watching this phenomenon for some time (being in the older, less mobile, more computer-reliant group) and I've found my smartphone is used for little other than phone calls. At the same time, my laptop (and my desktop system for that matter) continues to get as much use as ever.
 
I agree

Hello all,

I had the iPhone 3GS and the wife had the iPhone 4, and we both gave them up as the iPads that we have meet our needs. We bought a virgin mobile mifi and with the app text now we are no longer stuck on a contract data plan. I love my iPad and find myself not using my MacBook for school either. We have 1st gen iPads and they have replaced our phones and most of our computing needs. The only issue that I have with the iPad is not being able to upload files to my schools website. Other than that I would have gotten rid of my laptop too.
 
jsh1120 said:
I think the answers to this question depend on two related factors: age and mobile lifestyle. There are exceptions, of course, but I suspect there's a strong correlation.

The iPad fills a niche between smartphones on one hand and notebook computers on the other. If you're someone with both, you'll find yourself using one or the other less when you add an iPad to the mix.

Those who use their laptops/notebooks for serious computing tasks have a difficult time substituting an iPad for that functionality. Such folks tend to be older (using their computers for business, for example.) By the same token, such folks are also less likely to be heavily involved in social apps than their younger counterparts and to be out and about less often. Add to that the fact that the older generation appreciate the larger screen of the iPad and the device that gets less use is the smartphone.

Conversely, those who have less use for heavy duty computing, more involvement in social media, are less home or office bound, and have younger eyes have a more difficult time giving up the convenience of their smartphones.

I've been watching this phenomenon for some time (being in the older, less mobile, more computer-reliant group) and I've found my smartphone is used for little other than phone calls. At the same time, my laptop (and my desktop system for that matter) continues to get as much use as ever.
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See I can see where you are coming from, personally, I find the iPad fills mobile needs in much of the mobile computing area.
I am 25, so a bit of a younger guy, I have a iMac on my desk, and I was weighing between a iPad or a MacBook air, now that I have my iPad I don't use my Mac as much, I think I fit nicely in that Post PC era generation. I can easily check my social needs, look up things, watch videos. Instead of sitting in front of a computer, I've been hanging out on the couch. I can bring it where I want, though I still have this....uneasy feeling bringing it out in public, I felt paranoid reading The Daily at the LaundryMat. I take it to my parents, take it to my friends, take it whereever I go.

I feel like the Tablet PC, is going to be the REAL personal computer. Like how everyone my age were attached to our phones since high school, I feel like Older age groups have a harder time adopting new technologies they didn't grow up with adopted cell phones slower then the younger generation, I feel like I found it much easier to find a place for the iPad in my life.

One day we will all have these personal devices that will become extensions of ourselves, like how our phones are. That kind of scared me when I thought about it at first, steve's idea of a post PC world, but now that I have kind of experianced it, It won't be so bad. Especially after iOS grows, matures becomes more powerfull and able, and has the ability to do all that a PC does. Very Exciting.
 
Same here!

Infact, I lost my iPhone 3GS 8 months ago, haven't replaced it and not sure if i'll get the iPhone 5. I've just got my old Nokia which dials, takes calls and does text messages perfectly well.

iPad 3G all the way for me now.
 
DrDomVonDoom said:
See I can see where you are coming from, personally, I find the iPad fills mobile needs in much of the mobile computing area.

I feel like the Tablet PC, is going to be the REAL personal computer. Like how everyone my age were attached to our phones since high school, I feel like Older age groups have a harder time adopting new technologies they didn't grow up with adopted cell phones slower then the younger generation, I feel like I found it much easier to find a place for the iPad in my life.

One day we will all have these personal devices that will become extensions of ourselves, like how our phones are. That kind of scared me when I thought about it at first, steve's idea of a post PC world, but now that I have kind of experianced it, It won't be so bad. Especially after iOS grows, matures becomes more powerfull and able, and has the ability to do all that a PC does. Very Exciting.
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Actually, the iPad has sold overwhelmingly well among Boomers. They are, in fact, the main reason that iPad sales have been so strong. In fact, on another iPad forum site I frequent the single largest age group of iPad owners is over 55 years of age and the median age of those on the site is 45. And no, it's not iPadsForGeezers.

As for personal devices becoming "extensions of ourselves," I'd recommend another Boomer favorite, "The President's Analyst" starring James Coburn from 1967. :D

A Post-PC world? I'm skeptical. One interpretation of that comment is Apple bravado taking a shot at "PC's." And that's been a wet dream at Apple for nearly 40 years. Yet Apple still constitutes about 10% of the personal computing world.

Another interpretation is Mr. Jobs hyping devices used mainly for social and entertainment activities. But unless someone actually does some work now and then the disposable income to finance socializing and entertainment won't be there. Tablets have cut into PC sales, but new PC's still outsell tablets five to one. And while businesses have found a place for tablets, they're additions to, not substitutes for PC workstations.

Nor do I see iOS turning into a full-fledged computing platform crammed into a device the size and shape of an iPad. I'm currently sitting in front of four 20"+ monitors along with my iPad. I need all of those monitors to do my work and the computing power of two quad-core systems to drive them. Unless technology manages to overcome some rather stern constraints of physics, iOS will remain for the foreseeable future an operating system with limited functionality driving devices where portability and battery life trump functionality.
 
When I got the first iPad I was the same way. I didn't want to use my iPhone really. Everything was better on the iPad. After owning it though for almost two years now, or whatever it has been since launch, that feeling has faded.

The iPhone is just so damn convenient. It goes with me everywhere.

I rarely take my iPad along with me for the day. Only under certain circumstances.
 
jsh1120 said:
Actually, the iPad has sold overwhelmingly well among Boomers. They are, in fact, the main reason that iPad sales have been so strong. In fact, on another iPad forum site I frequent the single largest age group of iPad owners is over 55 years of age and the median age of those on the site is 45. And no, it's not iPadsForGeezers.

As for personal devices becoming "extensions of ourselves," I'd recommend another Boomer favorite, "The President's Analyst" starring James Coburn from 1967. :D

A Post-PC world? I'm skeptical. One interpretation of that comment is Apple bravado taking a shot at "PC's." And that's been a wet dream at Apple for nearly 40 years. Yet Apple still constitutes about 10% of the personal computing world.

Another interpretation is Mr. Jobs hyping devices used mainly for social and entertainment activities. But unless someone actually does some work now and then the disposable income to finance socializing and entertainment won't be there. Tablets have cut into PC sales, but new PC's still outsell tablets five to one. And while businesses have found a place for tablets, they're additions to, not substitutes for PC workstations.

Nor do I see iOS turning into a full-fledged computing platform crammed into a device the size and shape of an iPad. I'm currently sitting in front of four 20"+ monitors along with my iPad. I need all of those monitors to do my work and the computing power of two quad-core systems to drive them. Unless technology manages to overcome some rather stern constraints of physics, iOS will remain for the foreseeable future an operating system with limited functionality driving devices where portability and battery life trump functionality.
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I don't mean anytime soon, I understand that right now computers still have a very real place amongst businesses, consumers, end users and every day folk like you and me. He'll if my iPad could do everything including play Minecraft I don't think it would ever leave my side. I am thinking more of the long term, another 50-75 years, hopefully I will be alive to see it, hopefully Apple will still be around by then.
I think the iPad has the ability to wow people of all ages, not saying one favors it over the other. But, it's not so much this magical device, but I think it's just a better way of computing wirelessly. Sure a iPhone is handy and convenient, that's what it was made to be. But the iPad gives you that, star trek future feeling, where even though your holding something in your hand, and it does all these amazing things, it doesn't seem real. I guess it's only a stepping stone in the direction of that star trek future, but I am glad I am young at this time and place because there's gonna be so much cool stuff in the next 10, 20, 40 and 60 years from now.

My guess is the iPad is sort of a working prototype for the future. I think that Macintosh is Apples legacy, and when tablet computing is a real overwhelmingly common occurrence, then I think desktop computers at that point , or at least desktops as we know them now. Who knows, in the future we may have everything with us on a tablet go home to our terminal, slide our tablet into some interface and have a "desktop" still. I think I'm rambling now, lol.
 
I've found that I rarely use my Touch after I got the Ipad 2. Thinkin' of selling it as it's just gatherin dust now.
 
Detrias said:
My thoughts exactly, i cancelled my contract today because of that very same reason. Ever since i got the iPad the iPhone gets so lil use besides texting (which iOS5 is subject to change). If theres a ipod 3g release il give that a try and try to fulfill texts and the little voice i use over the 3g, otherwise dumbphone + ipad for me it is.
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Well it's a phone buddy....... I guess if you only used it for texting then you were right in cancelling your contract.

I will also say since getting my iPad 2 my 2010 Macbook Air has seen a lot less loving lately....... I was one of the people that always thought the iPad was a big iTouch. Since having my I2, I have to say its a great piece of technology altogether.
 
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I would love to get rid of my iPhone but it's just so darn handy sometimes because of how pocketable it is. I'm literally nowhere without my iPhone but I'm not infrequently without my iPad. Having said that, for some reason I enjoy using my iPad so much more than my iPhone.
 
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