Got a 1:17 in and stopped. I don’t think my eyes could take any more eye rolling.
Look, there’s blinding defending something and then there’s common sense.
Everything in the word has blind defenders.
I blindly defend the Smashing Pumpkins, because when I was 13, Siamese Dream & Mellon Collie and the Infinte Sadness burned themselves into my brain. 25 years later, I’m able to say that the current day Smashing Pumpkins are unobjectively worse than they were in their hayday.
BUT! Because I love the band so much, I’m willing to look the other way when they release a crap album with Tommy Lee drumming on it (that said, the new record that came out yesterday is pretty good! But again, that could just be the 13 year old in me wishing that to be true and it might actually suck.)
I’m not going to blindly defend Apple just because I love their products. As a creative professional, I need these products to work for me. If they don’t, then there’s an issue. But common sense has to prevail. If I don’t treat my THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS worth of investments like crap, I expect them to last and work for their intended life span.
Perhaps I’m a lucky one. I haven’t had any major issues with any of my Apple products to date. Sure, I smashed the face of my watch on a cement piling, but any watch face would have shattered in that moment. It’s not Apple’s fault, I’m the one choosing to wear a couple hundred bucks of tech on my wrist.
I’ve used my 2011 iMac nearly every day for the last 7 years, and it’s only
Now starting to fail me. I feel like any computer put under the pressure I’ve put on my Mac would have failed by now or before.
When Apple releases a thin and fragile iPad, and I’m willing to go all-in and get the most expensive model, there’s common sense telling me to NOT treat it like a piece of cheese and fold the damn thing in half. I’m going to treat it like the investment it is, because if I do, it can make me money back (I’m an illustrator, so draw for food.)
Common sense tells me, after these videos, that YEAH, the iPad is fragile, but not flawed, and I’ll probably look for a case to put it in when I throw it in my backpack for travel.
As always, usage varies. And maybe you (the royal you) don’t think you can use the iPad because you’re afraid it’s like butter in a 3 year olds hand. Maybe you’re right. So make a decision and move on. No one is forcing any of us to blindly buy these products. And common sense should tell us if something is fragile, it’ll break under most stresses put upon it, and that shouldn’t be as shocking as everyone is making it out to be.
Now, excuse me while I go defend the Smashing Pumpkins to my wife as she rolls her eyes while I’m listening to their new record.
