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so who need to get another ipad 2 just because your significant other have taken over
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Ever since kindergarten I was always known as someone who doesnt share well. So within a week of getting my iPad 1, I bought one for my wife. I recently just upgraded to the 2 and my wife says she doesnt think she needs to upgrade.
I don't have an iPad yet but will have one within 1.5 months (backordered since March 9th!). Anyhow, I don't think my husband will be interested in my iPad 2. He has a iPhone 3G and a MacBook but he's never been computer geeky.
Don't worry, You will be graduating from Law School soon (congratulations on that!), hopefully you'll have no issues buying another one.
I've actually had to "push" my girlfriend (soon to be fiancee) to start using the iPad which I use a lot during my training, and after that, I barely saw it..., so I bought her the new iPad 2. Wasn't impossible but also wasn't very easy, since I'm in the 4th year of my medical residency (so 80-100 hours a week with minimal salary, I'm actually on call right now lol).
Bought 2 on launch day to prevent this from happening.
The extra $$$ spent is worth it to me.
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Same here bought me one and the wifey one.
Better than having your fiance stopping you getting one in the first place because "we have no money".
(It's even worse when she's right
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If more than one person uses a single iPad enough to warrant multiple accounts, I don't see how multiple people would physically share it anyway. Taking turns or scheduling time on such things only works for some people, IMHO.
Well my girlfriend waited in line with me to get a 64gig 3g black iPad 2 for me. But shes okay with only a pc laptop and an iPhone 4 for her self, and im okay with her being okay with that.
I just jailbroke her phone after the new unthetered jailbreak came out, and that will hove her exploring her phone for a new while
Waiting patiently for a iPad 2 jailbreak for me now
I just jailbroke her phone after the new unthetered jailbreak came out, and that will hove her exploring her phone for a new while
Waiting patiently for a iPad 2 jailbreak for me now
kids not wife
For me, it's my kids (5,4,2) who fight over our iPad 1. I have it in a thick rubber case (Incipio 1337) and it's still a bit thrashed after 8-9 months. My solution is to buy an iPad 2 (w/ Smart Cover) and have a svelte, clean unit for me and they can monopolize the old one.
Puzzling though it is to me, my wife doesn't like the iPad much - she couch-browses with our 15" MBP. For anything other than real computer work (file transfers, transcoding, heaving downloading or major typing tasks) I prefer the iPad to the MBP. She doesn't, and I think it's just because she's never taken the half hour to adjust to touch typing on the keyboard.
For me, it's my kids (5,4,2) who fight over our iPad 1. I have it in a thick rubber case (Incipio 1337) and it's still a bit thrashed after 8-9 months. My solution is to buy an iPad 2 (w/ Smart Cover) and have a svelte, clean unit for me and they can monopolize the old one.
Puzzling though it is to me, my wife doesn't like the iPad much - she couch-browses with our 15" MBP. For anything other than real computer work (file transfers, transcoding, heaving downloading or major typing tasks) I prefer the iPad to the MBP. She doesn't, and I think it's just because she's never taken the half hour to adjust to touch typing on the keyboard.
Better than having your fiance stopping you getting one in the first place because "we have no money".
(It's even worse when she's right
She tried haha. But I totaled my car and got a 5 figure settlement check, which even after paying a huge chunk of CC debt left me with some $. She couldn't really say no at that point since I was due for a new toy of some kind.
Here's another PITA though: getting random receipts from iTunes for purchases made on my account not by me. Apparently a trip to Spain necessitated a $10 Spanish language tutor app whose receipt mysteriously appeared yesterday in my inbox. Fortunately, I pick it back up tomorrow so she can cause no more mischief.
As per another thread, I purchased my iPad 2 on launch day. My wife did not see the need for an iPad, since we each have our own 17" uMBPs and 2 spare 15" PB G4 lying around. Well, she loved my iPad. She was using it a lot. I just recently got her own black 32gb wifi model. Now, peace has been restored in the house.
Now, my 3 year old grandson can use my wife's iPad.
Now, my 3 year old grandson can use my wife's iPad.