Sold my iPad 2 and now feel liberated!

[porcupine8]

This sounds like a recipe for a severely scratched back and an inch thick layer of finger prints on the screen.

Mine was docked upright at my desk and also provided an opportunity for a wipe down with the microfiber cleaning cloth in my desk drawer. Perhaps OCD prevented me from maximizing use of the iPad. Oh well.

Well you'd hate mine - it regularly gets baby drool, dog drool, breast milk, spit up, you name it on the screen. Don't even get me started on fingerprints!

And yet it still works. And I bought it to use, not to stare at its pristine glass and aluminum. I can buy trinkets to look at for far less than that, made of much prettier materials. It's in a case, which makes it easier for me to hold and use but also happens to protect he back. I've never bothered to get a screen protector, yet after nearly a year of rough treatment not a single scratch or anything that can't be wiped off in a few seconds. This thing is built pretty tough so that it CAN go everywhere with you and not live on a dock.

 

[mattraehl]

Well you'd hate mine - it regularly gets baby drool, dog drool, breast milk, spit up, you name it on the screen. Don't even get me started on fingerprints!

And yet it still works. And I bought it to use, not to stare at its pristine glass and aluminum. I can buy trinkets to look at for far less than that, made of much prettier materials. It's in a case, which makes it easier for me to hold and use but also happens to protect he back. I've never bothered to get a screen protector, yet after nearly a year of rough treatment not a single scratch or anything that can't be wiped off in a few seconds. This thing is built pretty tough so that it CAN go everywhere with you and not live on a dock.

Could have wrote this exact post myself.

 

[irDigital0l]

I have a iPhone 4 32GB Verizon and I got my iPad 1 32GB for free from Christmas last year. Not free from Christmas, dad actually got 2 for free and gave 1 to me.

I would really like an iPad 3 especially if its going to get retina display, sometimes the iPad 1 can be pretty slow.

But I think a smarter choice would to be save up and get a MBA for college.

Now I always watch Youtube videos, news, movies on my iPad. I can't stand them on my Home PC. Also since I don't own a laptop, I basically use my ipad 1 for writing hw sometimes, reading books, doing research. Also I love airprint so yea.

I think the iPad 1 is still good enough.

 

[stevemiller]

i heart the iPhone 4S screen, and the thought of a 10" variant does seem drool worthy, but while there is plenty of *desire*, i can't think of any real *need* that could justify it. my work (motion graphics) requires the power of a laptop, and when out and about, i don't feel particularly limited by the size/functionality of the iPhone. the iPad would be great for couch surfing, but that seems like quite the luxury, when i already have a beautiful tv and two fairly decent couch surfing devices to keep me entertained.

not saying the iPad isn't a great lightweight platform, and if anyone can offer up any examples of truly unique uses, i wouldn't mind being convinced otherwise

 

[mashoutposse]

Oh, that Olympic-sized swimming pool? It's just a big bathtub

The bigger screen alone (and specifically) makes the iPad far more suitable than the iPhone for a wide variety of use cases. Practically all flavors of content consumption, from web browsing to movie watching, are significantly better on the iPad.

 

[Stella]

Well, we all live and learn. Not all devices are for everyone. You've tried the iPad, it wasn't for you and you sold it.

Maybe when the iPad gets more flexible /powerful in the future you'll try it again?

 

[Metal Dice]

Contrary to many people's opinions, not all Apple products are must haves.

Yet Apples bold, arrogant, "we've changed the world" attitude is true.

If they stopped making any of their current iToyz, the earth would stop spinning & self destruct ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0la5DBtOVNI

 

[7timethecrystal]

Well you'd hate mine - it regularly gets baby drool, dog drool, breast milk, spit up, you name it on the screen. Don't even get me started on fingerprints!

And yet it still works. And I bought it to use, not to stare at its pristine glass and aluminum. I can buy trinkets to look at for far less than that, made of much prettier materials. It's in a case, which makes it easier for me to hold and use but also happens to protect he back. I've never bothered to get a screen protector, yet after nearly a year of rough treatment not a single scratch or anything that can't be wiped off in a few seconds. This thing is built pretty tough so that it CAN go everywhere with you and not live on a dock.

I agree 100%. When I first got my iPad 2, I was OCD about the back getting scratched, or the first little dot of dust. My wife took my iPad 1, and it proceeded to get blasted daily with fingerprints from our twins, food, milk, etc. I look at it and cringe sometimes. Then, I take 5 minutes to thoroughly clean the screen and the case and it's like new again. No screen scratches and just one small dent in the back after two years of HEAVY use.

 

[unobtainium]

The iPad is superfluous for some people, but if you really take advantage of its portability it can quickly become indispensable. I'm a grad student and a teaching assistant. I do a LOT of reading on my iPad. The Kindle app has a great selection of academic books, and I'm working with gazillions of PDFs in Goodreader. I can read them, take notes, mark them up, and share them with others, all from my iPad.. I can also sync all those changes back to my Mac using Dropbox. I actually had all my students submit their latest assignment by email. I converted them all to PDFs and marked them up in Goodreader before shooting them back.

It's become so integral to my workflow that I can't imagine life without it. My backpack is now about 1-2 lbs, since all I take to campus most days is lunch and an iPad.

 

[MonkeyBrainz]

The iPad is superfluous for some people, but if you really take advantage of its portability it can quickly become indispensable. I'm a grad student and a teaching assistant. I do a LOT of reading on my iPad. The Kindle app has a great selection of academic books, and I'm working with gazillions of PDFs in Goodreader. I can read them, take notes, mark them up, and share them with others, all from my iPad.. I can also sync all those changes back to my Mac using Dropbox. I actually had all my students submit their latest assignment by email. I converted them all to PDFs and marked them up in Goodreader before shooting them back.

It's become so integral to my workflow that I can't imagine life without it. My backpack is now about 1-2 lbs, since all I take to campus most days is lunch and an iPad.

I've never heard of Goodreader until you have so thoughtfully brought it up. PDFs are now readable on my iPhone. Thanks!

 

[unobtainium]

I've never heard of Goodreader until you have so thoughtfully brought it up. PDFs are now readable on my iPhone. Thanks!

Glad to help! Goodreader is one of the most versatile apps for the iPad. It can almost act as a quasi-file system, especially when paired with Dropbox. And they keep updating it frequently.

 

[macjunk(ie)]

Count me in .... sold my iPad and feel liberated.
Bought and sold the iPad 2 twice! I was just not able to replace my MBP with the iPad...In the end, it always felt like a luxury device which I was using just cause it was there...What I want is an appropriately priced iPad which does only reading...Wishful thinking I know..

 

[MacAttacka]

I am a proud 27" iMac and iPhone 4S owner. I fell into the iPad 2 hysteria last April and against my better judgement, plopped down $500 for a 16GB model. While it was a very nice device to have, my initial fears of it being a "luxury" device that wasn't really necessary came true.

I would struggle to justify more than one IOS device. So I have my heavy duty mac, iPad 2 (sold for 3) and a cheapy $150 Gingerbread phone. Its second rate to IOS but its different enough. I had the iPhone 4 but ditched that for iPad 2 then 3. I still see it as a luxury device but is had become more and more useful over time.

 

[Cutwolf]

My desktop computer stays on the desk. My iPad goes everywhere else in the house ... and pretty much everywhere else that I go.

This.

I have my desktop for heavy duty stuff and my iPad for everything else.

I rarely need more power than what the iPad has when I'm on the go.

 

[appleisler]

When I bought my iPad1, I really didn't have any clear expectations about what I would use it for - it was a spur of the moment purchase at a time when I had gizmo lust but not the cash to outlay for a macbook. And its totally changed my life.

For me, its turned the internet into a book that I have with me and can refer to wherever I am. I no longer need to go to my study to look at the internet on my desktop. Its eradicated all the printing I used to do, especially of knitting patterns. All my documents for knitting, for study, for life are with me all the time. All my books are with me. All my study materials - my course materials, my notes are all with me. When I go away somewhere, I pop it in the bag and everything I need whether to read, to knit, to study or work, its all there. I read all the news on it (I used to be an avid newspaper reader - now I never buy a paper but love to eat my cereal and read my iPad every morning).
It fits in my existing handbag and it doesn't weigh a tonne.

I have an iMac for working with charts and stuff that needs speed typing and I recently was lucky enough to acquire an 11 inch air (really solely because my charting software requires windoze and there is no iOS alternative). I hardly use the Air because I feel cramped by its battery life and by its size - unless I am travelling and away from the iMac, I would rather be on the iMac or the iPad.

Perhaps this is because I have become more of a desktop user and was less wedded to a laptop when I got the iPad but it just changed they way I used the internet and computers and made them fit my life instead of me fitting the devices.

Well that was long wasn't it? Sorry about that.

 

[Cod3rror]

Unless you use the iPad for specialty reasons, like in medicine, business, etc... for most people it becomes an arm chair or an in bed browser.

I have a feeling that if iPhone had a bigger screen many people would not opt for the iPad. Maybe this is one of the reasons Apple is keeping the screen at 3.5"?

Smartphone... for the on the go, bed browsing.
Laptop... for more serious work.

Everything else is an extra luxury IMO.

 

[iEvolution]

I tend to agree though it does have its own set of apps you have to shift through a bunch of junk to find the good ones and I really havent found an app that I couldnt live without or didnt have a computer equiv.

Tablets are novelty toys at this point and don't have any must haves that a laptop can't do. At least in my experience , I don't know maybe some people are different.

I do like browsing and communicating with it and play games but it definitely shares the road with laptops as far as function goes rather than having its own road. In other words, if you have a computer there isn't much reason to get a tablet.

(Computer in this sense refers to desktops/laptops)

 

[mattraehl]

When I bought my iPad1, I really didn't have any clear expectations about what I would use it for - it was a spur of the moment purchase at a time when I had gizmo lust but not the cash to outlay for a macbook. And its totally changed my life.

For me, its turned the internet into a book that I have with me and can refer to wherever I am. I no longer need to go to my study to look at the internet on my desktop. Its eradicated all the printing I used to do, especially of knitting patterns. All my documents for knitting, for study, for life are with me all the time. All my books are with me. All my study materials - my course materials, my notes are all with me. When I go away somewhere, I pop it in the bag and everything I need whether to read, to knit, to study or work, its all there. I read all the news on it (I used to be an avid newspaper reader - now I never buy a paper but love to eat my cereal and read my iPad every morning).
It fits in my existing handbag and it doesn't weigh a tonne.

I have an iMac for working with charts and stuff that needs speed typing and I recently was lucky enough to acquire an 11 inch air (really solely because my charting software requires windoze and there is no iOS alternative). I hardly use the Air because I feel cramped by its battery life and by its size - unless I am travelling and away from the iMac, I would rather be on the iMac or the iPad.

Perhaps this is because I have become more of a desktop user and was less wedded to a laptop when I got the iPad but it just changed they way I used the internet and computers and made them fit my life instead of me fitting the devices.Well that was long wasn't it? Sorry about that.

Great way to say it, exactly how I feel.

 

[Bloodraw850]

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I sold my iPad 2 about 3 weeks ago, and I can't wait for the iPad 3 to launch. I miss it so much but a retina display will make it worth the wait.