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I also have an old iPad 3. It certainly shows it's age and is significantly slower than my iPhone 7 Plus. However, the iPad 3 has worked well for FIVE years! I
by r0fl 10y ago
I also have an old iPad 3. It certainly shows it's age and is significantly slower than my iPhone 7 Plus. However, the iPad 3 has worked well for FIVE years! I can count on one hand the number of times it has crashed, it has never been affected by malware, spyware, or some buggy crap software which wasted hours of my time. It has not disappointed me once in those 5 years.
Why would I stray away from a product that has not let me down for so long? Is the surface kickstand and pen input worth:
- having to learn a new OS
- not having facetime
- not having imessage (90% of my friends and family are on iOS devices)
- risking time lost due to malware, bloatware, blue screen, etc
Sure there are tablets out there that are thinner, faster, cheaper and have more features. I just don't care! I rather pay $200-300 more for a device that I will use almost every day for the next 1000-1500 days. Once iPads, iPhones, iMacs start wasting my time with random problems then I will shop around. Until then there is absolutely nothing that would make me switch brands.
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- eertami 10y ago>not having imessage (90% of my friends and family are on iOS device) iMessage sees very little usage outside of the US, where OP may not be based.
- ricardobeat 10y agoOr maybe it sees little usage inside of your own country? Even when most people use other messaging platforms, I see it used as the family/iphone-possessing-close-friends channel of choice, since it transparently replaces SMS.
- srssays 10y agoiMessage makes it impractical to have a conversation with anybody on prepaid Android. Sure you can send MMSs and SMSs to them, but are they going to send more than a couple back? Nope.
- dahauns 10y agoSubstitute "your own country" with "most countries outside the US" and you're about right. iOS prevalence simply isn't there. While SMS fallback is handled brilliantly by iMessage, as soon as people are using it as more than a glorified sms client (group chat, file transfer...) and/or are really concerned about end-to-end encryption, the limitations of SMS/MMS start to become a dealbreaker.
- drdrey 10y ago> it has never been affected by malware, spyware that you know of