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* who paid for your iPhone? * who paid for your MBP? In many cases, your employer did. After the MBP is written off and after the phone contract renews, you g

* who paid for your iPhone? * who paid for your MBP? In many cases, your employer did. After the MBP is written off and after the phone contract renews, you get a new one. Not so for the iPad. Also, iPads serve mostly three purposes: * feed a bluetooth speaker * watch movies in bed * lookup recipes in the kitchen It does this very well, and you don't need a new one every two years.

a012 10y ago
> * watch movies in bed Without a proper ipad holder, watching movies in bed with iPad is painfully, your arms get tired quickly after opening.
- barking 10y ago
  And when you fall asleep it hits you on the nose.
  - photojosh 10y ago
    Yes. And that REALLY hurts. (Not movies but the occasional book.)
- draugadrotten 10y ago
  Perhaps this holder would please you, https://archive.is/bg8fV https://archive.is/bg8fV
- throwanem 10y ago
  Rotation-lock the iPad in landscape mode. Lie on your side, tuck your upper arm under your pillow, rest one narrow side of the iPad on the bed, and hold the opposite side with that arm's hand. Now your arm won't get tired, because it's no longer fighting gravity, and while you will drop the iPad when you fall asleep, it won't hit your face unless you're a lot more nearsighted than my -3.5 diopters. (That's a lot - ~20/120 in old money.) It'll also land face down if you hold it with a slight tilt toward you, which helps prevent the screen light from interfering with sleep any more than it already will because you're watching it in bed.
  - MrBuddyCasino 10y ago
    That delightfully detailed description is definitely HN approved. I'll add another one: lean your back against the wall sitting upright, pull your knees towards you so they form an inverted V and prop the iPad up against your legs. Slightly awkward but workable.
    - throwanem 10y ago
      Unless you wear bifocals, in which case the screen is just outside the comfortable range of focus for the magnifying lenses, yet too low in the field of view to be comfortably seen through the distance lenses - you end up with your chin on your breastbone and a crick in your neck. Maybe an Air is light enough to prop more up against your knees. My 4th gen certainly isn't!
zelos 10y ago
Users could just keep their existing iPhone and switch to a cheaper SIM-only contract, of course. I'd be interested to know how much of the iPhone upgrade market is replacements for smashed/water damaged phones.
coldtea 10y ago
>Also, iPads serve mostly three purposes Check mail, social media (Facebook etc), read books and browse in bed relaxed, etc. And those are just the main uses for everybody. There are tons of niche uses so that most people, if they have any kind of hobbies/interests outside of web/movies, end up having one or two.
- nindalf 10y ago
  His point stands. You might have 3 uses, I might have 5. But what's likely is that neither of us are going to benefit too greatly by upgrading to the latest and greatest. So we stick to what we have.

a012 10y ago

> * watch movies in bed Without a proper ipad holder, watching movies in bed with iPad is painfully, your arms get tired quickly after opening.

barking 10y ago
And when you fall asleep it hits you on the nose.
- photojosh 10y ago
  Yes. And that REALLY hurts. (Not movies but the occasional book.)
draugadrotten 10y ago
Perhaps this holder would please you, https://archive.is/bg8fV https://archive.is/bg8fV
throwanem 10y ago
Rotation-lock the iPad in landscape mode. Lie on your side, tuck your upper arm under your pillow, rest one narrow side of the iPad on the bed, and hold the opposite side with that arm's hand. Now your arm won't get tired, because it's no longer fighting gravity, and while you will drop the iPad when you fall asleep, it won't hit your face unless you're a lot more nearsighted than my -3.5 diopters. (That's a lot - ~20/120 in old money.) It'll also land face down if you hold it with a slight tilt toward you, which helps prevent the screen light from interfering with sleep any more than it already will because you're watching it in bed.
- MrBuddyCasino 10y ago
  That delightfully detailed description is definitely HN approved. I'll add another one: lean your back against the wall sitting upright, pull your knees towards you so they form an inverted V and prop the iPad up against your legs. Slightly awkward but workable.
  - throwanem 10y ago
    Unless you wear bifocals, in which case the screen is just outside the comfortable range of focus for the magnifying lenses, yet too low in the field of view to be comfortably seen through the distance lenses - you end up with your chin on your breastbone and a crick in your neck. Maybe an Air is light enough to prop more up against your knees. My 4th gen certainly isn't!

zelos 10y ago

Users could just keep their existing iPhone and switch to a cheaper SIM-only contract, of course. I'd be interested to know how much of the iPhone upgrade market is replacements for smashed/water damaged phones.

coldtea 10y ago

>Also, iPads serve mostly three purposes Check mail, social media (Facebook etc), read books and browse in bed relaxed, etc. And those are just the main uses for everybody. There are tons of niche uses so that most people, if they have any kind of hobbies/interests outside of web/movies, end up having one or two.

nindalf 10y ago
His point stands. You might have 3 uses, I might have 5. But what's likely is that neither of us are going to benefit too greatly by upgrading to the latest and greatest. So we stick to what we have.