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Apparently campaign workers for Michael Bloomberg are using some fancy Apple hardware, maybe you could become a door knocker for him and use it for signing up n

Apparently campaign workers for Michael Bloomberg are using some fancy Apple hardware, maybe you could become a door knocker for him and use it for signing up new party members? https://nypost.com/2020/01/22/heres-how-mike-bloomberg-is-luring-2020-campaign-staffers-with-lavish-perks/ https://nypost.com/2020/01/22/heres-how-mike-bloomberg-is-lu...

sigmaprimus 7y ago
On a more serious note, there are a few features that the pro model has that the standard model does not. The pro has a usb C port instead of the lightning jack, the display can be larger and the 1TB version comes with an extra 2 gigs of ram. I suppose if you can justify paying more for any Ios device over Android, why not pay twice as much for the pro version? Maybe the pro will be supported for a longer period of time and wouldn't end up under a pile of magazines on the coffee table. (like my Ipad one is!).
- brailsafe 7y ago
  There certainly are some technical advantages. As a mac/Android phone/ipad3 user, I appreciate the screen and ram in particular. But even the 4 or 6gb still seems meager and Safari still aggressively limits certain things. These are all nice vs my ipad 3 certainly, but apart from being a pure luxury device, I struggle to find how I'd make such different use of it than anything else. It's a great device to use for trivial tasks, but I just don't know what it's good for other than making most things smoother.
  - sigmaprimus 7y ago
    I would agree with you, I guess it's a sign of the times though as I would imagine Apple put in a great deal of time and thought into what the market would bear. PS: I also have a hard time wrapping my head around why people pay for novelty skins for their avatars in games. But they do!!
    - brailsafe 7y ago
      I think that's a good analogy. I do occasionally spend a bit more for something a bit nicer. In this case, I guess my confusion is more a matter of degree. Would I trade in my iPad 3 for basically the same use but just very smooth? I haven't found myself remembering the times when I used my iPad $1k more, but I do remember the sort of magical feeling I got when playing around with it for the first time. The mac is a similar comparison. Now that all macs have great SSDs and great screens, what would it take for me to upgrade? Stands to reason that I'd more likely run into a real performance wall, so that extra 16gb of ram might make me switch, but the last few times it was because 1) stolen 2) numerous hardware failures 3) Upgraded from 2009 mbp because it couldn't effectively play 1080p video, the graphics card was failing, and the retina screen.

sigmaprimus 7y ago

On a more serious note, there are a few features that the pro model has that the standard model does not. The pro has a usb C port instead of the lightning jack, the display can be larger and the 1TB version comes with an extra 2 gigs of ram. I suppose if you can justify paying more for any Ios device over Android, why not pay twice as much for the pro version? Maybe the pro will be supported for a longer period of time and wouldn't end up under a pile of magazines on the coffee table. (like my Ipad one is!).

brailsafe 7y ago
There certainly are some technical advantages. As a mac/Android phone/ipad3 user, I appreciate the screen and ram in particular. But even the 4 or 6gb still seems meager and Safari still aggressively limits certain things. These are all nice vs my ipad 3 certainly, but apart from being a pure luxury device, I struggle to find how I'd make such different use of it than anything else. It's a great device to use for trivial tasks, but I just don't know what it's good for other than making most things smoother.
- sigmaprimus 7y ago
  I would agree with you, I guess it's a sign of the times though as I would imagine Apple put in a great deal of time and thought into what the market would bear. PS: I also have a hard time wrapping my head around why people pay for novelty skins for their avatars in games. But they do!!
  - brailsafe 7y ago
    I think that's a good analogy. I do occasionally spend a bit more for something a bit nicer. In this case, I guess my confusion is more a matter of degree. Would I trade in my iPad 3 for basically the same use but just very smooth? I haven't found myself remembering the times when I used my iPad $1k more, but I do remember the sort of magical feeling I got when playing around with it for the first time. The mac is a similar comparison. Now that all macs have great SSDs and great screens, what would it take for me to upgrade? Stands to reason that I'd more likely run into a real performance wall, so that extra 16gb of ram might make me switch, but the last few times it was because 1) stolen 2) numerous hardware failures 3) Upgraded from 2009 mbp because it couldn't effectively play 1080p video, the graphics card was failing, and the retina screen.