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If I give someone an iPad, I can be 99% certain they won't make it unusable or full of viruses in a month. Have you seen the average person's Windows desktop?
by meaty 14y ago
If I give someone an iPad, I can be 99% certain they won't make it unusable or full of viruses in a month. Have you seen the average person's Windows desktop?
I'm not sure that's a magic bullet. Amongst my family and friends at least, I have seen the following problems instead:
The iPad is now broken because they gave it to their kids to play "poke santa until he falls over" or whatever it is, they dropped it and it had all their stuff on it and they can't get it back because they have no idea what all their sign ins were and whether or not stuff was on facebook or the device or not. Can't get it off either because it's stuck together and the flash is soldered on the board.
The Windows PC is still full of crap, but at least we can get most of it back every time by yanking the drive, plopping it in a spare machine, virus scanning it, cleaning it up and sticking it back in their PC. Worst case, they lose a few infected jpgs or their WoW account details.
We get a lot more "fuck you iPad!" than we do with a PC to be honest.
- brnstz 14y agoI'd say the worst thing about the iOS environment is that everything isn't synced to the cloud consistently. It's approaching that. Restoring your stuff should be a matter of knowing a single sign in. We're getting there. But yes, you're right, there may be stuff on the flash drive that you can't necessarily get out. Not everyone has a tech support person to restore their Windows machine from a crash. It sounds easy to you, but it is not. The average person should not need to run a redundant backup system in their house. I love "open" computing and I would never want to be without it. But I've played tech support for my friends and family long enough to know it's never going to be for everyone.
- meaty 14y agoHowever, I think everyone knows someone who can fix it. There is something to be said for ubiquity. Although it is annoying being family tech support.
- hcarvalhoalves 14y ago> Can't get it off either because it's stuck together and the flash is soldered on the board. That's hardly the solution anyway.