Apple's iPad 2 is the 'Holy Grail' of computing

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In the words of freddie.

Flash !......    Arrrr! Arrrrrrr!
half the internet, doesn't work......!

I wonder how much of that is still true. Many sites over the lat year have moved from Flash for their video when browsing on an iPad/iPhone.

Of that "half" what proportion of that are simply Ads? That I can personally do without.

I will agree there are sites I go to and Flash stops me from seeing the content. The actual number of sites this happens at is nowhere near half, that I browse to. YMMV

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Hi,

This is what I think of it, YAWN

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And for parents of children who have never played an instrument before can now do play music in seconds. People who know how to play music take it for granted. The closest kids who have no idea about how to play an instrument got to playing music was following lights on a Casio keyboard. This is totally different. They can make their own music without knowing what they are doing on the device and show the world. Full songs using the smart instruments and it all sounds professional. It takes the arranger keyboard concept even further. This is a HUGE motivational tool to get kids to learn how to play.

If you think that is YAWN, great. To a 5 year old kid who has never played a note of music in their life, this is amazing.

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Wow you make it sound so pointless. If you had your way we could just load up some software and push a command function named "make art/music". Presto - instant music without actually having to do anything.

Doing it your way is only going to dumb everything down a few levels to the point where it is meaningless. The only art i am interested in is the kind where there has been struggle and hardship in bringing it all together. I don't like quick and easy.

You miss my point though. I am referring to all of the people who never ever even attempt to learn an instrument because they think it is too hard. Piano scales, lessons etc can be daunting. This gives people the ability to make music and experience the fun of doing that to give them motivation to get the lessons and become real musicians.

I don't mean for this to replace being able to play. It is opening up the world of music creation to more people and that is a good thing in my book.

Only 5% of the population here in Australia, roughly, play an instrument. That is 95% of the population that would benefit from this.

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People who know how to play an instrument absolutely *do not* take it for granted. They too started out not knowing how to play, but spend years and year honing thier crafts and talents. This whole "instant music" thing is doing nothing but diluting the cesspool of garbage and lowers peoples expectations even further.
Nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. Want to play an instrument? Great. But it requires effort and like all art forms isnt as easy as simply pressing a few buttons, unless you want generic soulless rubbish, which this Garageband will produce 98% of the time. That's fine if a person simply wants to have fun, but I have a bad feeling that the crap made with this sort of stuff, combined with a marketable face will find itself in the mainstream from time to time. The more of ths crap there is, the more people accept it and standards lower. Apple are slowly but surely making more of a whore of the music industry as time goes by.

It may make it to mainstream, that doesn't matter. That is an entirely different conversation. There are people who simply don't think they are good enough to ever learn an instrument and things like this help them overcome the obstacle of fear in learning one and can be the difference between a child learning an instrument or not.

By the way, I play many different instruments and I manage a large music instrument store. I see both sides of the coin.


PS: The drum loop on Umbrella - Rihanna came from GarageBand.

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Exploding batteries is.

No other product has had an issue with exploding batteries other than Apple?

Apple isn't perfect but that is a load of crap.

Sony
http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Sony-Goes-to-Bed-With-IBM-2.jpg/

HP
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1649552/hp-expands-exploding-battery-recall

HTC
http://www.neowin.net/news/htc-touch-pro-battery-explodes-the-trend-continues

I think you get the point.

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Shame Apple won't replace my exploded battery nor will they repair the damage it caused to my MBP.

Unlike the companies above.

I guess if you had AppleCare we wouldn't be having this discussion.

I bought an HP laptop and it had a new screen, DVD drive, Hard Drive and power supply in the first 9 months. When warranty fixed it I sold it immediately! Maybe they thought after two batteries, at least two motherboards and two DVD drives, MAYBE, you had an impact on the breakdowns. Not saying you did though you could see how they may think that. I had a first generation MBP and the DVD drive went on it. I sold it like that and the purchaser didn't mind.

Things break and go wrong. That is why there is warranty. Laptops get abused. They are not desktops that sit in one spot. They won't last as long as a desktop. That isn't limited to Apple either.

There is currently a guy who purchased a MacBook through my store almost 2 years ago who is attempting to get the laptop replaced free as his motherboard died. The repairers found insects inside the laptop along with Request for refund documentation on his hard drive for various different companies.

Where was I going with this..... oh I don't know. Go the Zune!

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:roflmao:  Seriously, do know know what you just said?

I don't know what tinpot corporatist state you live in but selling products with known defects is against the law in this country.  It is also a requirement to provide a 2yr warranty on electrical goods.

So I should have sold my MBP's "immediately" after having them repaired then?

For such a loyal cultist you don't seem to be aware of the fact that Apple KNOWINGLY sold MBP's with defective Nvidia 8600M GPU's.  Hence the several motherboard replacements I had.

Replacing them isn't Lord Steve being a wonderful altruistic messiah, it's THE LAW making him replace them.

Really? I could have sworn you just claimed I should have to pay for "Apple Care" extedened warranty crap to solve the problems with the broken hardware they knowingly sold to me.

Wrong.  One of these MBP's has done nothing but "sit in one spot" for three years being used as a desktop by a disabled woman who uses it for nothing but web surfing.

Apple WILL replace the battery AND fix the damage to the MBP whether they like it or not, as the hardware was defective to start with.  Batteries aren't supposed to explode.

Just one of the benefits in living in a country that doesn't allow it's citizens to be completely raped by corporations.

I don't know, perhaps I haven't been "holding it right?"........

I live in Australia. We obviously have different laws. Then again, your laptop is 3 years old now. Even with 2 years warranty, it would be out now. You choose what you wish to do. If I have products which have had a fault, I sell them and replace them. Everyone does what they choose to do. When a car begins breaking down it is cheaper to replace sometimes than to constantly fix it.

I am responding from being in retail for over 10 years and managing a retail store. You guys think we are "raping" you. I guess you don't work in retail otherwise you would see the other side. I am not saying either is right. There is always two sides to each story.

If the problem is known problem, hound them until you get results. Most customers are the most vocal when they have a problem. It would be nice if complements came back as loud when things went right, which in most cases is 99% of the time.

PLease don't call me a cultist. You have absolutely no idea what I am. Save the abuse for Apple. That is who you have your beef with. I didn't once call you anything. This is simply a conversation.

PS: The "holding it right" joke is dead. Let it go. It simply isn't funny anymore. I have an iPhone 4 and the issue is simply totally blown out of proportion. On top of that, nothing comes close to the "raping" Vodafone is currently doing to customers in Australia. It makes 'Attennagate' seem trivial.

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That post sux.

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