dbreslauer Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I'm sorry man, but thats really sad. Especially since the IPad is a piece of junk. Oh God yes I said it! I said that something by apple is a piece of junk! I've committed blasphemy! Bring on the flames! I'd say it sounds like you did the flaming here... Nothing wrong with opinions, of course: to each their own. whatever floats your boat... have fun! Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artie Owl Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Wayyy too many to name. Primary Phone is a Blackberry Bold 9700 though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman5293 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Do we have an Apple hater in our midst?? We do indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 An abacus, a wooden spoon, a handful of Gibson LPs, a typewriter, a pencil, a bike, and a copy of the Old Testament in braille..................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy R Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I'm sorry man, but thats really sad. Especially since the IPad is a piece of junk. Oh God yes I said it! I said that something by apple is a piece of junk! I've committed blasphemy! Bring on the flames! I will admit I was about as Anti-Apple as you could get since about 1995. I always thought they were over priced, non-intuitive and I hated the fact they were proprietary. Through the years I built many high-end PC's running both Linux and Windows and always ignored macs. Then when they went to the intel chip I built a "Hackintosh" and started to understand the OS a bit better. I bought an iPhone when they came out because my job is "Senior Webcast Specialist" for a large pharmaceuticals company so I have to keep up with new devices and how to stream live and on demand video content to them. Then we bought out another company that had a large percentage of Mac's so I got a macbook pro Gradis to start testing on. I also at the same time purchased an M-Box with Pro Tools. After spending about 2 days of trying to get it to load correctly on my PC I thought I would give it a shot on the Mac. I was up and running in about 20 minutes. So I started playing around with the Mac's more and started to find more and more I liked about them. Then when the Ipad came out I was like hmmm neat little toy but I don't see much point. Then our leadership here started getting them and I pretty much had to buy one to stay on top of my job. I have since bought another one for my girlfriend who also thought they were stupid until I brought mine home and I noticed she couldn't put it down. So I bought her one too. I have also since purchased a new Mac Book Pro and I have to say... I really like the Mac stuff. The Windows stuff was always just pissing me off. So I can understand where you're coming from but I have to say that since I have been using the Mac I have been happier and have found the iPad to be a cool and useful device. From a former Ant-Mac Guy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman5293 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 When I look at an IPad, all I see is a giant IPhone. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy R Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 When I look at an IPad, all I see is a giant IPhone. :/ Yeah I did too. What I found is what is Supposed to be cool on an Iphone but is a pain is actually usefull on the iPad... I use it a lot at work now instead of lugging my laptop around or a pad of paper... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SG FAN Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 And what's wrong with an iPhone?? By the way I'm not an Apple "fanboy", I just think it's the best device out right now. I'll likely go with Android when the platform catches up with the iPhone, which IMO, it hasn't yet. I'm not blindly biased toward any company, if they've got a good product, I'll give it a spin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Well... first of all, yup, almost everything we do today is digitalized and computerized. Microwave, tv, I largely make a living with a camera and as Pippy noted, it's all digital nowadays although I have serious concerns about shooting four times as much and then figuring "history" is being lost when I have to dump stuff. Cell phone, yeah, texting as little as possible given my living environment. Too many things get misunderstood without voice and face to face is better yet, even were it on computer. Oddly it seems the cam isn't taken all that seriously even by otherwise tech-savvy folks. Let's see... Just my own "personal" stuff for computers... a Mac used only for negative scans, currently 2 PC desktops, I'll pull at least one more out of retirement by summer and rebuild/repurpose it as a dedicated recording machine. Regular laptop/notepad and a netbook. The latter two mostly are backups for the desktops, although both also function as my "music listening machines." As for today's Macs... yeah, I think they're horribly overpriced hardware and the software is worse. Just a variation of Unix in terms of OS... But I'm guessing that the PC also is heading seriously along the same lines. My prediction is that at some point it'll be something like the Ipad - or better, a HUD jobbie in one's glasses - and everything else will be cloud programs and virtual keyboards and controls. I doubt I'll see it, though, and I think it'll be way too vulnerable to hacks and even environmental damage... but... EDIT: One should note that all the Iphones and pads and dingleberries and such are starting to hit some bandwidth walls - and in my part of the country it's often worse since the infrastructure ain't yet there. The problem isn't so much the little devices we buy as the structure that allows them to function. "Cute" doesn't cook dinner. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy R Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 And what's wrong with an iPhone?? By the way I'm not an Apple "fanboy", I just think it's the best device out right now. I'll likely go with Android when the platform catches up with the iPhone, which IMO, it hasn't yet. I'm not blindly biased toward any company, if they've got a good product, I'll give it a spin. Hmmm well from my stand point nothing as I upgraded to the Iphone 4 after having the 3G for 2 years. There are a few things I don't like about the iphone over the android but it has more to do with ATT than anything. My point was some of the things that the iPhone can do are very cool but not all that easy sometimes. If you take those features and functions and add them to the iPad format they are a lot more usefull and fun to use. IMHO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 My main digital device is my fingers. But I use them in an analog way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SG FAN Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Hmmm well from my stand point nothing as I upgraded to the Iphone 4 after having the 3G for 2 years. There are a few things I don't like about the iphone over the android but it has more to do with ATT than anything. My point was some of the things that the iPhone can do are very cool but not all that easy sometimes. If you take those features and functions and add them to the iPad format they are a lot more usefull and fun to use. IMHO I was actually replying to Tman's post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy R Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I was actually replying to Tman's post. That's what I figured... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 My main digital device is my fingers. But I use them in an analog way. I knew I could count on grampa to carry the old world torch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidl Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 My main digital device is my fingers. But I use them in an analog way. Thanks Grampa. I was thinking along the same line as you but you got your finger on the button first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragoro Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 64 gig iPad and 120 gig zune and 16 gig droid 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShredAstaire Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Ok fine here's my list... 32 GB iPod Touch 32 GB Ipad WiFi Mac Pro Desktop Macbook Pro Notebook Line 6 Spider Amp Wacom Bamboo Touch Pad/Tablet 42" LCD HDTV Xbox 360 Thats all I can think of right now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzoboy Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I have a digital camera-no i-pods or stuff of that sort.I have a Vox AD120VTH with a VC-12 foot controller that are what I guess you'd call digital and a circa 1982 Ibanez DM-100 digital delay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabba2203 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Daily Digital Carry Devices: iPod Touch 64 (3rd Gen) HTC Droid Incredable Dell Mini 9 laptop CLEAR networks 4G wireless mobile USB modem Blackberry 3330 TomTom One GPS (I don't keep it in my car) I "use" and own more digital crap than I can remember to type. I like gizmos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I'm sorry man, but thats really sad. Especially since the IPad is a piece of junk. Oh God yes I said it! I said that something by apple is a piece of junk! I've committed blasphemy! Bring on the flames! People that hate Apple almost always fall into the category of teens and Tweens that sit playing silly computer games all day and if your in that category than it would make sense you don't like them, the Apple platform excels at music, art and graphic creation all of which I find much more interesting than playing at being a digital soldier or any of the other modern make believe that our modern social shut-ins consider life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabba2203 Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 People that hate Apple almost always fall into the category of teens and Tweens that sit playing silly computer games all day and if your in that category than it would make sense you don't like them, the Apple platform excels at music, art and graphic creation all of which I find much more interesting than playing at being a digital soldier or any of the other modern make believe that our modern social shut-ins consider life. The main thing that turns most people off of Apple products is not the products themselves but the majority of the Apple product users and their attitude. I own an iPod, that's about as close to Apple MAc-Mac people I want to get. I'll stick with Unix and PC, my system can do all the same music, art and graphics a MAC can. This isn't 1990 anymore. The hardware and OS has been cross platform for awhile now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SG FAN Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Yeah, but the Apple haters can be worse, sometimes, than the Apple fanboys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 This might sound stupid but sometimes I just stare at my iphone and can't believe how technology has advanced to such things as a touchscreen or a portable screen/computer/music/video/phone/all in one. I can´t even guess how it is for the guys who've been here long before me (I'm only 32) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 TG... Actually I think folks my age with a certain slant to their early "education" may have been among the better early adapters. We were taught as we went to school in that first two decades after WWII pretty much that neat stuff was coming. We bought into it. I personally was privileged to have attended the high school where former NASA assistant director Bob Seamans had graduated and whose son attended a grade or two behind me - and we got an annual update on NASA, new tech, neat stuff just around the corner. When the newspaper where I worked got computers, I was among the first to use the fancy terminals, learn embedded typesetting codes, to operate the OCR machine... and that was in the '70s. I knew it was the wave of the future and approached it as a neat and fun adventure in learning new stuff. I don't think everybody took it that way, but I know I did. Touchscreens... that was a little surprise, but early steps to that are nearly 30 years old. Everything was shrinking rapidly as the IC replaced the transistor that replaced the tube. Actually the improvements in batteries are more of a surprise to me in ways than the other stuff. Heck, I'm still awaiting a HUD for glasses to replace flatscreens and a light pair of gloves to power a virtual keyboard and stuff. In fact, high tech is one of the few things of current culture I find all that attractive nowadays. Ditto a lotta farmers and ranchers in the US, at least. It's kinda neat to know rancher friends round up cattle on horseback and even drive them to market that way - or they buy and sell via arcane Internet sites with various premiums for certain sorts of livestock. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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