Re: Awful rants

Op 05/07/2025 om 20:04 schreef Ed Cryer:

Why do only complaints and rants about how awful iPads are get posted here?
I use several iPads; and they work well for me, enrich my life.
  Why don't we see postings such as; How do I do this or that? What's an app for doing ....? What are best free games?
 Ed

I have an ipad and regularly use it, I think there are good reasons to complain about the ipad. On the other hand it also works to some degree, so it's not all negative. It's just that apple intentionally makes many things very hard. I also have an android device and though there are complaints that would apply to both android and apple (like all the useless crap apps that primarily seem intended to rip people off), in many respects android does many things much better, like how comparatively easy it is
to access the file system.
You may feel that it works well for you, but perhaps you are simply not a very demanding user and you are easily satisfied because you are unaware of what's possible and to what degree apple obstructs people from exploiting the full potential of information technology.
The future still looks bright with developments in AI and hopefully tech tyrants like apple and google will soon be consigned to the recycle bin of historical curiosities, once AI revolutionizes information technology. At that point we can all agree to get rid of a pseudo-capitalist system with fake competition (given all the monopoly power big corporations have with neither transparency nor accountability) that drives humanity to the brink of self-annihilation by producing way too much useless garbage. We're already living in the age of abundance with all the culture freely accessible online.