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[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Well, not a fan, exactly, but I am forced to be fully engulfed in the apple ecosystem.

I don’t hate them more than Dell, Asus, Sony, or Microsoft. Not everything they make is a ripoff.

the $10 A/D converter in the headphone adapters is a steal
the mac mini with base config is a good deal
the macbook air is worth the money and best in class
ipad — no worthy competition for most users
M-series chips and their energy consumption
savvy users avoid all the upsell ripoffs like storage upgrades and displays and sock slings

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

iPads cant even send SMS or make calls. The most gimped of tablets.

The rest of your list seems reasonable

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Meh, in my fairly extensive experience with end users, they don’t care about that, they have phones. Different use-case.

But I recognise that we’re here amongst many fussy edge-case users. Still the best tablet by majority acclaim even if you can’t use it as a phone.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I must have a weird sample then. My uncle specifically wants that because he doesn't want to have a separate phone. So he has a Galaxy Tablet. And a colleague at work recently inquired how she would log in to the phone company website to charge the prepaid plan if she can't get the login SMS.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Yep, most people seem to have cellphones, and if you wanted to use a tablet as a phone I would suggest an android tablet (or a cheap used smartphone, TBH).

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