My new iPad came yesterday, and I’m as excited as Doc Brown finding out that his flux capacitor actually works!
Perhaps the best part is that, after years of having to constantly dump stuff to keep my old 32 GB model from getting too full, I now have 128 GB to work with! Last night, the new one automatically went to the cloud and downloaded every app that was on the old one (which I didn’t necessarily need it to do, because I can do without some of them), and when it was done it took up only 14 gigs!
I’ve got 114 gigs of completely clean, virgin, unexplored space lying before me! I’m like one of the English settlers at Jamestown with the whole continent to my west! (Yeah, not a particularly pleasant analogy if you’re a Native American, but it was the first one that came to mind. Race memory stored in the collective unconscious, or something.)
But when I left the house this morning, I suddenly chickened out and brought my old beat-up iPad with me instead. Because if I left the house with the new one it could get wrecked, stolen, scratched, breathed on wrong!
I think I’ll just go home to it tonight and rub it with a diaper.
OK, I’ll stop with the silly movie references now. But I’m kind of giddy about this thing. I’m a heavy tablet user, and having one that’s new and fast and doesn’t freeze up and has more space than I (currently) need is actually going to make my day-to-day life easier…
This reminds me — I really need to get a haircut…
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Back to the Future has one of the top 5 last lines of a movie.
I remember saying to a couple of my friends back in the late 90’s that I could just picture Bill Gates meeting with the main computer hardware makers. He was saying something like ” You guys help me establish Windows as the dominant operating system, and we’ll have people throwing away their computers and hard drives about every three years.” I’m an old DOS guy who heard folks say “Who could ever fill 10 megabytes?’ Of course, Apple was already established as the graphical interface guys, and their pricing has always been at a premium level – I just never imagined they would take and keep such control of their customers’ world.