I’ll never buy another Apple product ! I’ve done with Apple

[Narcisus]

So why is it I find myself walking out of John Lewis yesterday with a 2017 iPad Pro to replace my Air 2 ffs ..... Damn you Apple.

[Nickbrapp]

Because despite their pitfalls could you really wake up in the morning knowing you owned a android?

[Narcisus]

Nickbrapp said:

Because despite their pitfalls could you really wake up in the morning knowing you owned a android?

I don’t mind Android to be honest :-)

[272BHP]

An argument can be made with regards phones but in terms of tablets and laptops there really is little competition to Apple.

Expensive? yes of course, but a lot of people don't mind paying for quality and support. Your iPad will still be going strong and crucially will still be supported in 5+ years time.

[Djtemeka]

My iPad Pro is 3 years old now and still 100% great.
Good equipment but at over £1000 you would expect many years of service

Edited by Djtemeka on Sunday 28th April 18:36

[NDA]

272BHP said:

An argument can be made with regards phones but in terms of tablets and laptops there really is little competition to Apple.

Expensive? yes of course, but a lot of people don't mind paying for quality and support. Your iPad will still be going strong and crucially will still be supported in 5+ years time.

Agree.

I'm typing this on a 5 year old MacBook that's 6 years old, used 24/7 and still works like new.

[deckster]

NDA said:

Agree.

I'm typing this on a 5 year old MacBook that's 6 years old, used 24/7 and still works like new.

All that and time travel too! Damn they've upped their game recently.

[SCEtoAUX]

I disagree.

Our iPad 2 ceased to be any use at least two years ago whilst our Samsung device of a similar vintage is still fine.

My Windows 10 self-build PC is still snappy after at least eight years, (upgrade from Win 7) whilst my wife's Apple Mac at just five years old is close to being unusably slow.

[PF62]

NDA said:

I'm typing this on a 5 year old MacBook that's 6 years old, used 24/7 and still works like new.

Is that supposed to be impressive?

[Boney2728]

SCEtoAUX said:

whilst my wife's Apple Mac at just five years old is close to being unusably slow.

I changed my hard drive to a SSD when mine slowed down. The difference is now like day & night, totally given it a new lease of life on a 6 Yr old computer.

[philv]

272BHP said:

An argument can be made with regards phones but in terms of tablets and laptops there really is little competition to Apple.

Expensive? yes of course, but a lot of people don't mind paying for quality and support. Your iPad will still be going strong and crucially will still be supported in 5+ years time.

Quality and support?

Buggy.....try contacting apple out of warranty and they’ll suggest a new screen etc costing more than the used value of the ipad.
Only for the issue to dissapear after an ios release.

Absolute rip off prices, due to lack of competition.

I use ipads as they are the best.
It doesn’t mean they are great quality and certainly not value.

1 year warranty for something costing up to and over 1k?
That’s a piss take.

Very happy to not have an iphone.
I can’t afford tne mortgage anyway.

[Engelberger]

philv said:

Buggy.....try contacting apple out of warranty and they’ll suggest a new screen etc costing more than the used value of the ipad.

I've never experienced this. Always fair and reasonable outside of warranty. I recently had a £400 screen replacement on a MacBook done FOC despite being 3 years old.

Being "Ripped Off" is generally based on your own perception of value. Although not cheap Apple present good value for money in my opinion. You are paying for a whole ecosystem that isn't repeated by anyone else.

[Narcisus]

SCEtoAUX said:

I disagree.

Our iPad 2 ceased to be any use at least two years ago whilst our Samsung device of a similar vintage is still fine.

My Windows 10 self-build PC is still snappy after at least eight years, (upgrade from Win 7) whilst my wife's Apple Mac at just five years old is close to being unusably slow.

I’m actually still using an iPad 2 to play legacy games and it’s running fine :-)

[craig1912]

SCEtoAUX said:

I disagree.

whilst my wife's Apple Mac at just five years old is close to being unusably slow.

Must be something wrong with it then- my 2012 mac mini is still very quick and I can’t see me replacing in the foreseeable future. My ipad pro also seems as good as new and my iphone 6s is faultless. Never had an Apple product until they launched the ipad

[plasticpig]

272BHP said:

An argument can be made with regards phones but in terms of tablets and laptops there really is little competition to Apple.

Expensive? yes of course, but a lot of people don't mind paying for quality and support. Your iPad will still be going strong and crucially will still be supported in 5+ years time.

So where do Apple sell a 5 year extended warranty for the iPad? I can buy a 5 year warranty from HP for an Elite X2.

[NDA]

PF62 said:

NDA said:

I'm typing this on a 6 year old MacBook, used 24/7 and still works like new.

Is that supposed to be impressive?

Yawn.

Compared to the dozens of laptops I've had over the years that didn't last half that time? I'm impressed.

[alorotom]

craig1912 said:

SCEtoAUX said:

I disagree.

whilst my wife's Apple Mac at just five years old is close to being unusably slow.

Must be something wrong with it then- my 2012 mac mini is still very quick and I can’t see me replacing in the foreseeable future. My ipad pro also seems as good as new and my iphone 6s is faultless. Never had an Apple product until they launched the ipad

My 2010 MacBookAir runs perfectly and the battery is still good for 3hrs when fully charged with medium brightness and WiFi/Bluetooth on.

Launch day iPad 2 still works well enough for living room browsing

Launch day iPad mini 2 is now my daughters and gets well used for various games and media consumption

Launch month iPhone 6 (works phone) still has 86% battery capacity and works like a charm

I was disgruntled with the £540+ rear screen replacement cost on my iPhone X that deemed it beyond economic to me but I still sold it on for £480 as-is

[anonymous-user]

NDA said:

Agree.

I'm typing this on a 5 year old MacBook that's 6 years old, used 24/7 and still works like new.

Probably because it was made in China

[GT4P]

My iPad mini which is now 5 years old stopped updating operating software about 18 months ago (still running 9.5) and is now a complete pain in the **** to surf the web, If it uploaded the latest operating software I am sure it would be fine!

[anonymous-user]

craig1912 said:

Must be something wrong with it then- my 2012 mac mini is still very quick and I can’t see me replacing in the foreseeable future. My ipad pro also seems as good as new and my iphone 6s is faultless. Never had an Apple product until they launched the ipad

I also have a 2012 mac mini, used it in the past for multi track recording raves for CD packs, so most weekends recording 10+ hours of multi channel audio, never once let me down, now gets used every day for streaming audio, Netflix, etc and still as good as the day I bought it. fking hate apple phones though!