Comments on: Eight Problems with my iPad… http://techtalk.shieldsgroup.com/2010/04/eight-problems-with-my-ipad/ A Place to Share Tech Discoveries Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:57:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: steve http://techtalk.shieldsgroup.com/2010/04/eight-problems-with-my-ipad/comment-page-1/#comment-546 steve Thu, 27 May 2010 23:46:07 +0000 http://techtalk.shieldsgroup.com/?p=97#comment-546 Yep. Apples have become like refrigerators -- when they stop working, you toss them. I'd say toasters, but they are not priced like toasters. As with toasters and refrigerators, their end users are what ham's used to call, "Appliance Operators." :) Yep. Apples have become like refrigerators — when they stop working, you toss them. I’d say toasters, but they are not priced like toasters.

As with toasters and refrigerators, their end users are what ham’s used to call, “Appliance Operators.” :)

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A design that shows palpable contempt for the owner
If you can’t open it, you don’t own it. Screws not glue. The original Apple ][+ came with schematics for the circuit boards, and birthed a generation of hardware and software hackers who upended the world for the better. If you wanted your kid to grow up to be confident, entrepreneurial, and firmly in the camp that believes that you should forever be rearranging the world to make it better, you bought her an Apple ][+.

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