>>>>Have you seen the new ad for the Kindle where a woman (using Kindle) and a guy (using the iCant) are outside in bright sunshine reading books by the pool? I think that you can figure out who's having the problems seeing his book :)
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>>>>I'm well aware that the iPad doesn't work well in sunlight. My outdoor activities include basketball, yardwork under protest, and the occasional walk around the block to check out the nubile teens. :)
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>>>>Make note of any times you may have wished you'd brought your laptop (i.e., a real computer) instead. Imagine this scenario, your mother-in-law takes a very nice picture of your daughter hugging the dog (I think that you hate cats) and she wants to give you a copy. What are your options?
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>>>>First, we are cat people, though I like most dogs except little ankle biters (and people who yelp the word "iCant")
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>>>>In this instance, my mother-in-law takes a picture and shares it either to my phone #, or to my email address, or to her facebook account. We've already done that dozens of times. Then I can bring it into iTunes and synch it to my iPad. I've already built several photo galleries.
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>>>>One of the sad things about people who parrot the term "iCant" is that nearly 100% of them are afflicted with ICTFMS...."I Can't Think For Myself" <s>
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>>>No, we can think for ourselves and thats why there is so much backlash against Crapple. We think, unlike the fanboyz who sheepishly follow what Jobs feeds them. Here's what you can do with it. Here's what you can put on it. Here's how you can put stuff on it. Nothing more. You don't have to think.
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>>>As for the scenario I described, you are right there beside the camera that just took the photo. Let's see now. Your mother now has to fire up a computer, go online to email/facebook/picassa/blah/blah...to you. You then fire up another computer, go to your email/facebook/picassa/blah/blah...to download it to your computer. Then you plug in your iCant to "synch" it before you can view it. Whew. How about this instead? Connect that miniUSB cable from your mothers camera to your USB capable device (read real tablet) and just copy it. How about, take that SD card out of the camera, pop it into the SD slot of same device and copy it. Wow. How's that for magical
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>>>The next version of the iCant may get such magical features then Jobs will market it as miraculous and the sheeple will say, "we are not worthy". He'll be treated as the second coming.
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>>Wow, this is getting a little personal. I do not understand this level of animosity from you.
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>Well I was called a parrot and was told that I couldn't think for myself. How could I not take it personally? I think that you already knew my feelings towards Apple in general anyway. Look at that, I didn't say Crapple. Oops looks like I did it again :)
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>>It's a level of animosity I don't share but I did have my first bad experience with Apple last month. I had the iPhone in the front pocket of my jeans and was at the gas station filling a container for the lawn mower. When I bent over to pick up the can I felt a slight crunch in my pocket. I didn't think much of it until I got home and took the phone out to put with the wallet and car keys. The screen had cracked like a spider web. It still worked fine so I just lived with it. (Which is where I should have left things). A couple of days later at work a coworker saw it and said,"Come with me." She took me over to one of the support guys who has experience with busted cell phones. He dialed up a site called iFixIt which sells repair kits. The one for the iPhone costs $40. "Don't go to Apple, they'll charge you a hundred bucks," Tom said. I ordered a replacement front panel and it came in the mail a few days later.
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>>They have detailed online instructions and I followed them without incident until near the end. There were two steps I couldn't do. One was reinserting some unimaginably small screws. They are so small you can barely pick them up. I was also having trouble reattaching some cables which are also very small. I headed down to the nearest Apple store, thinking they might help me complete the job.
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>>Think again. I waited for quite a while until my number was called. As soon as I started explaining the situation to the "genius" behind the counter she looked at me like I had brought in a bag of dog squeeze. "You didn't get this from us, did you?" she said with a note of alarm. Of course not -- they don't sell the parts. She said let me go talk to my boss. She came back and said we can't possibly work on third party parts. Furthermore, she said, the minute you opened the case you voided your warranty. We cannot help you with this unit.
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>>Out of curiosity I asked her what it would have cost if I had gone to them in the first place. $99. You would have to see this piece to truly appreciate that price. It's a piece of plastic weighing far less than an ounce.
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>Sorry to hear about your phone and $99 for a piece of plastic does sound like robbery. I can share your pain. When I bought my daughter her iPod Touch (look at that I didn't say iCa...) I took out an extended warranty just because of the fact that the battery is not replaceable unless you send it back to you know who. That and the fact that her friend's iPod Touch also cracked like you described from some "simple rough play". The cracked surface I can understand having to send back, but to not be able to replace the battery? That's just ludicrous.

Yes. You would think that with as many customers as they have they would appreciate us instead of viewing us as a source of further income. I do respect what Steve Jobs has done but that is one cold blooded guy.

Salud for your restraint ;-)