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1a.: [ADMIN] Re: [macsupport] (OT) More on the Kindle Fire

Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com nikyzf

Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:38 am (PST)

This thread was already off topic but now it's gone beyond that to
personal.

I'm replying here simply because this the latest in the thread. Can we
*please* stop discussing the Kindle now?

(What you do off-list is up to you. ;) )

Thanks,
Otto
(moderating)

On 20 November 2011 23:26, Christopher Collins <maclist@analogdigital.com.au
> wrote:

>
> On 21/11/2011, at 10:08 AM, Pat Osborne wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:41:36 +1100, Christopher Collins wrote:
> >> People who need to justify to themselves why their purchase is
> >> "better" than an iPad are just as annoying as iPad lovers.
> >
> > Whoa, I must have missed something! Who said "better," just less
> > expensive!
> >
>
> In your case "better" must mean less expensive, otherwise you would have
> an iPad.
>
> >> Having used both, I have to say I find the iPad and iOS a much more
> >> operating environment.
> >
> > Oh, "an operating environment!" Whatever that may be... :-?
>
> missing word is "consistent"
>
> > .
> >> I find that "ease of use" worth the few extra dollars.
> >
> > Being retired for a couple of years and being somewhat restricted on
> > *income*, I cannot have such a cavalier attitude about "the few extra
> > dollars!" If I still were working, yes, I'd likely have an iPad.
> >
> > Sure nothing difficult about using the Kindle Fire...for me anyway.
> > Too bad you had difficulties!
> >
> I wonder why you think I found it any easier to pay for an iPad? Everyone
> I know has money problems.
> I just recognised that the extra costs was worthwhile.
>
> >> Haters are just as bad as fanboys.
> >
> > Yes, very true. I'm sorry you hate Kindles! I still have the first
> > generation Kindle, still working just fine. I also have the FIRST
> > generation iPod Touch, which is OK. Never had to hate one to use the
> > other!!!
> >
>
> I don't hate Kindles. I just don't use them because they don't respond as
> well or as simply as my iPad. They are unable to do all that I do with my
> iPad.
>
> Things are always cheap for a reason, and it usually means they aren't
> built as well. Screens are the perfect example.
>
>
> > Guess you're one of the 1%, CJC! Or, you don't comprehend the written
> > word, English, that is!! ;^) Ah, just noticed you're an Australian,
> > a rich one at that!!! That's what the "1%" refers to here in the
> > States.
> > I've never known such a cantankerous Aussie!
> >
> I would like to be one of the 1% as you put it, but then I'm not going to
> bring politics into the discussion.
>
> And cantankerous is far from what I am. Just because I disagree with you
> doesn't make me cantankerous.
>
> > NO MORE NEED BE SAID! Don't care to clutter the group with further
> > nonsense!
> > No hater here, not for the **expensive** Apple products nor the less
> > expensive Amazon products.
> > --
> > Pat (off-list)
>
> Lots and lots of assumptions in there about who and what I am. All because
> I disagreed with you.
>
> Maybe you need to explore why that is rather than abusing people on=-list
>

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