<story><title>iPad Air</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/apple-unveils-redesigned-9-7-ipad-air/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NicoJuicy</author><text>The iPad to enrich people&amp;#x27;s live...&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but the iPad&amp;#x2F;tablets are mostly used for browsing, creating photos and using apps and games.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not really &amp;quot;enriching&amp;quot; life as i see it, it&amp;#x27;s a consumer device, not a production device... If you really want to make it enriching, make it non-obtrusive.&lt;p&gt;And i would feel sorry for those whose life really is enriched with a electronic device.</text></item><item><author>ek</author><text>I really, really dislike how much hate there is in this thread. I feel like someone always ends up making similar comments every time there&amp;#x27;s a new launch from Apple&amp;#x2F;Microsoft&amp;#x2F;Google&amp;#x2F;whomever, and there is never any change. Do you guys get psyched about &lt;i&gt;anything&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;p&gt;On the one end we have &amp;quot;Oh man, iPad air only has 1GB of RAM and 16GB of flash, how stupid&amp;quot; and on the other end we have &amp;quot;iPad hasn&amp;#x27;t cured cancer yet; would have expected more from Apple under Steve Jobs.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Has it occurred to people to like, take a step back for a moment and think about how amazing it is that we as a society have advanced to the point where we can even have something like iPad? The iPad, and devices like it, have done so much to enrich so many people&amp;#x27;s lives, and isn&amp;#x27;t that what we&amp;#x27;re about in this community? We&amp;#x27;re all trying to make people&amp;#x27;s lives better with computers, and Apple is as much a part of this mission as any of the people on this site.&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;s easy to get karma by ranting and raving, especially on a site like this where controversy drives more upvotes than downvotes simply because more people have upvote-only privileges. But I want us to be better than this; I don&amp;#x27;t want this to be the norm for discussion in this community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mark_integerdsv</author><text>My dad is 79 years of age. He could never adjust to the digital world.&lt;p&gt;Something as simple as checking a hotmail account was out of his reach.&lt;p&gt;With his iPad he is able to:&lt;p&gt;- keep on touch with my expat brother&lt;p&gt;- see pictures of his grand kids on FB and emails&lt;p&gt;- catch up woth long lost fire do on FB&lt;p&gt;- read magazines without his glasses&lt;p&gt;...in general: just take part in the modern world as opposed to being an outsider.&lt;p&gt;If you pity him then your pity is misplaced because he is massively grateful to have a tool that enables him to commune with his kids and grand kids and to commune with us online.</text></comment>
<story><title>iPad Air</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/apple-unveils-redesigned-9-7-ipad-air/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NicoJuicy</author><text>The iPad to enrich people&amp;#x27;s live...&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but the iPad&amp;#x2F;tablets are mostly used for browsing, creating photos and using apps and games.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not really &amp;quot;enriching&amp;quot; life as i see it, it&amp;#x27;s a consumer device, not a production device... If you really want to make it enriching, make it non-obtrusive.&lt;p&gt;And i would feel sorry for those whose life really is enriched with a electronic device.</text></item><item><author>ek</author><text>I really, really dislike how much hate there is in this thread. I feel like someone always ends up making similar comments every time there&amp;#x27;s a new launch from Apple&amp;#x2F;Microsoft&amp;#x2F;Google&amp;#x2F;whomever, and there is never any change. Do you guys get psyched about &lt;i&gt;anything&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;p&gt;On the one end we have &amp;quot;Oh man, iPad air only has 1GB of RAM and 16GB of flash, how stupid&amp;quot; and on the other end we have &amp;quot;iPad hasn&amp;#x27;t cured cancer yet; would have expected more from Apple under Steve Jobs.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Has it occurred to people to like, take a step back for a moment and think about how amazing it is that we as a society have advanced to the point where we can even have something like iPad? The iPad, and devices like it, have done so much to enrich so many people&amp;#x27;s lives, and isn&amp;#x27;t that what we&amp;#x27;re about in this community? We&amp;#x27;re all trying to make people&amp;#x27;s lives better with computers, and Apple is as much a part of this mission as any of the people on this site.&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;s easy to get karma by ranting and raving, especially on a site like this where controversy drives more upvotes than downvotes simply because more people have upvote-only privileges. But I want us to be better than this; I don&amp;#x27;t want this to be the norm for discussion in this community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hippee-lee</author><text>My daughter can create music with Easy Beats 3, she likes the auto drumming thing in garage band because she can record her own songs. She also likes to paint pictures with Paper, she has hot own books so we can keep our drawing separate and so we can print them out or share them. Finally, she makes little animations with Hopscotch. While these are all creativity generators she and I both refer to them as games.&lt;p&gt;I do use the iPad for Flipboard and netflix and games but just as often when I reach for my ipad I reach for my stylus to draw or headphones to create a song. I know I&amp;#x27;m n of one but one of the things I&amp;#x27;m teaching the next generation is that this one thing is a tool that can adapt itself to almost all of her tasks in school and beyond, when she wants to play, when she wants to create or when she wants to learn in a non school context. I don&amp;#x27;t know if most people look at it that way, but those who do will have more opportunity than those who see devices purely for consumption.</text></comment>