Very Disapointed in New Apple Purchases.
I recently bought two I-pad minis for my children as well as Ipad Air for myself and the Mrs.....My intent of getting these was to allow my children to stream their favrite music and videos as well as complete their onloine learning sessions supported through school....Well they can go online and stream videos and listen to music, but this device is uselss for educational purposes. I've now tried it on every website supported by my kids School, and the only way I can get it to work is to download another browser, and tehy fail miserbly at accomplishing the task.
I guess I should have done more research, but I had no idea that Adobe flash player and java and their lack of support for IOS devices would affect so much.......I've down loaded every other web browser I could find to help them in their tasks and none are really sufficient. Most of their learning on the School websites use Adobe Flash for online learning games. With the extended lag time using these other browsers it makes copeting on these webiste and in these games nearly impossible. Not what you want from a device that cost $400.00/each.
I guess I should have looked further into it. I spent far too much money on these devices for them to be just for videos and music, and really would like to return them now. I guess I thought that we had no issues with our home's Mac Mini, so why would we have issues with the IPADS? I really wanted the Ipad to be a great personal tool to allow them to complete all their tasks and have fun as well.....
So now I have severely over priced toys that cannot really do what I want them to do, and feel like i've been ripped off by Apple. I guess I didn't realize that the OS and IOS were completely different platforms and it never enetered my thought patterns that one of the best companies in personal computing would allow such a travesty of non-conformity to hinder the usefulness of what are really very good devices. No one at the Apple store even brought this issue up to me, and I outlined in detail how I wanted to use them.
Ipads are not like phones....more and more people are using them as PC's at least for many online functions....so it's strange to me that this is the case with Apples coveted Ipads.....I just spent over $1500.00 on three devices that cannot accomplish basic tasks. I could have bought $ 200 to $300 PC Laptops that would have done the job a lot better.......
What do I do now?
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