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Title: What is it about Apple?
Post by: MR MISTER on 25 November 2013, 13:34:37
Wifey has made her mind up about her Christmas present. iPad mini 32Gb at  £399. I think that's fickin extortionate. She already has her iPad 2, but this will be 'much easier to carry about'.
Once they get hold of you, it seems there's no escape. :-\
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: tunnie on 25 November 2013, 13:37:15
MrsT is the same, i stole borrowed brand new Nexus 7 from work for her to use. Had a go for about 10 seconds on it, "nah I prefer the iPad"  ::)

I can see her point though.... but as I'm changing roles, that means current pad needs to be returned. So I need to steal another one find one to borrow  ;D
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: MR MISTER on 25 November 2013, 13:39:31
MrsT is the same, i stole borrowed brand new Nexus 7 from work for her to use. Had a go for about 10 seconds on it, "nah I prefer the iPad"  ::)

I can see her point though.... but as I'm changing roles, that means current pad needs to be returned. So I need to steal another one find one to borrow  ;D
Well, I'm afraid, I can't see her point. I got this Toshiba tab from ideal world last Christmas for £120. It is.......adequate.
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: MR MISTER on 25 November 2013, 13:40:39
In fact, I ordered her bleedin iPad on this. >:(  ;D
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: Gaffers on 25 November 2013, 13:44:19
I'm in the same boat :(
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 25 November 2013, 13:53:54
Wifey has made her mind up about her Christmas present. iPad mini 32Gb at  £399. I think that's fickin extortionate. She already has her iPad 2, but this will be 'much easier to carry about'.
Once they get hold of you, it seems there's no escape. :-\


Mrs Opti will be getting an assortment of kitchen products, along with a copy  of Godfrey Bloom's  best selling book on 'Kitchen Management for women'.... :y

Lucky girl. :y
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: MR MISTER on 25 November 2013, 13:57:04
Wifey has made her mind up about her Christmas present. iPad mini 32Gb at  £399. I think that's fickin extortionate. She already has her iPad 2, but this will be 'much easier to carry about'.
Once they get hold of you, it seems there's no escape. :-\


Mrs Opti will be getting an assortment of kitchen products, along with a copy  of Godfrey Bloom's  best selling book on 'Kitchen Management'.... :y

Lucky girl. :y
I'm starting to wonder about you, Opti. I think Mrs. Opti probably wears the pants in your house and this forum is pure escapism. You can talk to me anytime, old friend, in the strictest confidence, of course. ;)
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: D on 25 November 2013, 17:18:08
Oddly enough, I managed to get my wife off her iphone onto a SG4 and ipad onto a Nexus7. She still has her macbook pro though.
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: Mr.OmegaMan on 25 November 2013, 17:27:22
My days of apple are coming closer to the end  :-X, My 13 month iphone 5 32gb has recently been having battery issues, Like shutting down at 39% and only lasting an hour or 2 with little use, Contacted apple they won't do it for free but will for £62.44... Luckily I pestered them enough getting it done free "One off exception" so they say after testing the battery through an email diagnostic of some kind.. Still I'm losing faith in apple, Can see me getting an Android something like one of those new Sony smart phones eventually.
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: chrisgixer on 25 November 2013, 17:41:42
The mini is such an improvement over the big ipad. There's no reason for the big ipad to exist IMO. But make sure you wait for the new one. Ipad mini with retina display. As my original mini is struggling now. Noticeably slower than the iphone5.

...although it still does the job. Tbh.
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: TheBoy on 25 November 2013, 17:49:34
My days of apple are coming closer to the end  :-X, My 13 month iphone 5 32gb has recently been having battery issues, Like shutting down at 39% and only lasting an hour or 2 with little use, Contacted apple they won't do it for free but will for £62.44... Luckily I pestered them enough getting it done free "One off exception" so they say after testing the battery through an email diagnostic of some kind.. Still I'm losing faith in apple, Can see me getting an Android something like one of those new Sony smart phones eventually.
Std Li-on battery, so good for about 300 charges, so about 2 years on a heavily used gayPhone owned by a, errr, gay person.

Not taken apart a 5, but I can say when I changed the battery in her old 3GS last year, its built for servicability. Battery was less than a tenner.
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: TheBoy on 25 November 2013, 17:50:04
And should add, symptoms are classic expired battery...
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: Gaffers on 25 November 2013, 17:59:42
And should add, symptoms are classic expired battery...

How do you know so much about gayphones?  ::)


And yes, I classic battery issue and changing it is very easy on most of the iPhone models.
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: zirk on 25 November 2013, 18:08:04
Been asked to get Her an iSomething, so getting an iron, might take the handle off though so it cant be used as a weapon.
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: Rods2 on 25 November 2013, 18:17:02
Wifey has made her mind up about her Christmas present. iPad mini 32Gb at  £399. I think that's fickin extortionate. She already has her iPad 2, but this will be 'much easier to carry about'.
Once they get hold of you, it seems there's no escape. :-\


Mrs Opti will be getting an assortment of kitchen products, along with a copy  of Godfrey Bloom's  best selling book on 'Kitchen Management for women'.... :y

Lucky girl. :y

She certainly is this year where iirc previously it was a new fridge and before that a replacement washing machine. It is good to see romanticism at Christmas is not dead.  ::) :o :P ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 25 November 2013, 18:23:29
Wifey has made her mind up about her Christmas present. iPad mini 32Gb at  £399. I think that's fickin extortionate. She already has her iPad 2, but this will be 'much easier to carry about'.
Once they get hold of you, it seems there's no escape. :-\


Mrs Opti will be getting an assortment of kitchen products, along with a copy  of Godfrey Bloom's  best selling book on 'Kitchen Management for women'.... :y

Lucky girl. :y

She certainly is this year where iirc previously it was a new fridge and before that a replacement washing machine. It is good to see romanticism at Christmas is not dead.  ::) :o :P ;D ;D ;D ;D

Yee Gods....Opti knows how to spoil his wife  :o ::) ;D
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: Gaffers on 25 November 2013, 18:29:22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukhw0388k3U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukhw0388k3U)  ::)
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: TheBoy on 25 November 2013, 18:30:25
And should add, symptoms are classic expired battery...

How do you know so much about gayphones?  ::)


And yes, I classic battery issue and changing it is very easy on most of the iPhone models.
Some nurse told me.
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: Gaffers on 25 November 2013, 18:32:21
And should add, symptoms are classic expired battery...

How do you know so much about gayphones?  ::)


And yes, I classic battery issue and changing it is very easy on most of the iPhone models.
Some nurse told me.

No nurses around here that I can see  :P
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: TheBoy on 25 November 2013, 18:37:04
And should add, symptoms are classic expired battery...

How do you know so much about gayphones?  ::)


And yes, I classic battery issue and changing it is very easy on most of the iPhone models.
Some nurse told me.

No nurses around here that I can see  :P
Is that because its not the weekend?
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: Gaffers on 25 November 2013, 18:37:43
Is that because its not the weekend?

New job ;)
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: tunnie on 25 November 2013, 21:06:19
Is that because its not the weekend?

New job ;)

Matron?

Congrats :)
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: AndyRoid on 26 November 2013, 08:21:47
Been asked to get Her an iSomething, so getting an iron, might take the handle off though so it cant be used as a weapon.
Apple & Blackberry have created a new device for the ladies that don't listen, it's called the Black-I  ;D
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 26 November 2013, 08:27:25
I would be reminding Apple of the law and the need for them to honour the legal two year warranty........

.....particularly as the battery is not easily removed like many other phones........
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: Gaffers on 26 November 2013, 09:19:24
Is that because its not the weekend?

New job ;)

Matron?

Congrats :)

Yup it's time for Pinky to take your temperature.......
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: Gaffers on 26 November 2013, 09:19:56
I would be reminding Apple of the law and the need for them to honour the legal two year warranty........

Not just apple......
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 26 November 2013, 09:27:39
I would be reminding Apple of the law and the need for them to honour the legal two year warranty........

Not just apple......

In the case of a battery failure its a grey area IF the battery is user serviceable..... :y
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: aaronjb on 26 November 2013, 10:22:08
And yes, I classic battery issue and changing it is very easy on most of the iPhone models.

A little less so on the 5/5c/5s as it's glued in once you get into the phone, requiring heat and/or brute force to remove it..
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: zirk on 26 November 2013, 11:02:15
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I would be reminding Apple of the law and the need for them to honour the legal two year warranty........

.....particularly as the battery is not easily removed like many other phones........
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Thats cheating  ;D

Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: AndyRoid on 26 November 2013, 14:57:38
I would be reminding Apple of the law and the need for them to honour the legal two year warranty........

Not just apple......

In the case of a battery failure its a grey area IF the battery is user serviceable..... :y
I've yet to see any handset manufacturer give more than 6 months warranty on a battery.
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: MR MISTER on 27 November 2013, 21:27:41
I went to curry's to pick her mini today, it had been sent there by courier. I opened the box before I left the shop cause it felt like there was nothing in it. Piddly little thing.
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: TheBoy on 27 November 2013, 21:30:59
Opened her pressie? tut tut.

S'pose I should get something sorted for the old bag's burfday in a couple of days...
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: MR MISTER on 27 November 2013, 21:40:58
Opened her pressie? tut tut.

S'pose I should get something sorted for the old bag's burfday in a couple of days...
just the brown box it was delivered in. I daren't touch the cellophane wrapping, haven't you seen the fanboys faces doing the unwrap? It's like a fickin orgasm.  ::)
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: TheBoy on 27 November 2013, 22:01:58
Opened her pressie? tut tut.

S'pose I should get something sorted for the old bag's burfday in a couple of days...
just the brown box it was delivered in. I daren't touch the cellophane wrapping, haven't you seen the fanboys faces doing the unwrap? It's like a fickin orgasm.  ::)
Gixer on christmas morning...
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: chrisgixer on 27 November 2013, 23:27:08
Opened her pressie? tut tut.

S'pose I should get something sorted for the old bag's burfday in a couple of days...
just the brown box it was delivered in. I daren't touch the cellophane wrapping, haven't you seen the fanboys faces doing the unwrap? It's like a fickin orgasm.  ::)
Gixer on christmas morning...

Nope, before then. Had a confirmation email, mine has been dispatched. It's somewhere in China. Oh really ;D
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: bago on 28 November 2013, 06:08:24
got mrs ipad last year bought her xbox one this year ::) ;D
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: chrisgixer on 28 November 2013, 09:55:14
got mrs ipad last year bought her xbox one this year ::) ;D

;D yeeeah that's the spirit ;D
Title: Re: What is it about Apple?
Post by: AndyRoid on 28 November 2013, 17:10:42
Opened her pressie? tut tut.

S'pose I should get something sorted for the old bag's burfday in a couple of days...
Is it the 29th?