iPad iLimit iPing!
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Posted on 04/25/2010 7:56:28 PM PDT by dayglored
A US gamer has been banned from ever buying another iPad. Why? He reached his "lifetime limit." Who knew that such a limit existed? ...
After two Apple Employees - identified in the tale as Guy #1 and Guy #2 - check his identity via credit card, Guy #2 informs him: "There is a limit to the number of iPads that customers can buy." Our protagonist ask what that limit might be, and Guy #2 answers: "Only 2 per customer."
At that point, Guy #1 returns, and the conversation takes on a Kafkaesque quality:
* Guy #1: I'm sorry sir, but you have reached your lifetime limit of iPad purchases and will not be allowed to buy any more.
* Me: Is the iPad limit per person? Per credit card? Per household?
* Guy #1: All I can say is that you have reached your lifetime limit.
* Me: What does that mean? Can I use a different credit card to buy it? I'm buying this for a friend.
* Guy #1: You are not allowed to buy this iPad.
* Me: Wait, what? Lifetime? What does that mean?
* Guy #1: All I can say is that you have reached your lifetime limit of iPads and will not be allowed to buy any more.
...
An Apple Store employee, noted: "The employee got it wrong. The *daily* limit is two iPads per day. The 'lifetime limit' is ten."
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
Well, let me tell you... I’m not good on the “futuristic guessing game” — but you should know that there are lots of Apple websites that will speculate on that one.
I wouldn’t be any good on speculation like that... and I normally don’t even have a “wish list” for what I hope they put on there, either... :-)
I may end up quoting others and their reasoning and maybe they know more about what is “coming down the pike” than I do, and so they’re interesting to read. And they may give some good rationale for their thinking, too (”just saying” that’s all...).
But, as for me, I’ll just wait and be surprised with whatever new features are added ... :-) AND... Apple does keep adding features all the time. That’s the nice thing about having something from Apple, when you can do updates by software.
Well, the bottom line for me is I don’t have to worry about it, because Flash is going to go away with time and open standards will be used. I can see that coming.
And I shut off all Flash that I can (on my computer), since it’s always annoying to me. And I figure that anyone who has Flash and if I can’t see what they have, because I have shut off Flash on my computer — then I figure it was never worth seeing in the first place.
That’s my view of it. So, this stuff doesn’t bother me very much in my own personal usage. I’ll let some other people wring their hands about it... :-)
BUT, as I said up above, I’ll still comment on the issue as it’s raised here, from time to time, because others may not know what’s going on with it and Apple.
"... get away from Flash ..."
Hey - NOBODY gets away from Flash.
Not Green Lantern, not Batman, not even Aquaman.
;>D
[... you would think someone killed their mother ... :-) ...]
LOL
You’re welcome.
Probably because in some places they cost more than that or are hard to find. Since they fit in a suitcase so easily, people can make big bux selling them back home in their countries.
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There was a personal limit to iPhone's as well... which was removed when the supply got sufficient. After a certain level, a purchaser had to contact the business sales group at AT&T or Apple.
I know of several non-corporate businesses who have purchased a couple dozen iPads... so there is something wrong with this story...
I was at the Apple store this weekend chatting with an employee. A couple of women came up and each attempted to buy two iPads.
They were questioned by the Apple peeps. You cannot buy an iPad with cash, it had to be credit card. They do monitor those who buy multiple iPads. Said they were mostly Asian cartels who buy for overseas entities.
At the core level, FLASH is dependent on "mouse over" events to trigger events and pop-up menu choices, plus mouse clicks or keyboard actions... and multi-touch and touch screens don't necessarily use those paradigms for their events. Flash would have be re-written from the ground up to accept the touch screen paradigm... but then you would have two different types of Flash content on the web. That which was written before the change, which will not recognize touch screen inputs, and that which was written to accept touch screen inputs. How long, if ever, would all the thousands of legacy Flash web apps be updated to work with the touch devices? Probably never.
Because american got the rollout first, ebay, etc.. is now being flooded with ipads purchased here, with foreign buyers paying thousands to get their hands on them sooner.
Was reading about how even in India, people are bidding over $2000 US for them.
And as usual, Apple strategically makes it harder to get them during the first months of any new major product rollout, so the press will run lots of “demand outstripping supply” stories.
Why doesn’t he just buy PC’s?
Because there's no freakin' mouse. It's a convention that doesn't fit a touch-screen interface. You might as well ask why there isn't a rewind button for the punched tape.
or why Java is allowed on there.
It isn't. You might be confusing Java with JavaScript.
That was my point. It isn't.
Yes, I just found that out. App$ it i$ then.
IF this is true, it sure seems pretty seedy at best. If I had a substantial fortune and wanted to give nice gifts - I might be the type to buy 10 or 15 (or more) iPads as gifts - Why would Apple have a problem with this (though it is their right to set arbitrary limits - it seems it would hurt them more than help).
Second - This just doesn’t sound legit. I might could see such a policy with iPhones under contract... But I have never heard of a buying limit on any Apple products.
Regardless- though this doesn’t pass the smell test - if it is a real and true story/policy, I suspect the publicity will bring about the demise of said policy.
Because there are a lot of stupid people who buy stuff on eBay! I remember when the 1st generation of Intel MacBooks went on sale - within a day or so of the first shipments, I started seeing them on eBay for 50% premium over ordering directly from Apple. Some folks are just stupid.
It's apparently a temporary limit while they ramp up production, similar to what they did with the iPhone, to limit gray market sales until supply meets demand.
You are kidding right? Every thing I have ever bought at Costco, is in their computer, you can bet on it.
OK - I will go with you on that one (and at times, I sometimes nearly wish I too could do Flash on my iPhone...):
If suddenly we had access to flash content on our iPhones/iPod/iPad... and every time you stumbled on Flash content, the device bogged down, even sometimes crashing or rebooting because of the resource hogging that Flash on every platform it currently runs on exhibits... who will users blame? Most are not bright enough to blame Flash/Adobe/the developer, and will automatically blame their device maker.
Dang Apple is going bust then, I guess.
In 1997 you could buy a G3 laptop for about $6,000.00, If you had bought Apple Stock instead, it would be worth about $330,000.00. Yep Apple is really stupid, and so am I, I took my profit a long ago, when it went over $100.00.
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