Apple's Products Are A Giant Mouse-killing Chain Letter?

Seriously!?

Well, that's what these sites say.
http://deathofthemouse.com/2010/06/06/a-chain-letter-needs-a-good-supply-of-idiots/
http://deathofthemouse.com/2010/04/16/the-next-big-thing/

Uh, no.

Ipad vs. any other laptop/net/notebook
Ipad: 10 hour battery
other tiny computer, 3/6 if you're lucky.

Ipad, Ipod Nano 4th gen and up, Ipod Touch 3rd gen and up 32g and up, Iphone3gs same capacity, (not the 3g but the 3gs) : 6 hour battery, built-in screen-reader so the visually impaired can use them.

Other net/notebooks and cellphones: ZIP on accessibility, you have to buy extra stuff to get it accessible.

Packmate and other specifically designed accessibility devices are not on the market for just anyone and are designed specifically, exclusively for the visually impaired, the hearing impaired etc. and are not only massively expensive, but nobody in the mainstream tech scene knows diddly about them let alone they even exist at all. Isolationist, not cool.

For now, Apple is the only best game in town, maybe other companies will follow suit and start including accessibility features right into their products, and I hope they do.

Until then, I'm not going with Apple because it's the latest, most trendy thing around. I'm going with them because they have shown to be the first mainstream technology marketing company to give a darn about making their products truly accessible so you don't have to have good vision or hearing to be able to use them. I'm going with them on principle and out of practicality. Compared with other products, they simply do a heck of a lot more in some areas, not all, but even so, anything that has accessibility right onboard gets a thumbs up from me.

The Ipods store so much more music and have longer battery life compared with other portable mp3 players. That doesn't mean I'm ditching my Iriver ny time soon! It does something the Ipod doesn't - it records. But it is not accessible, so if you can't see, you have to be taught how to use it by someone who can or get a really clear set of instructions that doesn't use diagrams.

The Ipad does a great job playing Youtube videos and loading pages, faster than my Windows desktop PC, which I had to buy a screen-reader for, and that cost as much money as the computer itself.

The Ipad lasts all day, and charges over night. It came with the screen-reader so I didn't have to shell out a fortune to buy one. Nor does Apple employ an unfair policy of having one model minus the screen-reader and being much cheaper. All models come with this feature built in. So you don't have to pay through the nose just to get the same ability to use the product as the next person who has a better set of eyes or ears than you.

I was also never told to spread around a meme chain letter advertisement when I bought any of my Ipods or my Ipad, and was never once encouraged to go into sales representation for Apple.

So, Apple products are the chain letter that killed the mouse?

 

I don't think so...

 

There, think on that a while.

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