Today I went out and picked up a shiny new iPhone 4S to replace my still-pretty-shiny iPhone 4. I’ve been waiting to do so until after a jailbreak was available for this device. The release of the Absinthe A5 jailbreak, made that a reality.
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Earlier this year, I bought my wife an Amazon Kindle for her birthday. Not long before that, I picked up an Apple iPad. Given that I just wrote a post professing my love for the iPad, I thought I’d balance things out with a tribute to the Kindle.
I picked up an iPad the day they released the new version, and shortly thereafter I bought an Amazon Kindle for my wife’s birthday. After having used them both for a few months, I’ve found that the iPad is in many ways better than the Kindle.
Yesterday I reported that I was having troubles upgrading my iPad 2 to the latest version of iOS. I tried to make it work several times, but the progress bar would make it most of the way across before the process froze while “Restoring iPad software…”
Last night, while trying to update my iPad to the lastest and greatest version of iOS, I ran into a problem. For starters, iTunes crashed while installing the update. I thus had to put my iPad into recovery mode and try again. But then I got stuck.
Having owned an iPad since the day they released the new version back in March, I’ve now had some time to think about my decision and even to cook up a bit of buyer’s remorse. It’s not that I don’t like it, because I do. It’s just that I’m starting to wish I had bought a different version.
Last Friday I headed over to our local Apple retailer and picked up an iPad 2. When I returned home, my wife told me that she thought she might want one, too, but she later backtracked and decided to get an Amazon Kindle instead.
I just ran across a great little app called TuneIn Radio that lets you listen to “thousands of your favorite [...] stations and programs” on your favorite iDevice. It’s currently selling for $0.99 on the App Store, and it’s worth every penny.