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Interwebs, you fail me!
Friday, November 23rd, 2012 02:42 pmOh, mes Amis, I fear that the social media are not the all-knowing resource I had hoped they may be.
I have wanted, nay, coveted a tablet computer – oh, cut to the chase: I have fancied an iPad for ages. Furtle bought one a couple of months ago and it’s great, but it’s her iPad and although I get to use it from time to time, it’s not personalised to my taste. Anyway, intellectually I know there are other iPadalikes out there, but we all know they’re just not as sexy as an iPad.
I have gallantly put this covetousness on the back burner because, frankly, I am still paying for the 1990s on my credit cards and my plan was to treat myself when the card debts drop to zero. This is happening slowly, but I’m not there yet. In the meantime, technology moves apace and Amazon finally in the UK, release the Kindle Fire HD, which whilst clearly smaller than the iPad and clones is also much cheaper. It may not do all that they do, but it seems to do pretty much what I want it to and Amazon have cleverly gone in the opposite direction of Apple who have made their iPad Mini eye-wateringly expensive. So there it is, an affordable £159. Not too bad, but just enough for me to conform my design of staying tabletless for the time being.
Except fo today, for one day only, Amazon rot their non-tax paying socks, are selling it for £99.
And do the social media advise me? They do not.
I have wanted, nay, coveted a tablet computer – oh, cut to the chase: I have fancied an iPad for ages. Furtle bought one a couple of months ago and it’s great, but it’s her iPad and although I get to use it from time to time, it’s not personalised to my taste. Anyway, intellectually I know there are other iPadalikes out there, but we all know they’re just not as sexy as an iPad.
I have gallantly put this covetousness on the back burner because, frankly, I am still paying for the 1990s on my credit cards and my plan was to treat myself when the card debts drop to zero. This is happening slowly, but I’m not there yet. In the meantime, technology moves apace and Amazon finally in the UK, release the Kindle Fire HD, which whilst clearly smaller than the iPad and clones is also much cheaper. It may not do all that they do, but it seems to do pretty much what I want it to and Amazon have cleverly gone in the opposite direction of Apple who have made their iPad Mini eye-wateringly expensive. So there it is, an affordable £159. Not too bad, but just enough for me to conform my design of staying tabletless for the time being.
Except fo today, for one day only, Amazon rot their non-tax paying socks, are selling it for £99.
And do the social media advise me? They do not.