I don't know about you but I doubt all the apps I bought add up to 50 USD. As for cables, etc. Apple hardware has a great second-hand value. I sold my iPad 4th gen some time ago and averaged over the 18 months I used I paid like 2 visits to Starbucks a month for each month of usage. Most apps I use are available for Android as well and it wouldn't bother me if I had to pay again for those, we're talking about a few bucks each.

Just saying...

People seem to migrate from iOS to Android and vice versa so I think you're "lock in" is a non-issue. I would almost say that moving between Linux distributions or even upgrading to a more recent distribution of the same vendor is more problematic.

And since Android app crash rates are actually lower than iOS ones

Source?

However:

For reducing anger and aggression, the worst possible advice to give people is to tell them to imagine their provocateur’s face on a pillow or punching bag as they wallop it, yet this is precisely what many pop psychologists advise people to do. If followed, such advice will only make people angrier and more aggressive.

Source: http://www-personal.umich.edu/...

without the need of Flash?

Just grep the (locally) installed modules, there are plenty of occurrences of "ugly hack". Even my own Perl code uses this, but rarely.

So you haven't discovered Haskell yet... No idea who modded you insightful but a more realistic view can be read here: http://norvig.com/21-days.html (currently down). Sadly I know and then have to maintain code written by people who seem to think like you. I really don't get it why this myth is still alive.

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Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Intel, see: Haskell in industry: https://wiki.haskell.org/Haske... I don't know when you were in school, but if it was in the 90s (like me); the FP landscape has changed quite a bit since then. I did the edX course FP101x Introduction to Functional Programming (98%), which I can highly recommend to get a feel for Haskell.

For those who never heard of Haskell and are looking for an example project written using this language check out Pandoc: http://pandoc.org/. Other examples are Darcs (version control) and xmonad (tiling window manager).

The shrinkage might be just because iPads lasts very long. "Older" models are handed down to family and friends, at least in my experience. My mother is still extremely happy with her iPad 2 (!). Also, I guess some people are waiting for the iPad "Pro" (or however it's going to be called) to be announced in October 2015. So I think the shrinkage is just temporary and sales will pick up later this year.

I've bought twice an Acer notebook and it was twice too often. Now the Dell inspiron I bought 7 years (!) ago is still going strong. Only issue (so far) is that the charger is no longer recognized by the notebook thanks to a known issue by Dell. Sadly Dell refuses to do a thing about it but a charger is cheap.

No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.

The fan noise is a deal breaker for me. At least based on the description.