{"id":9451,"date":"2012-03-19T12:04:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T17:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=9451"},"modified":"2012-03-19T12:04:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T17:04:43","slug":"an-apple-hater-converted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/tablet\/an-apple-hater-converted\/","title":{"rendered":"An Apple Hater&#8230;Converted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9455\" title=\"reuven-in-apple\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/reuven-in-apple.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last Friday was a monumental day in my life. As an ardent anti-Apple advocate since my purchase of a second generation iPod touch way back in 2008, I have declared Apple products overpriced, showy, and too locked-down. I believed iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks were for the yuppies of the world, the hipsters, and those who just had to be seen as &#8220;cool.&#8221; But the new iPad 3 changed all of that for me.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time I can remember, I truly feel Apple delivers a product vastly superior to anything its competitors can offer. Between the Retina display, supposedly long battery life, and gorgeous industrial design, I can&#8217;t resist. So I did it. I gave in. Are the Apple fanboys and fangirls happy? I went out to the Chicago Apple store on the Magnificent Mile at 5 AM Friday morning and plunked down $546.41 for a white 16 GB WiFi iPad. And I felt wonderful about it. Upon opening it, I immediately felt validated with my purchase and momentary lapse of sanity in purchasing an Apple product. When that 2048 x 1536 crystal clear Retina display powered on, I knew I was in love. The weightiness gives it a feeling of extreme quality, and iOS 5.1 zooms like a Japanese bullet train. The only downside I currently see is the lack of Retina-updated apps for the new iPad.<\/p>\n<p>A full review will follow in which I really take the wunderkind tablet out to run it through its paces, but for now, I&#8217;m off on my honeymoon with my new best friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday was a monumental day in my life. As an ardent anti-Apple advocate since my purchase of a second generation iPod touch way back in 2008, I have declared Apple products overpriced, showy, and too locked-down. I believed iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks were for the yuppies of the world, the hipsters, and those who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12],"tags":[16,2347,105,57,425,2346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9459,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9451\/revisions\/9459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}