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Do I Need a Bigger Screen?
Jan. 30th, 2024 09:45 pmIt's now been 6 weeks since I bought my first iPad. I had doubts about whether I'd find it useful. Sadly at the one month checkpoint I found my feeling that it's a third wheel proving true. At the 6 week mark nothing's different. I did have another flying trip (to Austin last week) where the iPad could have proved useful. Recall on my lengthy flights to/from Australia I really liked having the larger screen than my iPhone. But on these flights I was happy with the smaller, easily hand-held form factor of my phone.
"But why would you choose such a small screen??" some friends have sneered. ...Actually they're not friends but are in the widening category of Assholes I used to not mind.
One in particular always rode me, and everyone else who owned an iPhone, for choosing such a small screen when Android devices were clearly so much better because they were available with larger screens. The screen size of an iPhone has virtually never bothered me. Still I wondered, am I missing something? Then one time we were in a room together using our phones at the same time....
Yeah, the dude needs a huge-ass screen because he's practically blind. My vision isn't as detailed as it used to be, but it's nowhere near that bad. I'll stick with my easily pocketable phone for now. And sadly that means my iPad mostly continues to gather dust.
"But why would you choose such a small screen??" some friends have sneered. ...Actually they're not friends but are in the widening category of Assholes I used to not mind.
One in particular always rode me, and everyone else who owned an iPhone, for choosing such a small screen when Android devices were clearly so much better because they were available with larger screens. The screen size of an iPhone has virtually never bothered me. Still I wondered, am I missing something? Then one time we were in a room together using our phones at the same time....
His font size was so big 6 or 7 lines of text filled the entire screen.
Yeah, the dude needs a huge-ass screen because he's practically blind. My vision isn't as detailed as it used to be, but it's nowhere near that bad. I'll stick with my easily pocketable phone for now. And sadly that means my iPad mostly continues to gather dust.
