{"id":2699,"date":"2026-03-21T10:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2026-03-21T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:22:33","slug":"an-ipad-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/an-ipad-epiphany\/","title":{"rendered":"An iPad epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was on a domestic 4 hour flight recently. And since it was a domestic flight, it was basically riding the bus. It was a single aisle A319 (yeah that\u2019s an old Airbus) with no seat back AVOD. There was WiFi, so it wasn\u2019t completely unbearable. The bandwidth was strong enough to keep me occupied with Netflix and YouTube for most of the flight, which was a pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Yes, this is AI generated. It was hard to get a proper photo of all those screens lighting up a dark cabin.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

While going up and down the aisle to use the bathroom, I noticed a lot of iPads. Every other passenger seemed to have one, all with some sort of TV show or movie on it. For every 8 to 10 iPads, there would be someone with a laptop of sorts either watching video or doing work. More of them were watching video actually. Everyone else was watching video on their phones or trying to sleep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why so many iPads? I did some Serious Internet Research<\/em>\u2122 and found out that you can download shows and movies from the major streaming services to a tablet for offline viewing later. Instead of downloading individual video files that can be shared with others (Ohhhhh Noooooo), it downloads the files to the app. If you download a few movies and seasons of TV shows, the app will become huuuge. You used to be able to do this with the Windows 11 Netflix app, but that useful feature was removed in 2024. Forget about doing anything of the sort with a MacBook Pro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did not know about this!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I currently have a 2nd gen iPad Pro 12.9\u201d that\u2019s almost 10 years old. It has served long and well, being the device I read while I have my 2 cups of black coffee in the morning. However\u2026since it\u2019s close to a decade old, it has been orphaned by Apple (software updates ended about 2 years ago), the battery health is just above 70% and more importantly, has only 64gb of memory. The OS takes close to 40gb so storage space is extremely limited. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now it\u2019s time for me to start looking around for a successor for my iPad. Have they always been this expensive??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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