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<blockquote data-quote="Merlin the Tuna" data-source="post: 5366692" data-attributes="member: 55638">Piratecat, I love you, but this is a little ridiculous.&nbsp; You bought devices from a company that PRIDES ITSELF on being incompatible with as many industry standards as it can get away with.&nbsp; If you're upset that third-party software doesn't work on those devices, then you were either misinformed regarding their capabilities or seriously misjudged whatever information you had.Much as the world may try to convince us otherwise, smartphones are not &quot;near-ubiquitous&quot; -- a quick glance at Wikipedia pegs them at merely 20% of the American cell phone market.&nbsp; (Also, Apple isn't the market leader as far as OSes go: that goes to Android).&nbsp; And the iPad market is an order of magnitude smaller than that.&nbsp; You can't just buy fancy toys and expect the world to bend over&nbsp; backwards to accommodate them.&nbsp; (Well you can, I guess, but we're seeing that doesn't always get you far. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Merlin the Tuna, post: 5366692, member: 55638"] Piratecat, I love you, but this is a little ridiculous. You bought devices from a company that [I]PRIDES ITSELF[/I] on being incompatible with as many industry standards as it can get away with. If you're upset that third-party software doesn't work on those devices, then you were either misinformed regarding their capabilities or seriously misjudged whatever information you had. Much as the world may try to convince us otherwise, smartphones are not "near-ubiquitous" -- a quick glance at Wikipedia pegs them at merely 20% of the American cell phone market. (Also, Apple isn't the market leader as far as OSes go: that goes to Android). And the iPad market is an order of magnitude smaller than that. You can't just buy fancy toys and expect the world to bend over backwards to accommodate them. (Well you can, I guess, but we're seeing that doesn't always get you far. :p) [/QUOTE]

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