Apple gets the lead in user satisfaction with their iPad by JD Power

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A year after being placed as a leader with both the iPhone and the iPad and lose the position in favor of Samsung, Apple is having a spring joy watching the JD Power company repositioned the iPad as the best tablet according to a survey customer satisfaction. A maximum of 1,000 points, 830 have achieved. Now Samsung tablets are in second place, but only a negligible difference of eight points. Amazon, which last year was in second place, has dropped to fifth.

In general, the major complaint among respondents is the ease of use. And Apple does not escape criticism: all tablets have become more complex to use as they have become more powerful and applications have to do more. In short, Apple remains the leading competition but still pushing hard, and therefore all devices evolve fast.

The iPad, a tablet you use and all

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You carry the Nintendo Wii to your parents house for Christmas to have fun as a family with a strong boxing and bowling session in Wii Sports. Your parents freak out and immediately decide they want one. Do not wait too long and the same falls Reyes them. Their neighbors are soon also try the game as if it were a virus, suddenly everyone needs a Wii. 

Surely you remember the situation, it was very common a few years ago, as common as all those consoles terminasen gathering dust as a decorative item plus saloon. With tablets has gone something like, everyone wanted one last Christmas and as above were undoubtedly one of the gifts star.

No wonder. After all this is a great invention. One for the first time about really personal computer users of all profiles and age. My father reviews the latest eBay auctions comfortably in his chair while my mother lying on the sofa reading an electronic book or surf the Internet laughing with the last link we have spent her friends. And yes, a Wii is watching them from the corner of the room where he has spent the last six years off. 

But of course, my parents use iPad, the second generation to be exact, and use it daily because they not only like, but also understand and know how to use it for things you really wanted to do but often not made ​​by the difficulty sitting down at the computer and face their thousand inconveniences.

His neighbors also succumbed to the fever tablets, but the iPad was $499 more than they were willing to spend on this occasion. Luckily for them, the supply of tablets that had come under the shadow of the iPad stretched in all directions. Samsung, Sony and hundreds of previously unknown brands crowded with more attractive prices, some as ridiculous. All work the same and serve the same, right?

All work the same and serve the same, right?

Apparently not . Or that's the first conclusion is reached again and again every time you look Chitika graphs on web browsing from tablets and find that year after year , by far the tightening competition and the market flooded with tablets to follow bargain price , hardly anyone use anything other than the iPad . They have tablets , yes, but as decorative items.

And is that not all tablets are the same. Even those that work great, even on paper outperform the iPad in technical data that do not interest any mother. Only one has iOS, only one has 500,000 applications are not extended versions of phones, only one hit as soon as for those who already have one for years continue squeezing without feeling the need to buy another. It's called the first iPad you buy will be your faithful companion for longer than is best for Apple itself. The rest? Well, they are great in the magazine or just in the gap left above the Wii.

The Apple Store beginning to accept devices for proper recycling

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Apple is on the way to being one of the most sustainable and respectful with the environment multinational world. And leaving far behind those years when your hardware components was extremely toxic, from Cupertino and take a few months promoting their good work in regards to ecology. A "Better" campaign of which I talked about yesterday is joined today a new service: the ability to recycle any device in their stores.

With this new initiative all Apple Store become recycling centers electronic material. The electronic material accepted from shops be any Apple device and any mobile phone, that is, that whether you have an old iPod which hard drive is dead or Nokia year potato is collecting dust, you can take it to an Apple Store for recycling properly, since components of these devices are made that can not be lightly pull, and need proper treatment.

Collection devices for recycling is free, but if your device is new and has some value, and we appreciate that value may give gift vouchers that can be redeemed at any Apple Store. All information about this new recycling initiative is on the Apple website; noting that the Spanish company will ECOEMBES (in Spain) in charge of the treatment of all waste.