RayTheFirefly
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I have NEVER understood people who take an iPad into a park like that. It makes zero sense.
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HatboxGhost
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Double yes.
Chef Mickey
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Me too...I think people think they are a lot "cooler" and more useful than they really are, so they take them everywhere. Tablets are fine as toys, but they don't replace laptops, don't replace cameras for sure, and having one doesn't make you a techie. Leave them at home and enjoy the parks! If you must, take your real camera.
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216bruce
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OK. You all win. Sorry.
But Walt had paths laid in places the grass was getting trampled on at DL, not fences. He was into giving the guests what they seemed to want. Pretty sure you can look that up.
Chef Mickey
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My favorite are people who hold up iPads and cell phones during fireworks. To make it worse, they are taking pictures WITH the flash. Do you really think that flash is doing anything for an object that far away? Do you really need awful amateur pictures and/or video of fireworks or Fantasmic?
Things to remember for all you people
1) Your fireworks pictures will come out terrible
2) Your fireworks video will come out terrible
3) You are missing the show trying to take terrible pictures and video that you'll never look at again anyway
4) You are annoying me
5) It's called youtube.com if you want a video of Wishes or Fantasmic and it will be 100% better than your own.
Things to remember for all you people
1) Your fireworks pictures will come out terrible
2) Your fireworks video will come out terrible
3) You are missing the show trying to take terrible pictures and video that you'll never look at again anyway
4) You are annoying me
5) It's called youtube.com if you want a video of Wishes or Fantasmic and it will be 100% better than your own.
Lord_Vader
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There are handy uses of PADs in general but here are my top complaints while everyone is bashing PADs.
They are abysmal cameras, just plain ridiculous to use one as a camera for photos or video.
They block the views of anyone behind you if you are taking photos or video.
The screens are bright at night, result in guests behind them being blinded.
People using them for these purposes look like morons to us.
I use mine for email, keeping score sheets (score casting for parents that cannot make the game) for my son's high school & American Legion baseball teams, and a few other occasional uses including watching movies on trips whether in an airport or my son watching in the backseat while riding. Never a camera, never a video camera, never in a theme park.
They are abysmal cameras, just plain ridiculous to use one as a camera for photos or video.
They block the views of anyone behind you if you are taking photos or video.
The screens are bright at night, result in guests behind them being blinded.
People using them for these purposes look like morons to us.
I use mine for email, keeping score sheets (score casting for parents that cannot make the game) for my son's high school & American Legion baseball teams, and a few other occasional uses including watching movies on trips whether in an airport or my son watching in the backseat while riding. Never a camera, never a video camera, never in a theme park.
graphite1326
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You know what, now that I look at the original post pic, I think the parent is standing (on the left) there with her ipad taking pictures of the fireworks.
eeyoremum
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Why the iPad hate? I agree I would never bring mine to Disney but I use mine everyday for WORK.
Meetings, reminders, notes, social media (I work in an environment where it is heavily used), calendar, industry related apps. You can print, share or email with it. You can kill zombies using a variety of plants
in your spare time.They are a useful tool when used correctly.
Chef Mickey
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Yeah, they are OK for basic email, reminders, calendar, etc, but my phone can do all that. If I need an actual computer, the iPad doesn't meet my needs at all. I'm a financial analyst though.Why the iPad hate? I agree I would never bring mine to Disney but I use mine everyday for WORK.
Meetings, reminders, notes, social media (I work in an environment where it is heavily used), calendar, industry related apps. You can print, share or email with it. You can kill zombies using a variety of plants
They are a useful tool when used correctly.
My hate on the iPad is that it's so expensive and a $200 Android tablet does every single thing the iPad does and costs less than half. I'm more irritated by people bringing iPads or any tablet to the parks and using them incorrectly. iPad happens to irritate me more because I think it's so overpriced and people try to argue that it is just as good as a laptop.
Dwarful
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I'm not sure that is the adult vs. an older sibling....hard to tell from the back. But either way it is wrong. We were walking around AoA in early June. There were two families in the Lion King area while we were taking pictures. There were about 4 kids climbing all over even though there were signs saying "Do NOT Climb"....all of a sudden here comes two CMs yelling "Please get down now" over and over while the adults are oblivious....the CM walks right up to my husband (I guess because he was with me and I was taking pictures) and says "You need to get your children down right now" my husband looked at him and said loud enough for the other parents to hear "those are not my children...my children can read and know if they disobey the signs there will be trouble..."then he looked at our girls and said "Right girls?"...at that point the parents walked up and got their kids down.
Lord_Vader
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People that argue it is the same as a laptop are most likely playing simple games and surfing the web. I will argue that (at least in my experience) the iPads seem to have a longer shelf life for support, apps, OS updates than most of the less expensive Android versions. Also, when I purchase an app on my iPad I get to use in on all the households iPads and iPhones if it works on both saving me a few $$$. My daughter is using the original iPad, I have a Gen2 and my wife has the most current retina iPad mini so we are heavily invested in IOS devices but we do find the value. Not to mention I can still sell the original iPad for over $100 even after four years of heavy use, around $100 a year isn't a bad deal with all things considered.
Chef Mickey
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Totally agree....wish I could like this 100 times.
People also need to realize a flash on a regular camera will do nothing when taking pictures of the castle from 200 feet away. Same goes for pirates.....you will get an awful, bright picture that looks nothing like what you're seeing in person and you'll annoy me and everyone on the boat.
Chef Mickey
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Don't get me wrong, I like Apple as a company and their products are good. I own an iPad and do enjoy using it for casual internet browsing and email when I'm too lazy to get up. I just get irritated when people think they are laptop replacements and just as good. I do think they are overpriced, but do agree the apps are usually supported better and run cleaner, but Android is catching up. My Galaxy S3 has been a rock solid phone...much better than the iPhones I've had in the past which were ruined with Apple software updates that slowed them down to unusable.
So what you are saying is that we might get a new ride plopped right into the middle of the hub.
Lord_Vader
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Heck my 630-EX flash can't drive that far let alone a cheap point-and-shoot or an even worse cell phone.
Lord_Vader
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I don't disagree... Once we made the initial investment in iDevices the upgrades were usually fairly cheap as the previous models sold for enough to cost justify an upgrade. With the iPhone I can usually sell a 2 year old version for more than the brand new one costs new resulting in a new phone every two years at zero net cost for me, including a new cover or two most of the time.
Never had an iPhone get unusable due to software updates though... In ten or eleven iPhones that have passed through my household we have had one with a hardware issue and that is my home button that needs to be replaced and will cost me $16 for the part through iFixIt.
Mr Anderson
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Totally agree; I wish I had more likes to give. Oh, and a small amendment to #4...
4) You are annoying me and everyone that has the displeasure of standing directly behind you. That iSore you think is the size of a phone is actually quite large and blocks out a good portion of the show for those of us with the sense not to use a friggin' tablet to record fireworks.
It takes all my willpower not to 'accidentally' bump into one of these fools hard enough to knock their precious, overpriced iPad to the ground, and then work up my best "oops" face:
Sorry, I was just trying to see the show!
Chef Mickey
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Exactly! That big ipad screen is bright and quite large if you put it nearly in front of the person's face behind you. People just HAVE to get their very own video, no matter how terrible. They miss the whole show, annoy everyone around them, and have a shaky, dim, and poor quality video they'll never watch again.Totally agree; I wish I had more likes to give. Oh, and a small amendment to #4...
4) You are annoying me and everyone that has the displeasure of standing directly behind you. That iSore you think is the size of a phone is actually quite large and blocks out a good portion of the show for those of us with the sense not to use a friggin' tablet to record fireworks.
It takes all my willpower not to 'accidentally' bump into one of these fools hard enough to knock their precious, overpriced iPad to the ground, and then work up my best "oops" face:
Sorry, I was just trying to see the show!
eeyoremum
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I think the big issue here is not really an iPad or phone, tablet, etc. It is about distracted parents who care more about what they are doing on their device. I recently took a social media and society course. We were tasked with taking a social media diet and writing about our experience. This is my post. Please take in in the "somewhat" toungue and cheek manner I intended:
This week we were challenged to give up social media for 48 hours. The challenge may have been difficult for some of you, since using social media has become such a vital part of communicating in our society, but for me, it was not difficult at all! Why? I don't use it; no Facebook, Twitter (I have an account but don't use it), Instagram, or Pinterest....and....no...wait for it.....CELL PHONE.
At this point you must be thinking you are attending class with a dinosaur; not really but maybe just a little bit. I am in my early 40s which is now the main demographic of Facebook users. I have tried each of these social media platforms and I just don’t see the appeal.
Now, why might I be construed as a dinosaur? Is it because I am older, crotchety, or just plain judgmental? People, you are not oh so important that we need to know every little thing you do or think in an update! You don't need to be "in contact" every second of every day. My generation, and those before me, lived without being in constant communication and we survived. One of my sons will be 20 in a month and he survives without a cell phone by choice. It can be done, honestly.
Ask yourself these questions: What are you missing by constantly staring at a screen or talking into a device? Who are you ignoring? Really think about it for a minute. I will wait.... Done?
Consider this....
I spent a wonderful week in October at Disney World. My happy place but something there this time made me incredibly sad. I witnessed so many young children crying, screaming and generally acting like little brats that perhaps needed a good old spanking (before you rip my head off I know spanking has fallen out of fashion). I then decided to look at the parents (did I mention judgmental?). I saw so many parents talking, texting or doing goodness knows what on their fancy little devices that these poor children were just trying to get a little attention. I wanted to scream "Hello parents, you are at Disney World get off your @#$% phones and spend some time with your little ones. Before you know it they will be adults." These little children are not to blame for trying to get some attention. I lay the blame squarely on the parents. Unfortunately, I see this scenario played out far too often. Pay attention next time you are at a mall and you will see it too.
I am not saying never participate in social media as it can be used for good purposes. Families and friends that live far away can stay in contact easier and it is entertainment after all. Personally, I scrapbook for entertainment (yep, maybe a little bit old).
This week we were challenged to give up social media for 48 hours. The challenge may have been difficult for some of you, since using social media has become such a vital part of communicating in our society, but for me, it was not difficult at all! Why? I don't use it; no Facebook, Twitter (I have an account but don't use it), Instagram, or Pinterest....and....no...wait for it.....CELL PHONE.
At this point you must be thinking you are attending class with a dinosaur; not really but maybe just a little bit. I am in my early 40s which is now the main demographic of Facebook users. I have tried each of these social media platforms and I just don’t see the appeal.
Now, why might I be construed as a dinosaur? Is it because I am older, crotchety, or just plain judgmental? People, you are not oh so important that we need to know every little thing you do or think in an update! You don't need to be "in contact" every second of every day. My generation, and those before me, lived without being in constant communication and we survived. One of my sons will be 20 in a month and he survives without a cell phone by choice. It can be done, honestly.
Ask yourself these questions: What are you missing by constantly staring at a screen or talking into a device? Who are you ignoring? Really think about it for a minute. I will wait.... Done?
Consider this....
I spent a wonderful week in October at Disney World. My happy place but something there this time made me incredibly sad. I witnessed so many young children crying, screaming and generally acting like little brats that perhaps needed a good old spanking (before you rip my head off I know spanking has fallen out of fashion). I then decided to look at the parents (did I mention judgmental?). I saw so many parents talking, texting or doing goodness knows what on their fancy little devices that these poor children were just trying to get a little attention. I wanted to scream "Hello parents, you are at Disney World get off your @#$% phones and spend some time with your little ones. Before you know it they will be adults." These little children are not to blame for trying to get some attention. I lay the blame squarely on the parents. Unfortunately, I see this scenario played out far too often. Pay attention next time you are at a mall and you will see it too.
I am not saying never participate in social media as it can be used for good purposes. Families and friends that live far away can stay in contact easier and it is entertainment after all. Personally, I scrapbook for entertainment (yep, maybe a little bit old).