Apple’s Ad Ticked Off a Lot of People…

…as it showed how one of its devices (in this case, the iPad) has become a functional replacement to a whole pile of things we used to use. Have you ever really listed it out? My “digital world” these days consists of an iPad, an iPhone, bluetooth earphones, an Apple Watch, an Apple TV and HomePod. For me, by far the most used items are my iPad, my iPhone, my watch. What have these things eliminated for me? 

Much of my library

All of my collected CDs / Albums 

Record players / CD Player / Hifi

My wallet and, well, money and credit / debit cards

Any regular use of paper, pencil, pens

Sticky notes

Tape recorder

Camera

Phone (we haven’t even ever had a landline in our home since we bought it in 2012)

Video recorder

Compass

Level

Calculator

GPS Device

Atlases and Maps

Laptop

Desktop

Photo Albums

Letter writing (for the most part)

Trips to the Bank

Trips to the Movie Theatre (for the most part)

Broadcast TV

Cable TV

File cabinets

Trips to the Library (our library provides access via the cloud and we download what we want)

Any number of games that I now play almost exclusively on my devices

Magazines / Newspapers

I’m sure I’m leaving tons of things out. Now, some people think that this is all pretty awful, and over all a loss. I honestly don’t feel that way at all. I am profoundly happy NOT to have all those things cluttering up my home and my life. Apple’s devices have streamlined my life. I could NEVER see going back to using a laptop or desktop ever again, let alone a camera or a GPS device. I still buy the occasional book. I’ll never give up my Bible for what’s on my phone. But over all, I think it was a great move to consolidate as many tasks as possible into a single machine. What do you guys think?