Even if it's for a silly reason at least you're no longer buying an iPad.
iPad
i'm not sure wanting to keep the things i've purchased in the same state i purchased them in is silly
Not wanting to purchase an iPad because it's a flaming piece of shit is not as silly as your outrage over Apple's draconian stance on bunch of useless applications. Where were you for the past 20 years? This bullshit is pretty standard MO for Apple. Regardless, you came to your senses so that's all that counts.
i only bought an ipod touch last year, and had never paid attention to apple before that because i had no reason to. so yeah, i truly was unaware they did stuff like this all the time.
it's not outrage, you're reading far more emotion into it than was present. it was more of a shrug and a "well, fuck all that. guess i'll buy a tablet."
i don't really give a crap about booby apps, but here's where it's not useless - apple signs a deal with marvel comics to distribute e-versions of their catalog, which is a possibility give the jobs/disney/marvel connection. suddenly comic reader mobi, comiczeal, and any other reading app which allows you to load your own comics disappears. sure, you could keep the ones you already own, but you'd never get a compatability update whenever the OS is upgraded (which is now the situation with apps that use USB syncing).
i already own a netbook and a laptop, so i only want a device like the ipad to do a few things, two of which are reading my own books and comics. it's come to my attention that both types of apps are in danger of being altered to the point of being useless, or of being forced out altogether. seeing as i've already paid for some of these apps, and that's all i really want to use the device for, that's not a silly reason for not purchasing.
too bad, i think the iPad would have been perfect for what i wanted to use it for (and i really, really don't care what other people wanted out of it since, you know, i'd be buying it for me). so, change of plans, no big deal. i'll just flip the netbook i have now and put the money towards a convertible tablet/netbook instead of selling the ipod touch and putting that towards an iPad.