I make a lot of aspirational purchases. I constantly buy books I really ought to read, subscribe to magazines that are so good the one time a year I actually get around to opening them, and add movies like Schindler's List to my Netflix queue because it's an important cultural touchstone. My credit card bill makes me look worldly and educated — my actual habits involve a lot of watching It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and re-reading The Da Vinci Code.
Last fall, I bought an iPad mini hoping that consolidating all those things into one place would make me more likely to do them. It didn't, really — movies don't look that great on the mini's screen, magazines take about 46 years to download, and oh man are there a lot of fun games...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/26/4558626/google-nexus-7-review-2013
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