For a while there, I thought that I was going to be a lone Android voice in an ocean of i-crap. Needn't have worried though.
Terry, my apology before it becomes necessary. I wasn't intending to argue the relative merits of different operating systems, just a little peeved that Bauer Media take us through all of that rigmarole only to arrive - eventually - on a page where they want us to go to something called the "app store?"
I love my enormous pile of PCs that go right back to vol 1, number one. I like the sensation of turning pages and maybe sniffing photos of Bedford CAs, classic Japanese hatchbacks, GRP-bodied Venezuelan minis (I wish), Dolomites, Fiat 500s or anything
Sam Gloveresque that may appear inside but here's a question for those in charge of such things at PCHQ: Given that many people like their downloads these days, why can we not have the option of a digital edition that's available for download in a universal format (PDF would seem to be the obvious way) so that we can have our dose of magazine on anything from a phone to a smart telly, any OS from Android to Windows?
Better yet, why not include a download code in every copy of the mag so that anyone who has legitimately obtained a paper copy will be able to get a free download of the same mag. OK, so the tightarses who read theirs standing in the shop and then put it back and leave would see the code too, but that would be a matter for the security staff at WH Smith to deal with.
Don't know about most vocal, Terry. Most
obsessive would be my take on the way in which Apple fans sleep on the streets for days at a time to be sure of their space in the queue to have the first editions of new kit.
iPads must be halfway decent though, I spilt marmalade all over a friend's one and that still works.
