She will even "sell me her Kindle Fire, 3DS, ipod nano, ipig and her soul" if I buy her one. She tried to sell me her Xbox, until I pointed out that it was not hers to sell and already belonged to me 
She won't sell me her bike, she loves it too much.
She wants an ipad air. I do not want to buy her one. Not because we cannot afford one, it would be a big chunk of our christmas budget and she'd have to not do any big birthday celebrations, but we could afford one just.
The reason I do not want to buy her one is that a) I begrudge paying Apple's prices which I believe are massively inflated simply because it is an Apple product and people blindly believe they are best (although admittedly upon looking further into it ipad air is very impressive, but then so is the new Google Nexus) and b) Going on what she is wanting to use it for, there are more suitable, cheaper tablets out there for her, that do the job just as well but without Apple's price tag.
She is wanting it primarily for taking photos and videos, watching movies on the go and playing minecraft. The Galaxy Tab 2 is just as suitable for her. It's processor is slower, but as she is not as massive gamer, she'll hardly notice this and it's camera is not as good, but she is not a photographer, she wants it simply to take photos of her dogs to edit in photo editor/whatever it is she uses, a 3MP camera will do the job adequately. When it comes to watching movies, the ipad air has a much better display, however once you get past 1080p, the difference is hardly noticeable, imo, the Tab 2 has a bigger screen (something which she would notice) and plays a higher number of file types, meaning less pestering me to convert files for her and the Tab 2 has expandable memory, which she will need.
She also wants Skype/Facetime etc. to keep in touch with her Aunt. Both devices have HD web cams.
And the biggest bonus is that the Tab 2 is significantly cheaper. I do not believe the Air is £200+ better than the Tab 2. Plus 2 weeks after she gets it, she'll be moaning she's run out of space on it and asking me where her memory card is so she can swap it for a bigger one, just like she did with her ipod and kindle fire.
I've spoken to her about this and she is adamant that it is ONLY the ipad air she wants, although she is unable to tell me why beyond "It's the best because it's ipad and all my friends have one and Mr. X (her new teacher) has one because it's the best and if he says it's the best, it must be the best, btw we also need to buy a Mac because they are better than Windows PCs"
If she can't have the ipad Air, she'd rather have the cash to save towards the ipad, than the Tab 2.
She's a bit of a sheep and easily sold to.
AIBU?
To not buy dd1 the "ONLY thing in the world" she wants for xmas/birthday?
D0oinMeCleanin · 06/11/2013 10:15
didl, she's never been into toys. Crafts, outdoors, pets and gadgets - not toys or dolls. She'll ask for dolls and then never use them, so people stopped buying her them. I still remember the £55 doll that my mum bought her, that she needed because the telly box told her she needed it, it was still in it's box until earlier this year when she sold it to her baby cousin for a packet of Haribo.
Every Christmas and every birthday since she was old enough to talk she's asked for the same things. A puppy and an ipad. She's always given alternatives when asked and been grateful for what she has been given.
This year she has been more specific, she wants an ipad air and our foster puppy (this bypasses the Santa doesn't do livestock rule in her mind because the foster puppy is already here - all Santa has to do is donate to charity on dd1's behalf) she accepts that we won't be keeping the foster puppy and the reasons why, but there were tears, begging, bargaining and mild emotional blackmail before she reluctantly accepted that the foster puppy will be continuing to look for a new home. I already feel quite bad about this as it's the first foster dog dd1 has ever asked to keep. According to dd1 it's the first one that's loved her and the first one she has loved back 
She does understand my reasons and did apologise for using emotional blackmail on me.
She's getting craft things from other relatives and the only outdoor toy she uses now is her beloved bike which she does not want to upgrade.
I don't think she'll want an upgrade when a new model comes out. She's really not like that. She didn't upgrade her NDS Lite when they brought out new ones until they brought one out that did something completely different. She never asked for the NDSi or whatever it was that all her friends kept bringing round. She's happy with the old family wii and never asked for the new version. She's never asked to upgrade her netbook, despite it now not doing what wants to use her own computer for (the netbook was another "ooh, shiny, I need it" purchase that she was advised against but needed because it was blue and shiny and not plain and black like the laptop she was advised to get instead). She accepts that she chose it and now has to live with it (she is currently collecting old computers and parts in the hope of building herself a "free computer")
She only wants to upgrade her Kindle to the ipad because she bought the wrong thing, despite being warned that it did not do what other tablets do and she would regret it.
I think they all do have Minecraft at home BeQuicksie, some don't have their own tablets/have them but are not allowed to take them to school, so are allowed to use the school's ipads during freetime. This is all according to dd1 of course, although I did get a letter telling me where I could download the free version of Minecraft and what platforms it was available on and that she would be allowed to bring her own tablet in on a Friday afternoon but that one would be provided if she didn't have one.
They also are given time during "freetime" to use the school's Macbook to contribute to the "homework" project, if they want to. Dd1 uses freetime to "build her bits of the world" 
because she doesn't have a login for Minecraft so can't do it from home. None of this means anything to me. All I know about Minecraft is that it is some kind of virtual lego game and there are things called creepers in it.
Don't you think you should be more concerned about her following the "telly box" and being a sheep who is easily sold to than about whether to buy her another gadget or not? 
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