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Update: 8 months after we bought this, the stand would no longer hold onto the ball that allows it to swivel. The iPad kept falling out no matter how much I tightened the knob holding the ball, and so it was pointless to try to use the iPad in the stand. No worries! I emailed AboveTEK about it, telling them about the problem, and received a reply within a couple days asking me for the order number and a picture. I looked up the order on Amazon, took a screenshot, and took a picture of the 2 pieces of the rack, and emailed them my reply. In another couple days I received an email telling me a new stand was on the way. Within a couple days we had a new stand! Any product might fail in some way, that is bound to happen with anything, but when a company stands behind their product like AboveTEK has in this case, that is a company that has earned my trust, and I will stand by them, and continue to do business with them! Kudos to AboveTEK! Perfect! That’s what my wife keeps saying over and over again! For medical reasons, she frequently has to be confined to bed. She had been wanting something to hold her iPad when she went to bed, and wanted to watch a movie on YouTube, or play a game, or use her iPad for any other use while lying in bed. She thought about an articulating arm holder coming out from the headboard of the bed, but that would bounce around too much, especially if she wanted to tap on the screen to select things. She also considered a rack of some kind, but given that she would typically be using it at an angle, a fixed rack wouldn’t work very well. Another thought was some kind of “bag” type of support, but again, that wouldn’t work that well. She kept airdropping me ideas she had looked at, but for one reason or another, none of them seemed a very good solution. So I began to research myself. My thought was that it would have to be something portable, because each night before I came to bed, I had to get her iPad and connect it to her charger before I came to bed. So the articulating arm wouldn’t work well because it would be left hanging over her head. Then I found this AboveTEK Stylish Aluminum Tablet Stand, Cell Phone Stand, Folding 360° Swivel iPad iPhone Desk mount holder. With it, she can tilt her iPad for the best viewing experience while she is lying in bed. It is solid and has a heavy base, so it is very stable while watching a movie, or using the iPad for other things while in bed. Perfect! And even better, she can also use it throughout the house, wherever she is! It’s easy to just pick the whole thing up, the stand, iPad and all, and take it wherever she wants. It has rubber feet, so it doesn’t slide around on a table, desk, or any other surface. She can even use it on her lap if she chooses to! This thing is awesome! Perfect! Well, almost. The only thing at all that could be even better is, that because she has an Otterbox Defender case on her iPad, this stand just about hangs onto it. This case is fairly slim, but it still adds a bit of thickness to her iPad. So the only thing that could make this stand even better than perfect, is if it’s gripping arms were ever so slightly wider, in order to hold iPads with cases like this one a bit easier. A sixteenth of an inch wider would be just fine. But other that that, this stand is 99.9% Perfect! Read more
