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Originally Posted by patrickt
Sheikspeare: I don't usually need a reason to not buy something. I don't need a reason to not spend the money. Doing nothing, the null alternative, is reasonable. Inertia rules. I need a reason to get something or spend the money and not a reason not to. So, before I got an IPad I'd need a reason to get one.
I thoroughly enjoy my Lenovo laptop and my Kindle is even better. I have no need to buy something to establish that I'm cool, or not. So, no reason to think about why I shouldn't buy an IPad.
But, then, why should I buy an IPad. Let's see. I could suddenly join the club of really, really cool people. Two days ago my neighbor came over and I answered my door carrying my KindleDX. "Oh, oh, you got an IPad. Isn't it wonderful? Don't you just love it? Oh, oh, I really want one."
"It's a Kindle eBook reader."
"Oh. Never mind." I think I'll pass on joining the club. I realize Apple is the way and Jobs is the one true prophet, also known as the toymaker, but it's just my nature to reject that sort of thing.
But, I can watch movies or listen to music or surf the net or all sorts of really, really cool things with my IPad. Just like my Lenovo laptop. I could have put an app on my laptop, like I could with an IPad, and read books on my laptop.
I don't work now so I would normally carry my Kindle and not my laptop but occasionally I carry both. I'm 69-years old, never was a jock, walk almost every where I go on a daily basis, and carry both is not a problem for me.
Okay, thought about it and I have absolutely no reason to buy an IPad.
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I'm not sure I get your first point. In order to decide if you might need a new product, you have to decide if it has anything to offer. So the decision-making process with the iPad could go something along the following lines: can it perform the functions of a laptop/ebook reader in some better way? Does it open up better reading possibilities? I was not persuaded. Hence I saw no need to get one.
Onto your second point: I agree that coolness is a major factor in buying the iPad. But I'm detecting that there also exists a kind of inverted snobbery. In other words, "I'm too cool to have an iPad. I'm a Kindle guy ... you wouldn't understand .... you iPAD wielding Neanderthal, scumbag!"