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This debate ("Oh, you don't have the iPad experience." "Oh yes I do.") assumes that the iPad experience is what people want.
I'm not interested in "enjoying" the iPad experience, actually. I tried it and hated it. I don't like iOS, I don't like Apple's hardware, I don't like iTunes or the iPod, I don't like Steve Jobs, I don't like their ad platform, I don't like their business model, I don't like Apple as a company--I don't care if a tablet can give me the "iPad experience." I am looking forward to the Amazon experience, or the Android experience, or some other OS. (Actually, I'd love the Windows 8 UI on a tablet when it's available.) I want a tablet that works for me the way I want it to work for me--let me get stuff done and get back to life.
In the local coffeehouses, when folks use their iPads, I like to watch them when they're done. They all look up and take out their earbuds and look around with a bewildered, just-waking-up expression, like they are confused by the world and they are wondering how much has happened while they've been isolated in the black hole that is the iPad experience. I don't want that.
But that's me.
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