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Originally Posted by murraypaul
So people who buy iThings do so because they think it makes them cooler than others?
Whereas you seem to think that not buying them makes you clever than others?
I question the rationality of both.
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Even I, a person who runs miles to stay out of dead end arguments such as this, have to respond here.
You will see, if you look at my device list, an iPad listed.
When they first came out, I thought, "Hey, those are cool..." but that's about as far as it went. Last spring, my husband caught what I am now calling "tablet fever". We both did, to an extent. We researched, talked about, and read reviews, and researched some more - ad infinitum, ad nauseum. One evening, after a loooong day, my husband woke up from a nap and said, "I'm DREAMING about damned tablets. We're going to go buy an iPad." After making sure he wasn't still sleeping (Chris is notorious for being "meh" about Apple products), I happily went along.
As soon as he found out you can't connect an iPad to a PC/Mac with a USB cable and instantly access a folder structure, he was out of that game. The iPad became mine. I offered to let him return it, but he saw that I really was enjoying it so the next day, he went and got him an eminently hackable Android tablet, (which he has since sold).
The iPad is still hanging around - I actually USE it - for reading, recreation, and even some *gasp* schoolwork/productivity. It's not going to replace my desktop anytime soon, but it did replace my convertible netbook/tablet that ran Windows...
The point here? We didn't buy an iPad because we thought it would make us cool. Both of us are confirmed geeks, and to be quite honest, secure enough in our personalities to not care what too many people think of us.
We didn't NOT buy an iPad because that would make us even cooler. We basically got it out of curiosity and frustration, LOL, and then I just happened to like it.