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Originally Posted by graycyn
Not necessarily. A friend who already had a Kindle Keyboard e-ink and an iPhone got a Kindle Fire for Xmas. She told me she hasn't really figured out a great use for it yet. She reads every night. Listens to audio books while she works.
It may just take her time, or maybe it's just not her kind of device.
If someone had given me one, I'd probably have sold it and put the money towards something I really wanted. The tablet I want will have higher resolution. Buying the Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 taught me that even a few more pixels per inch makes a difference as to how comfortably my eyes (which hate LCD) can use a tablet device.
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I am sort of in that boat. I got an iPad 2 last May and I've used it a lot since then. However, since I got my nook ST my iPad use has plummeted. Before I was using my ipad to do a lot of reading, now I use my nook ST. I still use my ipad a fair amount, but depending on the day I might only use it for 10 minutes in the evenings to do a few words with friends moves, check my email, check a couple of app review webpages to see what new might have come out in the last 24hrs and see if there are updates to any of my apps.
Occasionally I'll play a game on it for an hour or two or watch a movie or do some other websurfing. However, at work I am sitting in a cube with internet access 8 1/2hrs a day (minus meetings) so I pretty much do all of the surfing I care to during most work days and I prefer to spend my free time reading mostly.
Enter in two (almost 3) very young children and I don't have a lot of free time. I probably went from 15hrs a week on my ipad to 2-3hrs a week now and it'll probably drop again once I get a smart phone/iphone. Now if I did have a lot more free time I'd probably spend a lot more of it on my ipad playing games and watching movies, but I just don't have the time.
So I can see how some people might get a device and not figure out a real use for it, especially a tablet. If you already have an ereader and like to read, the tablet is unlikely to surplant that (and might not even really supplement it). If you don't watch a lot of movies on the go, a tab isn't going to add anything, unless you only have 1 TV and your sig other is monopolizing it (that happens to me sometimes, but we have 2 TVs, I just like keeping her company in the same room, so I'll watch a movie on my ipad with headphones on while she watches something on the TV). laptops let alone full PCs are much better content creation devices, so if you have one of those you aren't likely to use a tab much for that sort of thing. Web browing might be more convenient on a tab depending on what/how you are doing it. That leaves mostly casual gaming that benifits from touch input and wanting to recline on a couch for some of the above activities.
That and for "anywhere" computing.