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Originally Posted by stonetools
And if I said " Everyone wants a tablet" you would have a point. What I actually said was " Lots of consumers" You're beating the wrong strawman.  .
My point is that the tablet is aimed at the consumer who doesn't want to fiddle with with any of that power user stuff : they just want to consume, communicate and create simple stuff. And they are the overwhelming majority of consumers.
If you look at the App Store, there's an app for just about everything that kind of consumer wants to do, and they can instal it without the need for a CD , a DVD, flash drive, or any worries about malware. THe huge success of the iPad proves that for lots of consumers that walled-garden limited, post-PC experience is just fine for them- which flummoxes those who "just don't get it" when they can do the same things with a netbook running Linux. |
So which is it: "lots of consumers", or "the overwhelming majority of consumers"? Those are two very different things. How many iPad consumers are there? Estimated figures are around 60-70 million, cumulative. How many of those 60-70 mil. aren't unique purchasers, but are existing iPad users upgrading to a newer model? Now how many "computer" purchasers are there? Claiming that "people need computers, not just iPads" is not a strawman. 60-70 million people is not the overhwelming majority of consumers.
Just because "a whole bunch" of users have chosen to buy an iPad doesn't mean they view it as the sum total of everything they want in a device. How many compromised? I did. I shelled out the money for a brand new 4G 64GB model. And I love it. But it has serious shortcomings. Yes, I realize we vote with our dollars, and that, by purchasing an iPad, I am sending a signal to Apple that their current model (no SD, no USB) is acceptable. But I'm not happy about it. And I'm not giving up my laptop or desktop. I happen to like gadgets, so having multiple devices is not a bad thing. But some other people would prefer to limit the number of devices they have, and the iPad often cannot fulfill all of their needs.