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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@Hitch, have to respectfully disagree, at least in terms of what I see around my haunts.
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I see students using iPads and 'droid tablets to do assignments, write music, draw buildings etc, most days of the week. I also see people using them to do their jobs: mobile bankers visiting clients, real estate agents talking to buyers, supplier agents checking super market shelves, local govt workers photographing broken sidewalks, insurance workers assessing damage to cars, houses, infrastructure etc, utility workers checking power poles, fixing leaking water mains etc.
Seems to me almost everyone uses them to do their work, I've even seen restaurant waiters take orders on them, and concrete delivery truck drivers use them to bid for jobs.
Oh, and little kids playing games and doing other stuff. My neighbours six year old granddaughter wrote me a letter on her tablet a couple of weeks ago, which her mother copied and emailed to me. It wasn't typed - it was written/drawn using digital crayons.
David Hockney paints on his iPad, single edition prints sell for tens of thousands of dollars.
What you said re 'watching movies, playing games, reading social media, etc.' is certainly true of smart phone usage around here. But you forgot 'taking selfies and then spending time culling them' and 'rearranging their app icons' 
BR |
When I first got mine, I was curious--and so conducted an informal poll of everyone I met, clients, etc., who had one. My answers were very different than yours. {shrug}. Obviously, we see and hang out around different people.
I will say that in the last decade, seriously, I haven't seen a single person use an iPad at work. Perhaps it's a regional thing. Not one. I've seen people use iPhones, to take payments from me, but that's it.
Hitch