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Originally Posted by jibril
Anyway, I hope the iPad is good. Rather than put up with another notebook I'll have to babysit, this is what I'm getting my old man. All he wants to do is surf, research, and email anyway. I want less devices and people to handhold.
Once it's out, will update how it is as an e-reader. If it's any good, maybe I'll buy one for myself too.
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What a brilliant idea! There is nothing to crash, nothing to accidentally delete, no viruses to worry about etc. It is also a beautiful looking gadget that is easy and fun to learn.
I'm in Japan and my grandma was in South Africa. She was always amazed that I could make hours of international phone calls (with Skype) 'over the computer', send and receive faxes from email -I set up a local number attached to my email so that she could fax me at the cost of a local call.
She was amazed that I could send her flowers (with a personal card and message) regularly to her doorstep 'all the way from overseas'
. Buy luxury groceries for her every now and again, or even clothes when she got too frail to go shopping (she would send me the order by fax, and get it the next day - magic) and tell her the exact time frame of delivery - local online shop... Make CD compilations for her, with her name etc. beautifully printed on the CD. Lots of other things too, like paying her bills online all the way from 'overseas'. Basically she thought I was some kind of Harry Potter.
Finally she wanted me to buy her a computer and 'come and visit for a week and teach her'...
If she had still been alive, I would have slept outside all night in lines, the day before iPad sales, hopped on a plane the next day and taken it to her! Without a doubt! Actually that was one of the first things I thought about when I saw the iPad launch, how darn
easy it would have been for grandma to 'learn' to use!
Hope you all don't mind my story... I miss her so much!