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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Hey, if your not interested or don't want to buy one, I don't have a problem with that. Why do some people have a problem with others being interested and perhaps wanting to get one?
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For me, it's that I want to see people buying it for the right reasons. The iPad has the potential to change some of the existing markets, perhaps denying them to smaller companies producing products that may be more appropriate. The one we've discussed a lot here, of course, being ebooks, but debates are also in progress over web-browsing, watching videos, using office applications, interfacing with other hardware such as printers and flash drives, etc.
This is a good thing. The opposing views need to be stated so that awareness of the limitations does leak out.
Where a consumer has a set of needs that are fulfilled by the iPad, that's great. The iPad deserves to be a success if it does those things well. But let's keep awareness alive of the things that other products do better, so that consumers with specific needs can see past the massive marketing from Apple to their other choices.
Graham