I get the iPad3 craze [View all]
What I don't get is why emotions run so high either way on the subject. You can't do much of anything useful with an iPad, but then there are millions who don't do much of anything useful with their personal computers. If you're only going to consume content with a personal computer, you won't miss the capabilities the iPad lacks, and will appreciate that axing those capabilities streamlines the experience of consumption. Those who want to do something specific the iPad can't do will see it as useless and find it unimaginable that anyone would ever buy one.
Odds are many iPad buyers have devices on hand that can do all the tablet can and more, or consume content at much higher fidelity, but it costs them too many pains to switch between devices, lack the content while on the go, or to miss out on the latest when others have it and are speaking of it constantly.
Millions more people lay out similar sums for similar fads and conveniences than will ever buy an iPad, so I don't really see how battle lines would ever get drawn in this specific case. Marketing and hype are obnoxious, and Apple gets a lot of free press on top of their advertising, maybe?
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