Will I get an iPad?
No.
Perhaps you’re perplexed, begging to ask me “but why not?” And I shall say this: It doesn’t replace or consolidate any gadget I already own. It’s not great at creating content. And it doesn’t multitask (make me coffee.) So be gone, pad of Apple!
TIME magazine summed it up as such: “It mutes you, turns you back into a passive consumer of other people’s masterpieces.” I’m already on that dangerous path with this infrequently updated blog.
What do others say?
- Cory Doctorow: Why I won’t buy an iPad and think you shouldn’t either
- Danny O’Brien: CD-ROMs and iPads
- B. Imei Hsu: Why you don’t want an iPad
- Charlie Brooker: I hate Macs
Yet we all know that I’m a sucker for these things (see Nook.) As antidote, I’m watching the following video on eternal repeat.
Full disclosure: I own several Apple products.
April 5, 2010
14 responses to Will I get an iPad?
But your Mom likes it…
I am already thinking of what I can sell to get one…seems to consolidate my digital frame and ebook reader. We will see. Maybe I am just getting sucked in.
I don’t know, it’s pretty cool. Better than my kindle, and I bet better than your nook. Kindle app already on there, and I hear that B&N has one one the way. I say, get pretentious and get one right away…BTW where’s that PJ Star app?
Believe me, I’ve tried getting our product onto iPhones… the closest I’ve been allowed to do is pjstar.mobi
Oh yeah, and you could cut the spine off all those unread books, scan them and put them on the iPad. How cool is a library of unread books that you can carry with you everywhere? I bet that thing could hold at least 5,000 books scanned as PDFs.
You know what my big problem is with eReaders and iPads? The cost. Not of the device, mind you, but of the content. In newspapers, we’re taught that enormous amounts of money are spent on printing and delivering the product each morning. Why should an electronic version of a book cost only 20% less than the paperback equivalent? Hence why I returned my Nook.
hadn’t seen that Time quote – says what’s been on my mind since Saturday. would say more but I’m on my iPad.
Laura, if anyone is to convince me, it might be you.
I thought all photo-type people were suckers for anything Apple. I admire your discernment, Adam.
The Kim Komando radio show was funny as hell Saturday. She managed to get an iPad through a special arrangement with Best Buy a couple hours before her show began. She kept saying throughout the show that she wanted to give listeners an impression, but the iPad just kept “thinking” and wouldn’t let her do anything.
She owns a Mac or two, but she loves to tweak Apple over the iPhone’s slavery to the AT&T network. She says she can be driving in the middle of Phoenix and has no connectivity. “No bars in more places.”
That Time quote stuck out to me, too, though the rest of that article praised the damn contraption.
Dude, I didn’t know you have a blog!
yeah but I don’t update it nearly enough
Pingback: Peas in an iPad