Apple’s iPad strictly business
Picking up some of the vibes from the Apple fanboy community you could be forgiven for believing that the reaction has been negative, mixed at best.
Apple’s latest innovation, the iPad, takes the ragingly successful company from the poster boy image of perfecting existing products and places them firmly in the realm of cashing in on a untapped market.
For me this is the reason, for the most part, that the usual avid repeat Apple consumers are taking a little step back and actually evaluating whether they need this product in their lounge.
Unlike the Macbooks, iPhones and iPods before it this new iPad is new, yes there are competitors but nothing like the competition faced with the aforementioned products. This leaves everyone on a level playing ground when deciding whether they need one. No doubt that the iPad is more of an expensive gadget to the tech savy crowd but to your average user it is quite simply a much easier way of doing 99% of things they already did on their personal computers and most cases doing so for much less pound sterling.
So the Apple lovers or fanboys if you like are alienated. They can master a Macbook or hack their iPhones to do anything that the iPad can do, faster and without extra expense, but they really wanted this. They want to be the cool kids when the iPad hits the shelves. They want to be the people recommend this to their parents and sighing when they ‘don’t get it’. Oh the laughs they used to have!
Unfortunately Apple are a business and they don’t care. If you want it, buy it. If you don’t, oh well, there are plenty who do.
