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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
And how many of the folks getting iPads are using it for that function? Judging by the people you see in lines to pick them up and the folks I know who have them, the VAST majority like them because they are handy to look stuff up quickly when they are watching TV or for watching/playing while they are commuting.
While you may have some very good use cases for it in your everyday life (many of which still sound suspiciously like consumption of data; just a different type of data and different reason for consumption) up to this point your use cases are not the driving factor in the adoption of these devices. In time perhaps they will be, but up to this point I haven't seen it.
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I see entire segments of the computer using public that are glued to their iPads because its the first time they've been productive with computers in their life - because they were awful at using computers to begin with. Maybe people don't set out to get an iPad as a productivity tool, but once they start, the results are shocking in terms of how diverse their usage patterns begin to be.
I think we're talking at cross-terms though. I'm thinking about productivity, I think you're talking more about content creation. An iPad in the hands of someone who previously was computer challenged can become a monster productivity tool. Those people were never going to be big content producers regardless though - really, very few people are even in downtown office towers.