Le sigh.

I originally wrote these as a set of Facebook status updates, but figure I will post them here for a wider audience.

If you can’t figure out who the iPad is targeted at, or who it might become truly useful for, that’s fine! Keep buying your Macbooks and your iPhones. It’s not like those products are going anywhere. Consider that the range of opinions represented in the tech news media (gadget blogs etc) is a very thin slice of the pie. To put this in perspective: A large portion of our country is still on dial-up. So while you, the top 2% in terms of technological knowledge/access, “want a tablet that runs full OS X”, the majority of people don’t care. They just want something that’s simple, elegant, and impossible to mess up. As much as it pains me to call AT&T’s 3G network “broadband”, consider that for many people, the 3G iPad will be their first broadband device. Ever. Some people really just want to email and surf the web, and $15/mo is a pricepoint that dial-up users accustomed to $10/mo can live with.


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