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Originally Posted by Xerxys
But what I am trying to get across is ... would YOU buy this? How many newspaper purchases and shuffling of to the computer desk to look up info would you rather endure rather than getting a larger screen cell phone? Because that's what this is short of making phone calls. Doesn't your iPhone or HTC do the same things the iPad does?
I must be missing something but I think this is purely a novelty device.
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I don't own a smartphone and I don't want an iphone because of AT&T contracts. I left them and don't want to go back just because of a piece of hardware. I'm not a mac fanboi, and only have a mac in my house for video editing and I don't use it at all, the wife does. It was bought for 100% video editing.
I can tell you that it's annoying to schlep over to the desktop behind the sofa when watching TV and wanting to look something up, send a quick email, etc. My laptop was conveniently placed by the sofa, but it was cumbersome to open, turn on, and then put back. Why put back? Because I'd always inadvertently get distracted and move onto something else. Also, my full desktop screams work or play video games.
What an iPhone or an HTC does not have is screen real estate. Now understand this, a young college or fresh out of college person doesn't have ALL the things that a household does. Many things do multifunctions because of the space limitations of a dorm room.
A household does not have that limitation, and it also usually doesn't have the crucial and most critical limitation, disposable income.
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