Why I will buy an iPad, and think you should too

I switched and just love my MacBook. I love my Iphone and will most likely love my iPad. There is something nice and easy about Apple.

On the other hand... I am constantly fixing my wife's work laptop from the latest download or muck-up. While I like Windows 7 a lot I still see some problems on occasion. It is still intrusive in some respects even though we were told it would be less. I like Windows products just not as much as I like my Apple products now.

I used to have crap-loads of music. Plastic, disc's, tapes - you name it. As far as I am concerned give me a cloud - a place to store them - hell I will even pay a couple bucks a month for a subscription service. It beats the hell out of storing and conversion any-day.

The iPad while not in it's finished form is a step in the right direction. Computing will become more and more mobile. I for one don't need to have a different computer for every need. Laptops were almost there but not enough. I see the iPad as a definite beginning. The old luddites better get over it. You eventually won't be building your desktops. Not when you can buy a functional iPad for 499. I gave that up years ago. Now I just program.

Haterz, Scorners, Scoffers should do a gut check and find out where they stand in the Five Stages of iPad Induced Grief.

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the biggest issue I have with Cory and his anti-DRM is that he's putting the hate on the wrong folks.

Apple doesn't do DRM just to tie products to their stuff. They do it because the content producers demand it. And Apple doesn't have the leverage to say no. With music they could say 'sure you can up the price, if you drop DRM' and win. They don't have that with video etc yet.

Just like they don't delay tv show and movie releases cause they want to. Showtime is the one holding back their stuff. The studios are the ones making them wait 2 weeks to put up a new movie and 2 more after that to rent it. and they are the ones wanting the ties to one set of devices, to make it harder to take those clean pretty copies and sent them off to limewire, bittorrent etc.

A lot of people keep using the "just a big iPhone" line to slander the iPad but it makes me wonder why you never hear that line when they put out bigger and bigger iMacs. "I'm not buying the 27in iMac it's just a big 17in iMac"

Ridiculous. If you don't want to buy an iPad then don't buy an iPad it's that simple - now shut up and let people who do want to buy an iPad buy one in peace.

I guess I am one of the "old geezers" some are mentioning. First computer was a Vic-20; second was a Compaq "portable" in 1983 ($3500.00!). Wrote stuff in Basic, D-Base...ran my business using Lotus for a decade. No internet. No music. No email. Just the old DOS prompt.

I wish I could have a nickle for every hour I have spent over the years for the time spent tweaking my machines & software to get them to do what I want them to do. Time better used in other ways...

I believe the iPad to be a truely game changing and visionary product. It's about the interface, stupid! :) If, like me now-a-days, you are more of a content consumer than a content creator, than the tablet is a very attractive alternative to a laptop. I still do CAD and Photoshop (for pleasure, not work), but for everything else the iPad will be superior in every way to a laptop.

I don't understand the "tinker arguement", and I read yesterday's article. I'd argue many more people are tinkering with the iPhone and ipad by learning how to make them do what they want through software. This is huge IMO. Gone are the days when you can build a general purpose computer from parts from radio shack, unless you refer to "building a desktop" which isn't tinkering like it was in the old days.

What is tinkering today then? Overclocking? Upgrading RAM? It doesn't seem relavent to me as a strength or weakness of a device of today because things are so powerful. Maybe I'm just getting older, but I don't want to take apart my iPhone to squeeze out some more clock cycles. I have written apps for the phone, and that has been very rewarding in many ways. I can make the phone do just about anything I want without ever cracking it open.

I just want it to turn on like a Truck. My mom wants it to turn it on like a TV. We are not dumb, just not really interested in how it works, just that it works. I am glad there are folks that care, just as there are folks that are glad I care about what I do.

My sister routinely asks me for all sorts of advice on which computer to buy, and not once in the last 20 years has she ever even come close to what I recommended; therefor, when she (inevitably) rings for tech support, I say "What did I tell you to buy, and what did you buy? Do they have anything in common? No, I thought not. Sorry, can't help you. Why? Because you bought a piece of shit."

THIS IS NOT A PC!

Why people don't get it?

There's a lot of code inside your car too. And you may know a lot about mechanics and programming.
But you can't touch most of what under the hood of a modern car today without voiding your warranty. You have to take it to the offical dealer or repair shop to do even the simpler things.
I guess Cory may use the public transport or have a really old car if he wants to do things himself.
But is he complaining about his car? or his washing machine? his TV set (yeah, that has code inside too).
Yeah, we lived the happy dawning of the PC era, but those days are long gone. In those days, the days of Apple II+, one person could desing a whole PC. Today you need a team of engineers and very complicated software just to design the main processor. Machines now are complicated.
And home appliances (and the iPad is one) are getting, internally, more complicated too. Mobile phones, cars, washing machines... you name it. All have code, code you don't need to deal with.
You want to fiddle with code and PC parts? Buy a PC, not an iPad. An iPad is NOT a PC. Is just an entertainment appliance. A rather complicated one, but an appliance after all.
Cory is just confused, as lots of the old PC guys are...

Buying a first Generation Apple product is a no go for me.
It's not that's the product is bad, but I always have the feeling that Apple is holding back features on purpose. (i.e. you will want to buy the next iPad)

Of course Apple has designed the iPad in such a way, that it will take you a bit to notice this features missing, but you eventually will (and buy this time the iPad II will be here). And if you didn't notice it up to now, the 16/32/64 GB with/without 3G are there for a very obvious reason (especially the 16GB without 3G, which sole purpose is to hook up as much people as possible)

For me it's waiting till more Tablets (Including the iPad II) are release.
And only then will I buy one (which may as well be an iPad II, if it get's the improvements I need, or actually HTML5 is used a bit more by then :P)