3 ms·

But many normal people would rather get an easy to use laptop instead, or a "laptopised" dockable ipad Based on my empirical experience since my iPad was deliv

But many normal people would rather get an easy to use laptop instead, or a "laptopised" dockable ipad Based on my empirical experience since my iPad was delivered April 3, most "normal" people want an iPad but are having trouble justifying the expense. I think iPads will be the gift this Christmas. About 80% of my friends are planning to get one then.

watty 16y ago
80% of your friends are planning on getting an iPad? Holy crap, what's your demographic (if you don't mind)?
- stcredzero 16y ago
  Demographic? Figure out the cohort! (Specific subgroup)
- briancooley 16y ago
  Well, if you don't mind pedantry, here goes. It's actually 80% of relatively close friends on a family unit basis, so it's 4 iPads out of 10 friends/5 couples that I see on a routine basis. That's an incomplete sampling of my universe of friends. A lot of my casual friends - the ones I haven't seen since February or earlier - I don't know one way or another, but I'd guess the rate would be lower among them. The data's also tainted, since most of them had the iPad in hand when they made the statement. Anyway, what I really was trying to focus on is that if they purchase it, it will likely be at Christmas and as a gift. As far as demographics, if you mean income, I don't really know. I'd guess $100K-$120K yearly income per family. Upper middle class, I guess. Folks that make enough money that their wives stay home with the kids. Not hurting for money, but $500 is still more than pocket change.
viraptor 16y ago
That's what bothers me really. It will be a gift; people want it, but are having problems to justify it. I don't really have problem with people buying it, but this trend is a bit dangerous from the global perspective... Apple is good at releasing limited functionality devices, but where's the minimum limit with that? If it's good, people will buy it anyways, because people like "having" stuff - it's hard to say how many specific devices are enough 4? 5? How much limited functionality electronic waste do we have to produce? How much money do we want to spend on N polished devices instead of 1 general device, which will be always cheaper than N in reality. Edit: Almost forgot - some universities are already testing iPads as "give away to students" devices... Seriously, that's a path to another "Hand in as .doc file", only a thousand times more dangerous. We've already got game consoles, handheld games, laptops, smart phones, music players, video players, etc. all basically targeted at the same general group of people. I'm waiting for the second wave of generalised devices now - I want only 2 of them: pocket player / communicator / game (apart from games, my N900 does a good job here for now), dockable general laptop.
- lasthemy1 16y ago
  If you started looking at kitchen appliances I think your head might explode.
  - viraptor 16y ago
    Actually I was thinking about them while writing this... it's one of the things that annoy me. I'm actively trying to reduce stuff by not having a 1000 mixers and a glass of each kind. I even use an integrated spoon/fork/knife thing daily (and actually enjoy it).
    - gridspy 16y ago
      Context sensitive joke from Wall-E : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVFoDYmTyM8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVFoDYmTyM8 :)
axod 16y ago
I was going to get one the other week. But then got a Nexus One and saw how open and usable Android is. The iPad is just so 'meh'. It's not got a holographic projection screen. It hasn't got flexible rollout OLED screen. It's just a large iPod touch :/ There's nothing really new and 'wow' about it. If I did get one, the kids would use it to do painting on for a bit, then it'd get stuck up on a shelf gathering dust.

watty 16y ago

80% of your friends are planning on getting an iPad? Holy crap, what's your demographic (if you don't mind)?

stcredzero 16y ago
Demographic? Figure out the cohort! (Specific subgroup)
briancooley 16y ago
Well, if you don't mind pedantry, here goes. It's actually 80% of relatively close friends on a family unit basis, so it's 4 iPads out of 10 friends/5 couples that I see on a routine basis. That's an incomplete sampling of my universe of friends. A lot of my casual friends - the ones I haven't seen since February or earlier - I don't know one way or another, but I'd guess the rate would be lower among them. The data's also tainted, since most of them had the iPad in hand when they made the statement. Anyway, what I really was trying to focus on is that if they purchase it, it will likely be at Christmas and as a gift. As far as demographics, if you mean income, I don't really know. I'd guess $100K-$120K yearly income per family. Upper middle class, I guess. Folks that make enough money that their wives stay home with the kids. Not hurting for money, but $500 is still more than pocket change.

viraptor 16y ago

That's what bothers me really. It will be a gift; people want it, but are having problems to justify it. I don't really have problem with people buying it, but this trend is a bit dangerous from the global perspective... Apple is good at releasing limited functionality devices, but where's the minimum limit with that? If it's good, people will buy it anyways, because people like "having" stuff - it's hard to say how many specific devices are enough 4? 5? How much limited functionality electronic waste do we have to produce? How much money do we want to spend on N polished devices instead of 1 general device, which will be always cheaper than N in reality. Edit: Almost forgot - some universities are already testing iPads as "give away to students" devices... Seriously, that's a path to another "Hand in as .doc file", only a thousand times more dangerous. We've already got game consoles, handheld games, laptops, smart phones, music players, video players, etc. all basically targeted at the same general group of people. I'm waiting for the second wave of generalised devices now - I want only 2 of them: pocket player / communicator / game (apart from games, my N900 does a good job here for now), dockable general laptop.

lasthemy1 16y ago
If you started looking at kitchen appliances I think your head might explode.
- viraptor 16y ago
  Actually I was thinking about them while writing this... it's one of the things that annoy me. I'm actively trying to reduce stuff by not having a 1000 mixers and a glass of each kind. I even use an integrated spoon/fork/knife thing daily (and actually enjoy it).
  - gridspy 16y ago
    Context sensitive joke from Wall-E : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVFoDYmTyM8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVFoDYmTyM8 :)

axod 16y ago

I was going to get one the other week. But then got a Nexus One and saw how open and usable Android is. The iPad is just so 'meh'. It's not got a holographic projection screen. It hasn't got flexible rollout OLED screen. It's just a large iPod touch :/ There's nothing really new and 'wow' about it. If I did get one, the kids would use it to do painting on for a bit, then it'd get stuck up on a shelf gathering dust.