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Buying the new version--pretty much whatever it is--is almost a no-brainer. You had a good reply going up until this point, but here you make me question your

Buying the new version--pretty much whatever it is--is almost a no-brainer. You had a good reply going up until this point, but here you make me question your judgment. Even if it's true that a tablet -- a 1st generation iPad -- was an important innovation for you, it in no way follows that an upgrade from the 1st generation to the 2nd generation will justify laying out that much money again. One imagines that it's something along the lines of 80/20. You probably captured 80% of the possible utility with the 1G product (I suspect even more than that). If the 2G product has improvements bringing that to, say, 90% (adding 10 additional points), then it's only delivering 1/8 as much utility, and is thus far more expensive per unit of utility. It almost certainly does not make sense to buy the new one, precisely because you derive so much utility from the original.

cletus 16y ago
> you make me question your judgment Let me explain where I'm coming from: 1. The iPad was and is a discretionary purchase, a luxury. It is not something I personally need. YMMV; 2. It is something I use because I find it useful but, more to the point, I enjoy using it; and 3. With a certain nebulous budget for tech purchases the iPad has more than justified it's cost in terms of my own criteria; and 4. Apple being Apple, the upgrade is highly unlikely to be purely cosmetic. Sure if it's the same processor/RAM with the a slightly thinner design, there's no need for me to buy but I see the tablet market as being like PCs in the 90s: the pace of technology change is still huge. Compare the iPhone 4 to the 3GS in terms of display, CPU, etc. So I don't mean "no brainer" as "I (will) need the upgrade". Rather I'm fairly certain it'll be something I will want and can easily justifying buying, even considering the switching cost (cost of a new one - cost of selling my old one).

cletus 16y ago

> you make me question your judgment Let me explain where I'm coming from: 1. The iPad was and is a discretionary purchase, a luxury. It is not something I personally need. YMMV; 2. It is something I use because I find it useful but, more to the point, I enjoy using it; and 3. With a certain nebulous budget for tech purchases the iPad has more than justified it's cost in terms of my own criteria; and 4. Apple being Apple, the upgrade is highly unlikely to be purely cosmetic. Sure if it's the same processor/RAM with the a slightly thinner design, there's no need for me to buy but I see the tablet market as being like PCs in the 90s: the pace of technology change is still huge. Compare the iPhone 4 to the 3GS in terms of display, CPU, etc. So I don't mean "no brainer" as "I (will) need the upgrade". Rather I'm fairly certain it'll be something I will want and can easily justifying buying, even considering the switching cost (cost of a new one - cost of selling my old one).