Worth pointing out that I made this very point in my article a few days after the iPad was launched: http://danieltenner.com/posts/0015-ipad-an-apple-for-mom.h

Worth pointing out that I made this very point in my article a few days after the iPad was launched: http://danieltenner.com/posts/0015-ipad-an-apple-for-mom.html http://danieltenner.com/posts/0015-ipad-an-apple-for-mom.htm... The only question, in my my mind, is, what will these people do when their cheap old Dell finally clonks out? Right now, to use an iPad and iPhone effectively, it seems you still need some kind of base station. So when the old Dell gives up the ghost, will people buy another one? Pony up for an expensive Mac? Or simply decide that the iPad is good enough and they don’t want another laptop? Looks like people are now arriving at the same conclusion - I guess because the number of people who are happy to have an iPad and no device to plug it into has multiplied.