Don’t get me wrong, ct, I applaud anyone who wants to go about their life with a device attached to them. Call me old fashioned, but when I’m away from home, I don’t expect to have the comforts therein. I have a very basic cell phone that I use for emergencies or calling the little lady about dinner. Otherwise, I don’t use the phone much and prefer a home phone for audible fidelity.
And that always on feature out in the world requires cellular tower connectivity or a wi-fi hotspot, two things that would go tango-uniform in the event of a catastrophe (not that my home rig would be doing any good in that situation).
I’m in the IT world and pay very close attention to security, and I would prefer to have a smaller security footprint overall than to have a device that can entertain me when I’m out. I have a Kindle for reading on long trips and an iPod Classic for my music. Far as I’m concerned, that’s all I ever see myself needing, but then again everyone used to say, “We’ll never need more than 512K(yes, Kb) of RAM!”
To each their own.
For those who want to walk away from technology with little more than “just a phone”, or are concerned about security footprints etc., go for it. No tablet for you.
For those who want connectivity and functionality anytime anywhere always-on always-connected, get an iPad - it’s a lot of capability in a very slim & light game-changing format.
And I’m from the era of “a gen 1 IBM PC! awesome! let’s see what I can do with 16KB RAM and cassette tape storage!”. I’m thinking of having my iPad surgically implanted.