Posted on 03/31/2011 7:36:01 PM PDT by harpu
That's right in line with my original observations. If it's purely for entertainment, you can probably replace a laptop with an iPad. If it's for work, not likely.
$2000 in thirty year? I’ll take the Ipad now thanks.
I actually owned one of those. I taught myself how to drive a manual transmission with that car in the early '80s.
A 78 Datsun B210 with 642,000 miles on it?
I’ll have some of whatever you’ve been drinking.
Toy. Buy it, I own the stock!
Duhhh...the story has nothing to do with (regarding its value or its worth to its user) the iPad other than using it as an example because it’s ‘hot’!
AMEN
Me, too. Even if inflation stays the way it has for the past 30 years, $2000 thirty years from now will equal $650 today. Whoopee. That'll get you a nice night out on the town in NYC...after living without for 30 years.
Agree for the most part, but cell phones save lives.
If you buy the WSJ at the newsstand it would cost $595 a
year. You need to buy a new one every week. It cost $119 a year with a subscription but must own or rent a house to have it delivered to. Houses are very expensive. So if you want to retire rich. If you skip buying the WSJ and live on the streets you can afford an iPad. That is if I understand. His logic. Maybe this is why I don’t buy starbucks coffee?
My brother is one of the evil rich, selling software for a mobile tech company. He uses his iPad all the time for business presentations. It can’t replace a laptop if you really need a laptop. There are a lot of people that have laptops than don’t really need them however. i think most of the sailors that worked for me didn’t really need a laptop. They may need one now because so many Navy sites require CAC cards, but if you are just surfing the net and managing your media it is a nice piece of gear.
I bought my son a Kindle for Christmas. He’s a “glow-worm bubble-head”. He loves to read and it’s perfect. Holds a ton of books, last weeks on a charge, and doesn’t take up much of the half a cubic foot of personal storage space you’re alloted on a sub.
That’s funny I had a friend who taught me to drive a stick in a blue B210 in the early 80’s. I managed to get it stuck in a ditch. His parents weren’t happy. My friend Chip passed away last year. I miss him.
Thank you Lazlo! Couldn’t have put it better.
Nearly every person I know who has an iPhone, iTouch or iPad has them in their hands all the time.
I’ll admit - I probably wouldn’t buy one, but if I can win one, I won’t turn it down. :-)
ok, I’ll ask, what’s a glow-worm bubble-head???
Now, I can't say I would have wanted to drive it coast to coast.
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