They'll still need that spyware-ridden computer to use the iPad.
Re:IPad Hype Souring?
by aaronbrethorst on Saturday February 06, 2010 @10:54PM
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Only once in a blue moon. And I'd rather walk my mom through the process of: "plug your iPad into the USB cable sitting on the desk. Now, come back in 10 minutes once it's done sync'ing." instead of the normal remote maintenance I have to do.
Do you expect to have a different experience?
In other words, once the iPad became fact and was no longer subject to early adopters' whims and flights of fancy, less of them wanted to buy it. I can just imagine a hypothetical early adopter angrily declaring 'What do you mean Steve Jobs isn't including a free rhino with every purchase? That's ridiculous, and now I won't buy one!'
I have every intention of buying an iPad as soon as possible in order to develop for it.
I have every intention of buying one for my mom for her birthday (at the end of April) so I can get her off her aging Windows XP computer.
A good friend of mine and her sister are planning on buying one for their 70 year old father.
Bear in mind, these are only a handful of anecdotes, but can you (as an HN reader) honestly say that you would rather support your baby boomer parents on their spyware-ridden Windows XP computer, or would you rather buy them a $400 braindead simple internet access device that can't get viruses or spyware?
edit: oops, typo.