Message #271362

[Jas765]

Where I am, I'd almost say that the amount of iPads I have 'access' to (I don't own, but I know people that I could theoretically use theirs) It kind of ridiculous.
   My school got 8 iPad 1s to trial so see how well they work in a school situation (for the record, they were intended for seniors but it seems that the infants are the ones who use them the most), so we get to use them for stuff. Considering how dodgy our school's network is (You're lucky if you can log in within 10 minutes, and then even luckier if the internet works), it's nice to be able to just straight out use internet.
   Within about a month or two, my dad and brother have both gotten iPad 2s. My brother's a super computer-person (he just submitted an app to the Mac App Store, he knows his stuff) and this iPad is his first iOS device, which is amusing considering that I'm currently on my second iPod touch (4th gen 64GB, formerly 2nd gen 16GB, I still have and use both) and know the whole iOS economy a fair bit better than him (He's amazed and a bit upset that everything is either $1 or free with IAP and no-one really likes stuff if it's more than that (I don't really like it either, but I've learnt to accept it in the last 3 years)). He doesn't really want to have a lot of games on it, and wants to use it for more practical and technical things, including eventually making his own apps for it. My dad's also got one, and he uses it more as a personal computer than a technical slate. He has all of his work stuff on it, but also still has the games on it like Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja.
   At my Church too, there's heaps of people with iPads. You could literally make a pile of them. Most of them have iPhones as well, and then when you include others that just have iDevices in general, I would go so far as to say that more than half of us own at least one portable device made by Apple. Here more than anywhere else, It's increasingly obvious to me that it is possible to have an iPad (or tablet in general, I guess) dominated world. Considering how practical, portable and (uhh... think of another p-word) expedient (Close enough) iPads are, I have no problem in seeing a time where they are the norm for everyone, like how windows is today. iPads are definitely slowly taking over, and I'm actually not sure if I like it. Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against Apple at all (believe me, I'm at an iMac next to my iPod with my mum on a Mac Mini and my brother using his MacBook and iPad (Dad's using the Xbox... combo breaker'd!)), but I don't really like the idea of a society dominated by the one piece of technology. There's something good about having variety, something that can't be had if everyone has the same thing. I notice this at church a lot, I guess it was the same with iPhones but iPads are more dominant. Frankly, as long as fanboyism is kept out of it, I would rather have a world where everyone used different things but they all worked in a way so that they were compatible with each other. That way, the convenience of a tablet would be there but it wouldn't just be a place over-saturated of the one same square.

Wow, that's a lot of words. +1 internet if you read all of it. One more thing - If you still say that the iPad is a giant iPod touch, you've never used an iPad. Seriously, it's nothing like that.


tl;dr - iPads are taking over the world.