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The problem is gadgets create "needs" that otherwise would not exist, being they really needed and useful or not. So those new needs are artificial.. self mushrooming.. (Facebook is another example of this - instead of really socialising, (some) people are sitting by computers in their rooms, in their virtual world. Is this good? Maybe.. but not for me.).
From the "positive" side this can be described as " creating new opportunities" as you mentioned (in different words).
Someone earlier said " I want it but I do not need it" and to me this tells all about this and similar gadgets and services.
As I said earlier, if I need something like this, I would rather go for a tablet PC (BTW, I have one, 15 years old Fujitsu Stylistic 2000, W'95, it even has hand writing recognition software , running in parallel with on-screen keypad). It is very slow of course.. because it has only 100MHz pentium inside.. but I can control it the way I know how.. I can even write my own applications of course (and you can't do it on iPad.. nobody except Apple can.. ).. So iPad is actually nothing new... apart from proprietary software. And lack of user ability to do anything with it without explicit Steve Jobs's permission.. if and when he is in good mood.
No thanks.
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