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Originally Posted by Bojan
I bet majority of people are buying this only because it is a beautiful toy, knowing nothing about how things work inside
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Do they remotely need to? There are very FEW people who know how computers, cars, phones, TV's and elevators work. Does this, or should this, prevent normal people from using these? Does it make them any less useful? Come on. Please..
I'm just wondering where you've seen Apple tell the world that the iPad is, or was, conceived to be a new-fangled laptop replacement. I think this is where your own confusion is stemming from. It is designed, beautifully, within its limitations and makes no effort or promise to fulfil what
you assume it must in order to be useful. So why judge it on those perceptions?
Its a device designed to consume content - which it does most admirably. It fills a niche, and has never been promised to do anything else. It does not WANT to be a laptop or desktop. Don't compare it to one - simple...
As Humayun said, it's a blackbox technology that does exactly as it promises. If you want a machine for other duties - go for those instead. Why deride this machine because you have no use for it? It doesn't make sense!