That it isn’t compelling enough for a high school student who already has a Macintosh notebook and an iPhone.
I was reading iPad commentary when I again happened upon this iPad analysis by Robert Scoble’s 16 year old son, which I posted before. Last time I read it I was, like most Apple geeks, so enthralled with the prospects of the iPad that I couldn’t see the forest for the trees.
Not compeling enough for a student who already has a Mac and an iPhone!? When I was in high school I had a f***ing Trapper Keeper. I’m giddy about technology because I grew up at a time when we had technology, but most of it sucked. My Sony Walkman cassette player sucked. The batteries ran out in fifteen minutes and you had to carry around a bunch of tapes. My TI 994A sucked. You couldn’t do jack with that thing. My first cell phone, given to me by my work in 1998, sucked so bad I actually thought at the time “why the hell do they make me carry this goddamn stupid brick?”
Kids today have absolutely no idea how good they have it. Say what you will about the iPad but from my point of view it is soooo totally compelling. We just barely had the beginnings of the internet when I was in college, and nobody on campus had laptops or cell phones. I would have killed for an iPad or iPhone when I was 19.
And now I am officially a grumpy old man.
