IPad Hype Souring?

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4 points·joe_the_user··4 comments

FTA:"The more people know about the iPad, the less they want to buy one, according to a study released Friday. But, are we expecting too much?"

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.

They'll still need that spyware-ridden computer to use the iPad.

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?

Is anyone else tired of pcworld acting as an astroturfing proxy for M$? I've noticed over and over in their sequences of (multiple) stories that they ALL start out slightly positive and then follow-on stories turn negative... as if they only wanted to appear thoughtful and neutral but actually purposefully lead to sour conclusions.

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