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"you'll surely use your oven instead of the microwave if you're not time-constrained"

So, if I'm time-constrained, you're thinking I'm going to type that email on my iPad? Again, this is a bad analogy. I think people really do need tablets. They just don't need them when their desktop/laptop is in reach.

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Sorry, the comment is confusing: I'm referring to the fact that you prefer your computer when you're at it, and only prefer the iPad when not.

The preference for the microwave is only when you're time-constrained. Otherwise the oven is preferable because of the tastier results it produces.

He's making an abstraction not saying a Microwave represents a 1-to-1 relationship with an iPad

Thanks for clearing that up. I was starting to think my iPad was going to cook me dinner quickly. That is surely an item on the iPad 3 feature list.

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