Rarely has a technology product been launched with as much fanfare as Apple’s iPad that debuted this week. Chattanooga-area buyers are showing them around, displaying what the iPad can do.
If those same people can explain how it will revolutionize their lives, as the hype would have us believe, then they’re ahead of the game.
The iPad is something between a smart phone (you can’t make calls from the iPad) and bulkier laptops. The problem is that many consumers aren’t sure what to do with something in between.
Travelers who need even a moderate level of word processing and mobile telephone connectivity will have to carry three devices if they want to bring their iPad.
Early predictions that the iPad would create a go-anywhere revolution led to a sort of hipness that provoked desire.