I know I just used some common sense yesterday, but I need to call upon my ebola-riddled powers once again: I DO NOT. NEED. AN IPAD!
I am a 9th level gadget whore, and it slays me there’s a cool new toy out there that I don’t need. Not needing something has never stopped me before – let’s stack all my portable internet devices on top of one another and see how deep the rabbit hole goes – but I know with each throbbing cognitive bone in my body that buying an iPad would be a stupid move the likes of which I haven’t done since that time I convinced myself I truly did have a need for two laptops, a netbook, and an XO (turns out I didn’t – who knew?).
Still, the lure of shiny and new is hard to resist. I MUST resist, though. To strengthen my resolve, here are some excellent reasons why I don’t need a goddamn iPad:
- I just – like, 7 days ago – bought an iMac and it is gorgeous if not portable
- I love my iPhone and it would be very very sad if I suddenly started cheating on it
- I’m enticed by the $499 price point – that’s only an hour or two of whoring, tops – but to get the balls-out device I want (go big or go home) and all the accessories, I’m looking at a bill of $1128.60 (more, if there’s an environmental levy)
- iPhone apps are one or two dollars; iPad apps start at $5
- Ed would probably want a divorce and take up with a boring version of me
- I’m going on vacation in a week and need money for fun vacation times
- No camera
- Cannot be comfortably stored in my bra for safe keeping
- Will not make me any sexier
- I’ve already HAD a tablet PC and it didn’t do much for me
- Things I currently own that can do what the iPad does, but better: Macbook, iPhone, iPod Touch, 17” HP laptop, iMac, Dell laptop, PSP, Nintendo DSi, EEE PC plus my work laptop
NO IPAD. BAD KIMLI.
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Funny. You have more reasons than I do not to need an iPad! /SusanG.
“I’m enticed by the $499 price point – that’s only an hour or two of whoring, tops”
Wow, you charge way more than I do.
But all the cool kids have one!
I am also afflicted with the affinity towards being a gadget whore. I am also afflicted with not having enough money to give in to the gadget whoreness. So I’m usually forced to wait until its not superawesomefun new technology anymore.
And given the rule of first-gen Apple hardware (i.e. never buy it), it’s probably better to wait until the next iPad comes out anyways. You can always go play with the display models in the Apple store if you get a craving.
check out this blog post:
http://gawker.com/5539717/steve-jobs-offers-world-freedom-from-porn
which I found through this post:
http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/05/new-podcast-saucy-apples-porn-problem-and-a-mac-geek-sex-guide.html
We can be iPadless TOGETHER. Remember, they’re not early adopters, they’ve paid to be beta testers.
I’ll tell you how much my *FREE* iPad sucks, if it’ll make you feel better. (I won it in a contest this morning…wouldn’t get one otherwise)
I too am lured by it’s flashiness and slick marketing. Must.resist.the.pull.
Meh, iPad is ok… Had one before it was cool in Canada. Good pr0n and Plants vs. Zombies, thats about it.