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0 pointsgehsty6y ago0 comments

I don't think you can really say that the iPad has failed as a general computing device, and that it is propped up by the situations below. What do you think generates $20B in sales? That's a lot of tills flight aids.

I think the iPad has succeeded as a general purpose computation device for normal people who use computers for email / music / Facetime / photos etc.

Always seems like its the 'power users' who don't seem to understand the iPad when the average person can pick one up and do most things they want to do with one.

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Slartie6y ago

That is not what I would consider "general computing device", more like "media consumption device", and yes, it is fairly good at that.

I would require a device to be regularly used for content creation as well in order for it to qualify as "general computing device". But pretty much the only "content creation" that I see happening on iPads in normal peoples' households is writing emails. By that account, our smartphones are certainly more qualified for the "general computing device" tag, because those are regularly used to create photos and videos in addition to mails and instant messages.

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