Quick thought: iPad
April 11, 2010
I haven’t been neglecting this blog, honest. I just can’t finish any of the articles I want to write for one reason or another.
Just a quick thought. One of the most frequently heard questions I keep seeing over and over regarding the iPad is, “Why do you need it?” Now I have no interest in one myself — if I only casually wanted a portable PC, I’d be all over it, but I intend to go back to school eventually, and the iPad just wouldn’t cut it with its on-screen keyboard.
But I want to point out, it’s such a bullshit rhetorical technique. Everybody knows that nobody needs anything but food, shelter, and clothes if he or she is modest.
It’s perfectly okay to want/lust after something, and it’s nobody else’s business … except maybe creditors. I guess being an Apple fan is just a slightly more abstract hobby.
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