Less than useful » ipad http://www.markosaar.net "I don't believe what I'm thinking" Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:20:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Quick thought: iPad http://www.markosaar.net/2010/04/11/quick-thought/ http://www.markosaar.net/2010/04/11/quick-thought/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:28:43 +0000 Mark http://www.markosaar.net/?p=216 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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