1. Are you planning to buy an iPad?
Comments:
“If I am going to buy it it will probably be in a couple of years.”
“Waiting for the next, probably upgraded version.”
“It’s not yet (1) cheap enough, and (2) versatile enough to make the purchase. I’m not interested in being the Guinea Pig for this product.”
“I have way too many questions. Once they get answered, I will buy. I would like 3G but not with AT&T on board. I do not want to repay for apps.”
“The price point vs. the utility of this device makes me wonder who will [buy it]. I can only deduce that those buying it buy anything and everything Apple sells, or they think they should because others have given it a mark of ‘cool.'”
“Picking up three of them.”
“Not until multitasking and flash support are part of the package. So we experience the full Internet. Maybe version 3 or 4 of the iPad.”
“I’m interested in the 3G version, hoping to get some play time with a wi-fi one in the Apple Store between now and the next big release date.”
“Almost certainly will wait for the first [hardware] update.”
“As soon as it comes out in Canada.”
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Author: Wade Roush
Between 2007 and 2014, I was a staff editor for Xconomy in Boston and San Francisco.
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