The Chronic Consumer

So now that everyone has had a few days to mull over the Apple iPad, it seems that most people agree that the only ones who will buy this thing are total Apple fanboyz. After all, what seems to be the purpose? If you want a phone, then the iPhone is the product for you. If you don’t need the phone component, then why not just get a touch? I’m not sure what this bigger tablet is supposed to accomplish — especially when it doesn’t even come with a physical keyboard. Seriously, if you wanted to sit there and tap out 500-word blog posts on the virtual keyboard, the iPhone or iPod Touch would work just as well, right?

And the price. The iPad starts at $499, then moves up to $599 and $699 depending on the storage size. Data packages will cost extra. For worldwide users waiting on the 3G model, those will cost $629, $729, and $829. Wow, for those prices I can pay off a whole year’s worth of low cost term life insurance premiums or something, ya know? That’s pretty insane!

Look, I like iPods as much as the next person and have a bunch of them. But I’m getting tired of people falling all over anything and everything Apple releases just because it’s from Apple. In other words, no iPad for me!

(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)