EMC Marketing Executive Chuck Hollis wrote on his blog about how his family has reacted to the iPad.
Initially:
My wife and kids summed it up in 30 seconds. “Oh no, Dad bought another toy”. “Why do we need something else with a CPU in it?”. “What does it replace?”. And so on.
Which later turned into:
Within four hours, my wife was playing with the photo app, and sending pictures to people — she’d be meaning to do so for a while. Tap, tap, tap. She was doing that from the back porch with a frosty adult beverage to complement the activity…
…my 14 year old daughter (the artist in the family) started playing with an Autodesk illustrator app I had downloaded. Tap, tap, tap.
“Dad, this is cool”. Tap, tap, tap. “Look at this!” My email is now filling up with her drawings.
My college daughter is home from school. Late that night, she grabbed it and ran up to her room. Tap, tap, tap. “Dad, I want one”. “You do know, there’s wi-fi everywhere on campus — this would be perfect”.
The chaos that followed thereafter:
“Who forgot to charge the iPad?”.
“Hey, if you’re going to eat pizza and use the iPad, at least wipe it! How gross!”
“You already used the iPad this afternoon, it’s my turn!”.
“How do I print from this thing?” “Can we download some more games?”. “Check out this cool video”.
The consequence and the future:
All the PCs and laptops are basically not being used. All the Macs are not being used. All have been powered off.
Everyone in the family is waiting for their turn at the iPad.
I don’t think I’ll be buying any more desktops going forward. I don’t think I’ll even be buying any more laptops going forward.
They’ve all been largely obsoleted (at least at my home) by a sleek $499 device that doesn’t really have any right to be called a “computer” in the traditional sense.
Sure, there’s a handful of tasks that I still would prefer a real computer, but — amazingly — that list has now shrunk dramatically. In less than a week.
I now have this strange love/hate relationship with Apple. And I think it won’t be long before I’m forced to make another trip back to the Apple store.
From TUAW.
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