iPad?, No thanks!
Last month, Apple launched its newest toy yet, the iPad. This device comes at a time when I feel that Apple has taken a substantial amount of my hard earned cash over the past 8 years and I am now seriously trying to resist any temptations to send more of my money to 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, California – an address that sounds as beautiful as the gadgets they produce. In one of the so many articles about Apple’s success story it is said that ‘since its establishment in 1976, Apple has upheld its philosophy of comprehensive aesthetic design resulting in a unique reputation in the consumer electronics industry and a customer base that is devoted to the company and its brand’ – that customer base includes yours truly. In 1991, I used my first Apple product - a Macintosh desktop, which was also the first computer I ever touched. While it was nice and easy to use, the lack of compatibility of its operating system with the more popular IBMs (Windows operating system) meant that I had to...