How rare is the air I breathe!
Intomobile reports that only 2% of iPad owners are age 65 and up, and only 35% of the owners are female.
But a lot of my retired friends have iPads, and more will buy them as soon as the next version is released, hopefully next winter. Based on my friends, the gender split is about right.
Two of my male relatives, who are in their early 70s, say the Pads are the best gadget they have ever had. (One has all of his flight manuals stored in his pad for when he flies his small plane, and the other is a news junkie.)
I am addicted to the instant news-magazines-books access too, but I’m not nutso in love with my Pad yet because I wanted a 1.6# tablet to replace my 5.5# laptop, and the iPad still can’t replace my computer in three important ways:
It’s still too frustrating to do real writing on the Pad because of the lack of multi-tasking capability. This means that you have to close out of the document you’re writing to go look something up, then close out of that, then re-open your document. You don’t realize how often you look things up until you switch to a Pad. [This will be resolved with iOS4.something, something for iPads, which has been promised for November. My iPhone 3GS has had multitasking for months.]
I need a firewire connection (or high-speed USB) for my video work.
I give Webinars, so I need a video camera. [ I do not need or want a camera to shoot pix.]