Avoiding The Buzz

So I've been avoiding my blog the last couple weeks.  Partly because I've been super busy secretly getting a new job, and planning my exit strategy to get out of the Northeast.  Since everything is publicly in the works now, I can write again.  I did say partly though.  My other reason for avoiding my blog is because all I can think about when it comes to geeking out is how pointless I think the iPad is.  So many people are in love with it, and I just feel like I'll go on a complete rant about how useless it is.  The only legitimate purpose I can see for it is as a really cool replacement for the Kindle.  Outside of that, it won't be replacing any of my netbooks anytime soon.  That's right, I have netbooks.

I've met a lot of new people in the last couple weeks, and many have told me "I bet you're on the waiting list for the iPad".  At first I thought this was funny because my geek flag flies high even if I just met you, but then it makes me wonder why people can't tell I'm a PC.  Is it because I'm obsessed with my iPhone and refuse to even look at the NexusOne or any of the Droid phones?  I have an odd sense of loyalty to the iPhone because it truly was a mind blowing technology for me 3 years ago, and I feel like it's not done impressing me yet.  I just can't wait to get rid of AT&T.  The final stage of happiness with the iPhone will be when I can use it with Verizon.  I hear it's coming soon :-).

Update on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at 7:08PM by Desirea

Ok, follow-up to this posting is LONG overdue, but I feel that I should share.  While I avoided the buzz of the iPad for a very long time, I did breakdown and buy one in June, 2010.  Does this make me a hypocrite?  No, because I ended up with the one caveat that I mentioned in my original article - there is no real purpose for the iPad unless you have a long commute or something like that.  Well my friends, I have an absurd commute - 75 mins, of which 60 minutes of it is all train.  When I first started commuting, I was doing all kinds of things on my iPad, but now I pretty much do nothing but read books with the kindle app, and occasionally respond to work emails.  If there was an AdWords Editor App for the iPad, I would probably do more work from the train, but I'm enjoying my leisure reading these days.  I've read more in the last 7 months than I have my entire life, excluding what I was forced to read for college.  I was a social sciences major - lots of reading in college.  Anyway, I think I'm on book 17 since June.  My average before used to be about 1 book a year :-).