With much anticipation, the iPad is on sale to the public today. I've never quite understood this almost pathological need to be the first on the block to own technology. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think that it's always the best decision.
I can recall that it was years before I bought a CD player. While I didn't benefit from the technology as others did, by the same token, I didn't pay the sky-high prices of new tech - often with a healthy chunk of R&D built into the cost. Let alone the fact that the technology needs to mature and for the most part, when we jump on this technology bandwagon.
It's pretty well considered that alpha and beta testers are those that test a product of technology before it gets released - shake the bugs out sort of thing. I refer to these people that live off of instant gratification as Gamma testers - those who pay a healthy dollar to for all intents of purposes test the technology in the "real world".
Thanks, but no thanks - not for me.
Maybe I'm technologically astute - or maybe I'm just a cheap Scotsman that wants to hold onto my dollars for a little bit longer.
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