[adorno]

Some "fad," Adorno.

It was a fad, and it doesn't matter how many were sold. Time and practicality proved that it was a fad. Sales volume is not an indicator of usefulness.

Sales have been going down, year after year, and even those that fell for the fad initially, are not coming back for more of the useless device. Yeah, except for the blind loyalists, like the iZombies.

My son-in-law has had one for 4 years, the only use he's had for it is as a "broadcaster" of movies to the Chromecast attached to his TV. Otherwise, he never uses it, and in fact, he's discovered that he doesn't even need the iPad for the "broadcasting", since any smartphone can serve the same purpose. So, he'll leave it to his 2 4-year old daughters to play games with. Other than that, not really a useful device.

[Swordmaker]

It was a fad, and it doesn't matter how many were sold. Time and practicality proved that it was a fad. Sales volume is not an indicator of usefulness.

The same people, and probably you, claimed the iPhone was a fad. They've sold over 1.2 billion iOS devices of which 900,000,000 are iPhones. The copy of the iPhone the Android phones, have sold 2 billion. Again, using your argument, fads are not based on numbers sold.

Fads fade with time. Yet the iPad is still selling 13 million units per quarter. . . and the tablet market it gave birth to is selling 65 million per quarter. THAT IS NOT A FAD. The people are not buying more because the iPads they are STILL using don't need to be upgraded. The ones they bought are still going strong. You don't replace what isn't broke.

Again you throw out useless insults. YOU don't use one, so you cannot conceive of a use.

What you posted about your SiL says more about his failure of talent and imagination than the device.