Duhhh...the story has nothing to do with (regarding its value or its worth to its user) the iPad other than using it as an example because it’s ‘hot’!
Quite. If the article was about how $1 spent now deprives you of $4 thirty years hence so choose wisely and make it count, fine.
It wasn’t.
It’s an excuse to bash the iPad.
Clue, naysayers: if you don’t want one, don’t buy one. I use mine every day, and it’s made me a lot more money that it cost, since I got it 30 minutes after it went on sale. If you’re concerned that spending $1 now deprives you of $4 later, consider how much time you’re wasting bashing a product nobody is making you buy.