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.
Many people don't buy one because they don't want one, but on any given thread about a problem about a system from some other vendor, there invariably has to be comments made that they should have bought an Apple product, as if they it's automatically assumed that they're too stupid to have bought what they wanted, and need to be educated.