Jason Abrahamson

If the iPad wasn’t bad enough all by itself, these guys decided to put 11.43 carats worth of diamonds on one. That’s good, just what we need, one more over paid rapper walking around with a diamond studded iPad – as if they didn’t have enough bling already.

Truthfully I don’t see the point of the iPad let alone one covered in diamonds. What is even more troubling to me is they wouldn’t make it if there wasn’t a demand for it. Though I’ll never grasp the gold plated mac book, or the diamond studded iPhone at least I can see the novelty in it – this I don’t see at all.

Let’s talk about that too though; what is the point of the iPad? Somebody asked me what I thought of it, and I told them if Zack Morris had an iPhone on Saved by the Bell it would be the size of the iPad. The argument is it’s the device in between a laptop and an iPhone.

Now, I don’t have an iPhone, never cared much for it, but it’s a useful tool. It’s a smart phone, and a rather good one at that, even revolutionary. I have a laptop, most of us do nowadays, and it does everything my smart phone doesn’t. Thus leaving me to ask WHY do I need an iPad? To me the iPad looks like a glorified e-reader or something similar to that. Sort of reminds me of those gizmos In-N-Out uses to take your order to avoid using the intercom.

The really shocking part, or not, is that Apple has pre-sold hundreds of thousands of these things. Again, why? My feeling is a lot of these people are cult followers who will literally buy everything Apple makes. Apple could make calculator watches and these people would wait outside the store for 3 days in the pouring rain just to be featured on the Today show and be the first one to get one.

News Anchor: “So you just waited in line for 3 days to get the first calculator watch produced by Apple, how do you feel?”

Apple Fan: “No I haven’t, but I played with the demo in the store for 13 seconds immediately after buying the very first one ever sold in this store, and it’s just, ya, it’s amazing. It’s entirely in Latin though, you know Apple, thinking different”

The iPad might change the e-reader business, but I hardly think it will make the impact that the iPhone and iPod respectively made. These were both revolutionary devices that before they even shipped, you knew you wanted. The iPad isn’t that. You have to give credit where credit is due though…Apple has one heck of a propaganda machine and marketing down to a science.

Digressing, the Diamond iPad DEFINITELY makes the “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should” segment.