Tablet PC's are currently the rising star of the tech world mainly due to Apple's continued ability to brainwash the population into buying what ever gadget they 'need' next. This has prompted other electronic giants (HP, Acer, Asus, Samsung to name a few) to create their own decrepit touchscreen offspring. Now apart from basically being a less useful net book and each model having the shelf life of a gold fish (about one year), tablets are essentially consumerism gone mad.

Oh. No. It's. Gone. So. So. Sad.

This insatiable need for the latest technology is personified by Apple's latest Television (That's the box you used to watch shows on before laptops cemented themselves to your thighs) Advert. The premise of the commercial is that the Ipad 2 is useful to absolutely every segment of the population. In fact it goes further than useful. To quote the Advert "To a C.E.O it's essential". Basically what Apple are saying is that if you are in charge of a multinational firm and don't own an Ipad it's over. No amount of future planning will save the company from failure unless the whole board room are wielding those shiny screens that can go on Facebook. In fact surly an office with out Ipads would be more productive if people didn't have the option to play Angry Birds in HD all day.

Apple goes on to state that "To a child (the Ipad) is magical". To a child a piece of sting attached to a stick is magical, drinking water upside down is mind blowing and inanimate objects (Action man, Barbie) provide endless hours of fun. Why Apple is trying to push another way for kids to get square eyes is beyond rational thought.

Mugs?

Further more the Ipad is apparently "ground breaking to a doctor". A doctor using an Ipad in their practice it should be smashed over their incredibly educated heads. Honestly apart from showing the patients how bad their STD's could get and watching cute animals do funny things to cheer up the terminally ill it has no place in a clinic.

For Apple to try and say that the Ipad is for every one is partly true. This is only due to the fact having a 10 inch window you can watch you tube on and play whatever App is popular on the market is quite fun. Now the real question is is it worth £500?

Unless you won the Euro Millions the answer is probably not. The Ipad is just something else people can supplement their personality's with.

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