Has your iPad paid for itself yet?

[hachiman]

I mainly use my iPad on my treadmill (on the magazine holder). I've been doing that since it came out, just about every other day since I got it.

My figure looks much, much better to say the least, and I'm much healthier. Financially, it saved me from buying junk food and made me rethink about my habits. I can't put a price on how much it saved me in terms of health. Long term, it may save me thousands of dollars from being in the hospital for heart diseases.

And it makes using the treadmill that much more enjoyable.

It hasn't actively made me money. But for my situation, I've already lost count on how much money I've saved and will save as I keep using it.

 

[Alvi]

No. But It would be hard to live without it, it's a nice gadget to have but it's not a must-have for me
For me it's mainly a Jukebox, Magazine Reader, a nice fast browser I can pull out to do some stuff online and a mailbox.

There are also some killer apps that make me like it but I could live without it, especially now with OSX Lion. I'm just not patient enough to do the "Productive" stuff on it because most of the ways are a bit cramped (and I'm not just talking about the touchscreen keyboard) iOS5 will make that better.