I find it almost obnoxious that when people bring up legitimate reasons they aren't in love with the iPad and features that would either help them tip the scale or that they would like to see are so "easily" dismissed by those that love the iPad.
The people who are explaining why they are disappointed or what features they feel are lacking are just written off as "well you don't need that" "there's no reason to support that" "That's not what the iPad is for"
It's pretty much all crap. And just because you don't care about (for example) flash, multitasking, silverlight, fill-in-the-blank - that doesn't mean everyone does or that you can just dismiss it like they aren't important with these so-called "justifications"
You don't NEED a radio/cd player in a car and not having one won't make a care not successful or not sell. But there's no denying that having one can add to ones enjoyment of driving around. And whether or not YOU would use one in the car doesn't mean the car shouldn't have one.
I don't use a lot of features and/or settings for my iPhone and iMac. That doesn't mean I would argue they weren't necc. Or that the devices shouldn't have them. Even if they could potentially cause battery drains, poor performance, etc.
But back to my point - it's obnoxious to just dismiss criticism with the "you don't need it" attitude. No one know what another person NEEDS. And at the end of the day - no one NEEDS an iPad anyway. So maybe from now on when someone tells another that they don't need silverlight - or flash, or multitasking, we can just respond "you don't need an iPad either"
