Why use it at a bar? I just don't see the appeal of lugging that thing around anywhere outside of the house. I have an iPhone to be mobile and get quick information. I want to lug around less stuff when I go out not more.
So this is the way it's going to be? Make a statement about it being a "toy," and then change the argument when it's refuted? My last statement illustrated that your "toy" statement was incorrect. Instead of addressing that, you attempted to change the debate.
Whether you want to take it with you or not is not relevant to your original point. Clearly, others do (Roughly 1,000,000 others to date, and rising daily). I, or nobody else who owns one of these should have to justify to you how or when they choose or need to use their tools.
You have an iPhone, and find it's all you want or need when you leave the house. That's great. Good for you. I own an iPhone, too. I would never use my iPhone to do all of the things I mentioned in my previous post. Most of those functions would have been done with my Macbook Pro in the past. But I would never lug that around, and go though the hassle of pulling it out, booting it up, worrying about running out of battery, etc. I could just as easily ask you why you place such value over not having to "lug" 10 ounces with you when it clearly gives you a much richer and fuller experience than the iPhone does. But that's your choice. That's what works for you, and I respect that choice.
Would you never "lug" a Book or a Kindle with you? I would. But the iPad gives me so much more than the Kindle would, in a package that easily fits in my hand.
So please, tell me why my iPad is a toy, as you originally claimed. Fact is, you can't, because you made a subjective judgment about others' needs, with no real insight into the subject.
