Ignore the Naysaying "Nerds"

I want people to remember a few things. When the Mac came out with it's GUI it was dismissed as a toy. Later the entire publishing industry was changed. Music production changed. and PC's went from DOS to windows.

The Wii was derided as being underpowered. No way could it compete with the XBox and Playstation 3 that had all the technological bells and whistles. Ahem. How many Wii's have been sold to date? How many homes is the Wii in. And most importantly how many homes is a Wii in that previously never had or even considered a game console?

When the iPod came out. Oh it's too expensive. Oh no one is going to pay for all that when they can get a (insert now bankrupt or dead last place company name here). Yeah OK.

When the iPhone came out. How many people dismissed it? Oh it can't do this. it can't do that. It doesn't have this. It doesn't have that. And how many iPhones have been sold. And how many businesses write special apps for it? And....

I look at some of these "intelligent" critics and think of the housing market bubble. Most of the experts didn't see it coming. Oh there were a few of us who sounded the alarm. Who refused to put our money into what we knew were inflated homes. Yeah. experts who get paid way more than I to make predictions on simple shit like should home prices be going up 50% every two years missed the boat.

They are missing the boat here. Like I said in my previous post, this device and the multiple others that will come along is going to challenge people to reconsider how they compute. Do they use a laptop because it is in fact the best device for the job at hand, or because it's simply the only device available or used to. Change is coming folks the iPad is the first (to market) device to spark the change. Catch the wave. This is change you can believe in.