Master Gunner wrote:And my father, a baby boomer, would likely go with the Courier over the iPad. Then again, he's where about 1/2 of my pathological hatred of macs came from, so bad example.
I get that baby boomers might like it, I get that it will sell. Everything I've said has always being why I, and people like myself, do not like it. Stephan Fry managed to get me to be a bit more lenient towards it, but if he can't get me to like it, nothing will.
I was going to make a post on my thoughts, but Gunner has summed them up admirably, so all I really need to say is...
+1
In all honesty, I also see it as a viable competitor to the Kindle, and more power to it. But guess what? I'm not interested in ANY electronic book-replacement device, either...