Now Seeing iPads In Public, Daily
A personal, extremely loose litmus test of a successful tech product is how often I see said product on my semi-regular commute, north of Silicon Valley into San Francisco, via CalTrain and MUNI.
This is the first week where every day, in both directions, I spotted someone using an iPad. Generally, folks are using it to browse the web while on CalTrain, but I saw one guy immersed in his on the T light rail and another walking down Sansome sporting headphones, holding an iPad like a gigantic iPod. I didn’t pause to see whether he later had to be scraped off the asphalt of the next intersection. As a further note: I saw several iPads at the Paul McCartney concert, which is a rather odd place to bring one, unless you planned on waving it over your head as a large cigarette lighter.
So seeing an iPad in public around these parts is quickly no longer novel; and marks an extremely quick product adoption.
As for other products:
- iPhones are everywhere. Sometimes it seems like every other person is poking at their own private oblong glass slab.
- Blackberrys, Kindles, and what seem like Google Android phones run about even.
- Only once saw a Nook.
- Never seen a Palm Pre, Kin, or JooJoo tablet.
- Yes, still a lot of laptops and netbooks but they are on the decline.