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Apple iPads: Ego Over Ergo

Jul 16, 2010

Summary

Apple iPads are rapidly gaining attention in the consumer world, forcing enterprise IT to re-evaluate tablets as a potentially supported business device. Springboard Research believes that Apple iPads have become the new "ego" device, rather than being an appropriate "ergo" device. That is, consumers have become so enamoured by the device, as a status symbol, that they overlook the basic shortfalls of the tablet-based form factor.

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