Our most recent cruise was the first time we saw, first-hand, why some travelers like Kindles and some like iPads.
In our uneducated opinion, Kindles ($139) are for carrying tons of books in a lightweight library smaller than most mouse pads. Travelers who want Internet access, some of the 360,000 apps that are out there and a touch keypad, AND books seem to opt for the more-expensive iPad ($499), also light and a little larger.
When you’re on a cruise ship for two weeks, both are great, but seeing iPads in action sold us. There is now an iPad 2 and since we’re usually a generation behind in computers, we’d be happy with an iPad 1. There is a small problem. There are none left.
Miloc Lazic, Celebrity’s Internet manager on the Eclipse, shook his head one day at the rampant growth of iThings: “Laptops replaced computers and iPads are replacing laptops. What is next — iChips in our head?”