You may have noticed that Apple closed at $381.32 a share on Friday on the NASDAQ. Like all stocks, it’s down these days (from a high of $419). It’s hardly a revelation to say that the Mac world isn’t going away, which our eldest son has been telling us for two decades.
It’s taken a while for the cruise ship industry to buy into the whole “Apple thing” and that’s not especially surprising because it’s taken the whole world a while.
Celebrity was first to catch on, by introducing iLounges on Solstice Class ships once it became abundantly clear that iPods and iMacs were only precursors to the revolutionary iPhones and the incomparable iPads.
Now Celebrity has company. Sort of.
Luxury line Regent has equipped its refurbished Voyager with iPads as perks in 117 penthouse and higher-category suites. Just out of dry-dock, the Voyager is presently 
sailing 10-to-14-day cruises in the Mediterranean before heading for Dubai and Australia.
Now this is like giving a perk to people paying a premium price on a premium cruise…suites on a luxury ship, right? Most of us could never go there, of course, even when they include the use of an iPad. On the other hand, how long until the iPad becomes a do-able perk for the masses, not just the wealthy.
After all, that’s what they used to say about all Apple products. They were too expensive and, therefore, only for the rich. They’d never make it in the “blue-collar” computer world.
That was 20 years ago.