Take the BoomTown Vs. Zuckerberg Survey: Is the Apple iPad Mobile or Not?
Yesterday, BoomTown wrote a post titled “Dear Zuck: The Apple iPad Is Mobile (So Sorry!),” countering Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s statement at a press event earlier this week that the popular tablet device is not.
As I wrote about what the kingpin of the social networking giant said:
Ben Parr of Mashable asked a question everyone has been speculating about recently–whether and when there would be an iPad app for Facebook coming.
A fumbling “no comment” would have worked fine, but the real Zuckerberg seemed to have decided to channel the clever Aaron Sorkin-ish repartee of the fictional Zuckerberg in the movie “The Social Network.”
“It’s not mobile…it is a computer,” he said flatly.
“I think Apple would disagree with you,” noted Parr.
“Well, sorry,” Zuckerberg spat out, his voice dripping with the kind of sarcasm that only a super-nerdy Silicon Valley engineer can pull off properly.
I disagreed, noting:
The iPad is a computer, because that is technically true, even though that makes a smartphone a computer too. (And, now that I think of it, my car is a computer.)
But actual civilians don’t make these kinds of distinctions and, if one spends any time watching consumers use tablets, mobile is entirely how they think of it.
The post got a lot of comments, and tweets too, so I thought I would post a survey so that everyone can cast their own vote.
And I won’t blame the economy if I lose, so click away (and I will post the results later):
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