Tech Exec at EMC Reviews The iPad

Chuck Hollis, the Gloabl Marketing CTO at EMC, has a fun post (What iPads Did To My Family) on his personal blog about his family's week-one experience with the iPad.  Hollis makes the iPad's impact vividly clear with such comments as:

The members of my family immediately gravitated to the new shiny thing -- no prompting, no encouragement, no migration, etc.  They are drawn to it like a moth to flame.

Even more revealing is this statement:

I don't think I'll be buying any more desktops going forward.  I don't think I'll even be buying any more laptops going forward.

They've all been largely obsoleted (at least at my home) by a sleek $499 device that doesn't really have any right to be called a "computer" in the traditional sense.

Read the full post here.