Even Oprah Loves the iPad!
Posted by Eileen Komanecky on Mon, Apr 26, 2010 @ 09:53 AM
Being at home with a cold this week was a good excuse to indulge in one of my guilty pleasures - watching Oprah's show. The topic was people who had dream jobs. One lady was the lead fashion designer for J. Crew, another person was the Cake Boss, who created amazing cakes for all kinds of people and events. The last guy last the "gadget guru." He was there that day to talk about how much fun he had everyday working with all the latest & greatest technology. With what I do at simpleHome, I could relate to this guy. I really liked him when I saw how excited he was to show off the new iPad. I couldn't wait for him to explain to Oprah, and all of America, about the huge impact on home automation the iPad will have.
Oprah could hardly even let the gadget guru guy talk. She already had an iPad and had already fallen in love with the thing. As an avid reader, Oprah loved the iPad as a virtual library that gave her instant access to millions of books with amazing visual quality. She raved about how the iPad was perfect for showing her digital photo collection of her dogs and some tree she likes, and also watching movies in great quality, anywhere in the world.
All this talk about the iPad was fine, but I was left frustrated. I wanted to hit the gadget guru over the head with my remote. "Hey, Mister, tell Oprah that the iPad is great for controlling your home, too. She can be reading in bed and control her lights, thermostat, security on the same screen. She can use it to see everything on her surveillence cameras at all 17 of her houses. She can turn on the music or TV with it. Tell her that the iPad can take the place of a much more expensive touch panel to control her home systems. What kind of a gadget guru are you, anyway? You would never make it at simpleHome, Buddy!"
So the moral to this story is that the iPad is a good thing. It's a great value, easy to use, fun and can do tons of things - more than can be discussed in one Oprah segment. If you are interested in learning more about the iPad, you can either watch the rerun of the Oprah show, or visit someone at simpleHome to check it out for yourself. We'd love to show it off for you and talk about all the things the gadget guru didn't have time to mention.