How does the IPad changes or challenges society in a political ...

Question by Jessica: How does the IPad changes or challenges society in a political, social and an economical way?
How does the ipad changes or challenges society in a political, social, economical way?
In addition, how does the ipad relate to the 3 disciplines of Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology?

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Best answer:

Answer by Monkat
Well, politically, the iPad won?t have much of an impact, other than potentially (although however unlikely) getting people to read the news more on it.

Socially, the iPad, again, won?t change anything. Tablet computers have been around for a long time, and it is pretty expensive for what it is. Challenges, on the other hand are different. The iPad was introduced as an expensive, new, and unneeded toy in an economically unstable time. People personally have to decide whether they can afford it, or whether they actually want it. In fact, for the most part, the only reason people buy Apple products is because it is an Apple product, regardless of quality.

Economically, it is going through it?s boom stage right now. Money will go from consumers to Apple, which will pay off the debt of making the device, and then turn up some profit. Stores will often gain little-to-no profit from these devices, so it won?t make a huge splash, especially in the long-term. As stated before, people need to decide whether they can afford it or not, and I suppose that?s the only real challenge that can come about in an economic sense.

Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology are essentially the same thing, with three different groups of people. Psychology refers to the individual, Sociology meaning a group of individuals in a society, and Anthropology being culture at large. Thusly, all three of them can be answered with one line of reasoning. It relates to them in saying that people love to chase brand names, which means they have a connection with the company. Forming a connection with a company means that they are needy, and enjoy connections. What that boils down to is that people have a growing need for relationships, be it with actual people, or even with a faceless entity like Apple. Also, the brand-name thing really embodies capitalism as a whole, but that?s a whole different story. More importantly, the iPad really introduces the concept of instant gratification to us, yet again. People don?t want to have a collection of books that they have to look through, or actually even turn the pages anymore. They want a one-paged book that can give you the definition of a word at the touch. On that matter, also, people want to remain ignorant, using nothing but their hands to control things, without even a simple understanding of how a touch screen works.

Sorry if that sounded rant-like, and hope that helps, with your homework I assume!

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