The iPad is a cool new gadget from the over-hyped and overvalued Apple company.
In what the government claims to be a paper and cost savings measure, the Saskatchewan Party is giving their cabinet ministers iPads. The government goes on to claim that one office will save over $50,000 worth of paper costs in a year. Computer technology is not new; the ministers could have been viewing their documents electronically for years.
Officials say that the new iPads, with all their neat applications, will only be used for government business. Show us that the Facebook and Twitter apps have been removed from the devices and then maybe we will believe it.
In addition to the very small and distracting BlackBerrys, the ministers will carry around iPads to play with at meetings when others are speaking. Let’s just hope all the ministers can get their iTunes off their iPods and transfer them to their iPads without much iTrouble.
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