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"I can answer my own question: Apple doesn't want people to share these devices: fewer sales."

Bingo.

Apple wants people to share iPads only to the extent that doing so gives other people a trial of the product, and ideally, a burning desire for it. Apple doesn't want the kids sharing Mom's iPad; Apple wants kids bugging Mom half to death for their own iPads.



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