Thank you, Mr. Chair. This problem is quite simple to me. I boil it down to this little piece. The question is to iPad or not to iPad. Whether it is noble to suffer without an iPad or to slings and arrows without rages fortunate against those who cannot afford it – that darned iPad – or to take arms against those trying to offer those iPads, and in the end, as we oppose them as we go to sleep, there will be no iPads for any children or any family.
It’s quite simple. The challenge before us is do we support the iPads to get in the hands of the young people and the parents and provide the mechanisms to do that. I don’t have such concerns with the iPad. Actually, I am more about the technical side, about who is responsible for content, who is going to own the iPads, who is going to maintain them? What if they get dropped? Do they get replaced? Who’s going to supply the Internet and stuff?
I do hear the concerns brought forward by the Members who are concerned, but the reality is this is a trend which is that sometimes things just don’t get done without corporate support. We have to be thankful when they come in and they are able to do things.
Is this a taxation problem as Mr. Bromley has brought up? Maybe in the bigger picture it is in some ways, but no one can deny that that can’t be a real consideration of the problem, but I don’t think we are solving today’s problem by standing in the way of the iPads. I am more concerned about now, once we have them in our hands, are we responsible for content? When I sign on to my computer in the morning, the first thing it says is it controls the contents, a little message about using it appropriately, et cetera. Well, if the government is buying an iPad, where do we take the responsibility? When I say government, I mean it means with Chevron’s money, that is. But I think that is one of the questions that need to be fully answered for the public.
Are these going to be disposable in the context of giving them away? Let’s start with those technical questions I am more focused on. Thank you.