@Geoff Campbell
From that extremely small sample I would have to draw the conclusion that you have seven friends who are normal people and the rest of your friends are geeks.
There is nothing wrong with being a geek, just that 98% of the world is made up of real people and 2% of the world is made of geeks.
I just made that last statistic up, but you get the idea. I think this proves that Apple are having it all their own way, and that if they ever produce a tablet your geek friends would buy, they they clearly have lost their way.
MH