Bye Bye iPad
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It's kinda funny to consider how much stuff people will be willing to buy and pay for on a monthly basis before they reach some kind of tipping/ saturation point. You'll have your cable TV subscription of course. Once this 3D thing takes off I have no doubt they'll be hoping to charge premium (I can hear the slogan now "everyday is like Avatar").
If you're into gaming you'll want your X-Box Live membership to play the amazing new games of the future. You'll need a monthly cable internet service obviously, to use the X-Box membership. Then of course the fee for your iPhone so you can call people. The monthly fee for iPhone data. And now we have the Apple iPad with its own monthly fee for those moments when an iPhone or a computer just won't do.
Or...would you rather have the brand new Microsoft Courier? Or maybe you need both actually since the Courier isn't really an iPad, and fits a separate niche between the iPhone and the iPad. Neither of these things of course have the "digital ink technology," so for anything longer than a page you'll want the Amazon Kindle with associated subscription. In order to make your iPad, Courier, and Kindle worthwhile you'll need to subscriptions to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Netflix, Pandora, Last.fm, Soundcloud, and Photoshop Online, along with maybe throwing down $15-30 on whatever cool new apps come out each week.
Don't forget the hosting for your portfolio site, your Typekit subscription, AIGA dues and QBN Pro membership. Did I miss anything?