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That wasn't what it was being sold for, so no it isn't.

Interesting definition. I would have said what it's sold for doesn't matter at all when we're taking about whether it's fit for some arbitrary purpose.

I want to probe your definition a bit. Let's say a factory makes gears. All the broken ones get recycled. After all quality checks have been done, some of the passing gears are pulled off the line and redirected to the gift shop to be sold as paperweights.

1. Are unsold gears in the factory storeroom fit for purpose as gears?

2. Are unsold gears in the gift shop fit for purpose as gears?

2a. If yes, do they lose that fit at the moment of sale?

2b. If no, do they regain that fit if the factory has production issues and brings a crate back from the gift shop to sell as gears?

Comparing Apples to Oranges.

One is a device sold with a specific purpose that the buyers knowingly paid for, the other is a piece of isolated pieces pluggable hardware.

There is no specific purpose for an iPad.

Apple's actual marketing postures the iPad as a general computing device

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S5BLs51yDQ

“with iPad Pro + iOS 11, a post-PC world may be closer than you think.”

https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/16/ipad-pro-whats-a-computer-ad/

Please explain exactly what an iPad Pro is supposed to be used for. List out every possible use case of an iPad Pro.

I think you'll find that you will quickly exhaust the max character limit...

Here there you go, https://www.apple.com/ipad/

> Over a million other ways to use it [...] Turn your iPad into almost anything — from a math classroom or workstation to a professional recording studio

Sounds like a general purpose device to me.

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