I don't think the huge number of severely disabled people, that use Apple products to greatly enrich their lives due to their best-in-class accessibility features, really need your pity all that much.
That's aside form the effect iOS is having on education. Just take a look at "Bobo Explores Light" and "Dragonbox", not to mention the dozens of Khan Academy videos my girls have watched on their iPad Minis. Then there's the times they do their homework with their Mini to hand so they can look up reference material on the web. And then there's bed time, when they often curl up in bed to read an iBook, often a free one from Gutenberg or elsewhere. They've read a lot of Kipling that way.
Why would you remember anything if you can just look it up on Google? :) - Google effects on the brain.
Why do you need to know spelling, if you have auto-correct on your device?
What did they do with the Khan Academy videos? Did they have a pen and paper with them? Or a pc to do things with it? Note stuff on it. Then they used their tablet to consume things and something else to produce things :)
Yeah, you can watch videos (consuming) to produce on something else :). You can learn by consuming, yes. I have never said otherwise.
PS. Reading is still consuming, watching videos (educational or not) is still consuming.
PS II. I know people get easier access to digital media with a tablet. In that way, it can be enriching.
But severly disabled people can (indeed) enrich their lives with a tablet. But it's still through consuming and not producing.
That's aside form the effect iOS is having on education. Just take a look at "Bobo Explores Light" and "Dragonbox", not to mention the dozens of Khan Academy videos my girls have watched on their iPad Minis. Then there's the times they do their homework with their Mini to hand so they can look up reference material on the web. And then there's bed time, when they often curl up in bed to read an iBook, often a free one from Gutenberg or elsewhere. They've read a lot of Kipling that way.