New iPad, no email address, iCloud?

Just bought an iPad for my octogenarian mother for Christmas. She hates computers and does not have an email address, and I am trying to picture Xmas day and setting up her device. Apple insists that she have an email address to use the device, but I don't see how to create one for her using only apple services. Seriously do I have to set up a gmail or yahoo email account to use an apple service?? Is it just me or does that strike anybody as insane that I have to use a competitors service to make an apple product function straight put of the box?
Have spent about two hours crawling the forums and apple FAQs tonight and am more confused than ever. I want a clean simple experience that morning, and I am not seeing that happening.
Tried to setup a .me account tonight for her,but the site does not offer that as an option.
Have used macs for decades. Have two in house now, 3 iPhones an iPad, apple tv and Airport express network. Not an apple newb. Not stupid. Very frustrated at how poorly apple has implemented iCloud and the PC free iOS experience.

Thanks for responding. When I set up a new iCloud account and an apple Id for her, it will demand an email address. She doesn't have one. It looks like I will have to create one using gmail in order to use an apple product. .me is unavailable to set up a new account. .mac takes you back to apple web site.
Apple has created a situation where you have to have an email to use their hardware, but they assume you already have one. Not one place in their documentation do they provide a mechanism to create one.
Some have suggested that you can create a .me account during the initial set up. I cannot confirm this from apples own FAQ or other support documents pertaining to iCloud.
I am ready to give up and create a gmail address for her, then use that to create her apple Id. My point is this is an absurd situation that apple has created. Customers Forced to use competitors services in order to set up apple hardware.

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