Apple.com’s home page and email list are touting “iPad is here.” With the disclaimer “Wi-Fi + 3G models available in late April.” Unless you’re Woz, of course; he’s got his 3G iPad already.
Apple has also added a bunch of Made-For-iPad app videos on their website:
Welcome to a whole new world of apps. From games to education to productivity, there are over 1000 new apps made just for iPad you can discover now on the App Store. They’re unlike anything you’ve seen or touched before. And this is just the beginning.
• The Elements
• Real Racing HD
• Marvel Comics
• The Wall Street Journal
• Epicurious
• At Bat 2010
• E*TRADE Mobile Pro
• Asphalt 5
• SCRABBLE
• F1™ 2010
• Labyrinth 2 HD
Check them out here.
And so it begins…
I ordered my 3G iPad at 7:35 am on 3/12/1010. (Cue sound of foot-tapping.)
Winnie the Pooh is included?
We don’t even have a date or price for any iPad here in the UK
Here in SouthAmerica are still waiting …… for how much time!!!!!!!
Go to USA to buy one is like 3 iPads.
I am posting this from my iPad. Love it!
Is it just me, or has the course of civilization shifted a bit today?
Pre-ordered two 16 GB wifi models last week.
Apple shipped these this past Tuesday.
I found out UPS does not deliver on Saturdays in my area and there is no customer pickup on Saturdays, either.
So, I have to wait until Monday.
There are going to be people waiting in lines in Apple store all over the U.S. who are going to get their iPads before me.
I think Apple should have made sure that the people who pre-ordered their iPads were the first to get them. Even if they got them a day earlier or used a different shipping method other than
UPS to ensure they get delivered.
At least I know I have two iPads definitely coming to me.
So, I avoided the whole getting to an Apple store early and waiting in line thing.
One was for my mother as a B-Day gift.
So, she’ll be getting her iPad on Monday!
Apple didn’t bulk ship me two units.
They sent them individually.
Hopefully both of these will be arriving together.
just got mine delivered in dfw 955am
My iPad is syncing right now. iTunes desperately needs an “uncheck all” option in Apps; I have hundreds of apps I never use and had no desire to sync.
The on-screen keyboard definitely takes some getting used to. You definitely can’t rest your hands on the screen. Holy key repeat, Batman!
When the reviews came in, I broke down and ordered a 3G too. Want to make sure I get one in time for my vacation in May. The iPad is perhaps the world’s most perfect travel device, but wifi wouldn’t do me much good in the Everglades.
Some random thoughs about the Apple iPad:
Early Spring product launch (Apple’s birthday) means a sufficient lead time for early adopters to get their hands on it, play with it, evangelize it. This will become the Must-Have Christmas Gift to get; or to Give.
Business concerns: the main issue so far being security. Several articules and posts in previous months about strong passwords may be missing the real opportunity here: this device is a Touchscreen. Fingerprint ID security and encryption software has been around for years, but can finally come in to its own with the iPad. To make it truly secure would require Apple’s blessing to access the protected parts of the OS. The average developer won’t get it, but a big company like IBM *could*, if a convincing enough business case can be made – and if Apple decides it will throw Enterprise customers a bone.
‘Missing’ features. Apple iPad 2.0 won’t appear until next year sometime. Apple’s strategy is not to offer everything at once, and offer enhancements once a year. Best example: if there is sufficient demand for a built-in camera, (we already know there’s space inside the device for one, so speak up, people!) Apple will offer it next year. Remember, there was no Apps Store with iPhone version 1.0. Steve originally wanted apps to be web-based only.
‘Missing’ features II: It’s not a computer. Good! No messy cables to tangle up or figure out where to plug in. No hard drive to crash (not that data can’t get lost with a flash drive, but that’s not where I’m going with this). No adapters or ports. One button onscreen, one connector port. Simplicity itself. Which leads me to:
Welcome to the Dynabook – Finally. 40 Years after Alan Kay envisioned a tablet-sized device for creating and sharing information, “The Computer For The Rest of Us” has arrived. The iPad isn’t intended for the computer savvy: it’s an Information & Content appliance for the ordinary person who wants to share in the Internet experience, send a message, get to a webpage to view or send photos, watch a movie, listen to music, read a book or a magazine or a newspaper; and all they have to do with this device is turn it on and Go.
Cloud Computing, or The future of Storage and Content: While security and privacy concerns are still legitimate questions as yet unanswered, If there’s no hard drive to fail and lose data with, and your data is always available online, then content will become ‘disposable’. The average person won’t need to keep available portable hard drives or flash drives, and become involved with the process of saving it, copying it, archiving it, recovering it. This won’t happen overnight but the process, potentially, may have started. One The Unofficial Apple Website I found a comment by a teacher who saw the iPad and said, ‘You are looking at the end of backpacks.’ Maybe not right away, but think of the possibility that students won’t have to carry around so many heavy books anymore. They will be complete, no pages missing, not marked up.
Separate thought: with paper we also had libraries, archivists and historians. How we will capture & preserve this ‘disposable’ content for future generations? This is a big concern right now with NASA and JPL.
The Press has been very accommodating, seeding positive news about the iPad. Why not? Apple seems to be one of the few major American computer companies actually doing very well these days. It’s good to toot our own horn sometimes.
The Apple iPad will grow only as far as our imaginations will grow and as we continue to find new uses for it and discover ourselves in it. iCal this date and let’s see where we end up with it by this time next year.
Heh I was thinking the exact thing about the apps John.
Mines still in sync with my mac, haven’t even used it yet.
Too bad though my mac USB doesn’t charge I was thinking it would. It’s a 07 or 08 mini.
Oh also I asked my ups driver how many ipads he had today.
80, on one truck in dfw.
Bad Apple Bad.
I signed up for notification on Apple.ca
today I was notified that iPad was availabe, jumped out of bed to place my order but no such luck, holy false alarms Batman:-(
80 on one truck, did you hijack him?
I just got mine. When I talked to the UPS guy, he told me that in my area he was delivering quite a few, but that he drove with all of them from another town quite far away just to deliver iPads today, because they wouldn’t have made it otherwise, as they just got to his facility this morning.
Hmm, mine didn’t remember my home wifi network the first time I re-entered it. This could prove most unfortunate.
Weeeeeeeee!
I’m on my spanky & snappy iPad right now!
I updated a bunch of Apps and bought few new ones and upgraded some old ones.
This is my first bit of typing on it and it’ pretty darn nice!
So, my big question for all my fellow Padders…
What did you name yours?
I called mine Pad 39A after the Apollo launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
HELP!! I got my iPad and I can’t put it down!
My wife said since I didn’t get the G3 iPad (yet) I should name this one “Light Days Pad”…I told her she wasn’t funny!!!
YES I meant 3G!!
Mine came 9:05 am.
Wow.
Just Wow.
To all those who grouse it’s just a big iPod touch. Yeah…… it is. Everything you can think of to say, pro or con — simply does not matter once you pick it up and simply open a web page.
No USB — yeah.
No Camera — yeah.
No Keyboard — yeah.
No Flash — yeah (thank God).
The future is in my hands.
@mpsett
Relax
In the scheme of life, waiting for your iPad until Monday is really not a big deal.
I am sure your mother will be thrilled to get an iPad on Monday, even if it is a few days after her birthday. Later in life the delay in receiving your first iPad will just become part of the story.
I am waiting for 3G!
@mpsett
I was expecting the same situation here in NW New Mexico. No Saturday delivery where I live. Then at 9:05 AM, a call from UPS that I could come to their warehouse to pick it up! Out the door right away of course. Guy on duty said he was told to come in to work for a 1/2 day and call anyone who was out of the Saturday delivery area to come pick them up.
Sounded like UPS policy for the iPad launch so I hope you got a call today as well.
The iPad is amazing!
RRE
WOOO HOOOoooo!!!
Thank you Mr. Steve Jobs and Apple!
They came through.
UPS delivered my iPads today at 2:30 pm.
Unbelievable!
This device is unbelievably awesome!
Right out of the Star Trek Universe!
I got mine. My mom got hers.
She’s already leaning to love this device.
And she is not a very tech saavy person at all.
Like everyone else who got theirs today, I will be putting this device through its paces all week.
Typing on iPad is a WHOLE bunch better than typing on my iPod Touch!