MacDailyNews Take: Staus symbol? If that an attempt to demean or are the reporters just grasping for the proper words, but failing?
Ling and Barber report, “A mix of the ubiquitous iPhones and MacBook laptops, the iPad is essentially a flat, 10-inch touch screen with Internet access that can play music, photos and games. More than 200,000 downloadable apps are already available.”
“The iPad was greeted with skepticism when it was first unveiled by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in January,” Ling and Barber report. “But by the time it went on sale in the U.S. in April, the same hype that made the iPod a generational touchstone had sunk in. Within a month, more than a million had been purchased.”
Ling and Barber report, “Customers have been able to pre-order iPad models from Apple’s online store since May 10. Apple Canada spokesman Simon Atkins wouldn’t say how many have been pre-sold.”
Full article here.
Well I’m one of them and it is FREAKINNNN AWESOMMMME!
Sometimes being half a day behind Europe sucks, but the wait is finally over for this round of international iPad launch. Now Spare a thought for the countries apple hasn’t grace with a launch date yet.
I’m not personally convinced that I want one (I’m leaning towards it but want to try it out first), but the store I work at will be selling them so I’ll be able to play with the demo units when I go into work later today. I doubt there will be any actual units left from the shipment we got in, I suspect we’ll be low on stock for the next few months.
Why are these people so stupid? Why do they even use the “hype” word? It has nothing to do with hype. Apple simply makes very good products, so people buy them. They market them well and so people like to buy them. They deliver on what they promise and people feel secure buying them. What’s so freaking hard to figure out.
They seem to want to associate quality products with an elite market. I’d much rather buy an elite product than a piece of poo, wouldn’t you? hm. Nice rhyme!
I played with one at the Apple store today. It’s very nice. I’m waiting for more books and offline Map apps to appear. It it had the off-line Rand/McNally Road atlas available I’d be there in a heartbeat. I have heard that we Canadians have more liberal copy-wright laws that those draconian measures to the South and this is why we have few books and magazines available to us. Can someone confirm? I’m curious.
Now get an Apple US Gift Card (http://4saleusa.com/) and register an American iTunes account.
Then get Dragon Dictation for a start. Great app. And its free. But you need the US account.
Well, . . . I, for one, am tired of hearing about all the hype about the iPad. Mostly what I heard was FUD from the usual suspects.
I was considering purchasing my first laptop for traveling, but I also wanted something that would let me carry my pix in my hand, and maybe even video, and the ability to use the device with a DLP. I saw the iPad demo in the keynote, but I still wasn’t convinced or even excited. . . . One evening I went in to a Best Buy and there was a table full of iPads, and even an Apple sales guy. I only played with it for a minute, when I found myself helping to demo the device to some non-Apple people at the table. . . . It was that easy!
I tried the keyboard, and actually found it rather pleasant to work with. Now all this came to a senior citizen with no experience with an iPhone, or even an iPod.
I ordered the 3G 64 gig, a week later.
I haven’t loaded any music, or even additional apps. I’m getting plenty of use from it already. I have over 5,000 pix on it, and even some nice new video from a Flip HD.
Oh. By the way, I think I’m still going to get that MacBook Pro.
Looks like iPhone insurance may be coming…
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/05/28/iphone_insurance/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheBoyGeniusReport+(Boy+Genius+Report)
FedEx just pulled up! Woohooo!
Mine arrive in Toronto, 3.5 hours after Fedex latest delivery time as they were overwhelmed by the volume. The dirver said “everyone” was getting one.
Staus symbols sound German.
Canada’s launch was delayed because Apple had to remake Alex’s voice to say “eh” and “aboot”.
Wow, Cubert.
That was terribly unfunny.
Eh? What was so unfunny aboot that?
I picked mine up today from the Apple Store, it’s the freakin’ BOMB. The iPad is like something fromm way into the future, I just can’t get my head around how damn cool this ipad is.
Not sure if it’s UK only, but there’s a Guardian App that gives you a full on slideshow of the best pictures from around the world, and it’s free!
No lines if you knew where to go.
I went to a London Drugs Apple reseller when it opened at 9 AM. I was second in line. I waited 2 minutes for it to open. I was home playing with my 64 GB 3G 15 minutes later.
I’ve had mine in Toronto for a few hours now and I and my three year old are loving it! You have to use one to appreciate it. My son loves the Disney books. It came fully charged too!
“With glowing iPads we see thee rise . . . “
I don’t know where in Canada we pronounce “about” as “aboot”, but we sure do use “eh” a lot.
Concerning the person with the 3 year old using it. I have a 7 year old grandson who borrows my iPod touch and I’m thinking of getting the family – mother (who will use her MacBook Pro) and a 9 year old and the 7 year old an iPad for the holidays.
My question is this: When I lend my touch to the 7 year old, he sometimes accidentally holds a finger on an app for a bit too long and up pop the X’s for app removal, and moving of apps around.
It’s fine if he accidentally deletes the apps I have on there for him since I can reload them, although he will lose the data, but what protection do I have for him to accidentally delete MY important apps that have data that I can’t afford to lose?
I don’t want to be restoring my touch every time I come home from my grandson’s place, and by then, it won’t have the latest data anyway.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I don’t want to buy them an iPad if the apps are so easily deleted along with the data.
Thanks.
Greg
Such a beautiful device. A total pleasure to use. Fast and extremely slick. I visited the nearest Apple Store and purchased it within 3 minutes. Most people were testing the product out or attending the semiar. However, more then 1/2 the days supply of iPads was gone within the first 15 minutes the store opened.
Playing driving games on this is great… I am hooked makes any other handheld gaming platform look like a leapster..
@Tim,
Thanks! Always aiming to please.
Yes, MDN, it’s more of that than it is ‘revolutionary’. Apple’s marketing team long ago used the old ploy of false claims but then took the technique to a higher level than ever before because they pushed it so much that they made believers out of the media and obsessed followers who stupidly stand in line to buy their stuff only to later wonder why.
Your repeating the adjective multiple times per day doesn’t make it so nor does it advance Apple’s marketing plan any further than they do without you. So, give it up. One day it might be true and nobody will pay attention. It’s called crying wolf too often. Dumb.
“But by the time it went on sale in the U.S. in April, the same hype that made the iPod a generational touchstone had sunk in.”
Yeah, you know, all those Apple products that have ever been sold was the result of pure ‘hype’. It couldn’t *possibly* be because they are best-in-class devices or anything like that. People to too stupid to actually want the best. Yep, hype… pure hype. Riiiight.
Ling & Barber need to choose their words a bit more carefully. Oh, and stop publishing hit pieces made to look like ‘news’.
correction: ‘are too stupid’.
darn.