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“That is an iPad, a tablet computer from Apple. I’ve had it for a half year now,” MacPhail reports. “On April 3, I stood in line early in the morning at the Apple Store in the Buffalo Galleria along with hundreds of others — many of them Canadian — hoping to score one (or more) of the coveted devices.”
MacDailyNews Take: Uh, five months, Wayne, not six.
MacPhail reports, “It is impossible, unless you own one, to appreciate how engaging, immersive and addictive it can be. When you touch the news, pictures, games and characters the experience becomes as all-encompassing and joyful as finger painting.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We can’t imagine what we did before iPad. We assume we were poking at our tiny, pre-Retina display iPhone screens, pinching to zoom, constantly scrolling, etc., but we’d rather not think about it.
Isn’t that 5 months?
Six months later and still not available to a lot of customers! WTF is up with apple’s production?
Only been 5 months wi-fi and 4 months 3G. So while the point is true, the time span is not. Premature celebration.
Had mine for 2 months now….and find that I pull out my laptop less and less with time. Once another revision comes, I suspect that trend will continue.
Lovely machine.
Once you go iPad. You’ll stop being iMad.
(you’ll never understand until you are an actual OWNER/USER of the iPad)
I think Wayne should use the Calendar app more! 6 months……..
@ Emil:
It’s called “demand”, as in so many people are demanding one that Apple can’t build enough. Great problem to have.
For those that read my story on the Barnes & Noble nook a while back, an update:
My mom got an iPad for her birthday last month, and doesn’t use the nook any more. (surprise >.<) Both my parents are addicted to the iPad. They came over the other day so I could show my mom how to use the Kindle app, and my father was playing Need for Speed on mine. I think it won’t be long before he gets one of his own. They are both completely computer-phobic but have no problem learning to use the iPad.
Good thongs come to those who wait
I hardly touch my new Macbook Pro now, and sadly, I don’t use my iPhone 4 as much as my previous iPhones except when i’m out somewhere that I don’t happen to have my iPad nearby. Because it is 3G, I do usually bring it with me, because that is part of the magic, having the larger screen internet with you everywhere you go, but, often it is in the car, so if i’m in a store etc. I will use the iPhone, or if I need the camera, but the experience is not as enjoyable on the smaller screen now. You can only understand after using an iPad for awhile. Then you realize that iPad is not a big iPod touch, it is the way it was supposed to be, and the iPod touch and iPhone are a chopped down, compromised experience for the sake of mobility, and rightly so, but a less enjoyable experience just the same. What do you think?
My MacBook Pro is being repaired at the moment, I’m in Fuerteventura at the moment with just my iPad and I’m not missing it one bit.
iPad FTW.
Woo, Globe & Mail!
He really shouldn’t be whipping it out in public.
I want one, but I’m not going to buy one until it has a user facing camera. I presume that one will not be able to do video conferencing without a camera. Is that not right?
I’m exercising incredible restraint and waiting until iPad 2 comes out — you just know it’s gonna have a lot of cooler stuff packed in for the same price or less.
Waited on the iPod touch for the second gen and never regretted that purchase.
I have the iPad 3g, I get asked all the time to demo it.
Sadly due to Rogers in Canada not coming through with the iPhone to iPad data sharing plan I have not activated the 3G $40 for 5Gb is just to mush when I am already paying $30 for 6Gb on my iPhone.
Rogers let us share data!!!!
Regarding 6 or 5 months,
The original article (at least now) says “5 months”…
It’s true. I’ve had the 3G for four months, and I can hardly remember what it was like before I had it. . . . And I don’t use it nearly as much as I should.
Recently, on a trip with friends, I offered them the use of my iPad to check their email. They both retorted that they had already checked. I had forgotten that they both had iPods, Touch.
I still think I’ll get a MBP, but it will have to have an SSD.
@ JakeB
I’m not sorry I bought a first gen 3G… It was hard enough waiting that long. But if the iPad 2 has a Retina display I’ll probably get another one. My iPhone 4 makes everything else look a little blurry.
The poor guy’s story was published early. Give the guy a break. I’m sure he knows the difference between 5 and 6 months. Writers often write for specific issue dates of pubs. Editors/Publishers sometimes change publishing dates of stories without telling the writer.
I just got mine, love it!
I tried one in June in Paris and wanted one.
Since they still not on sale in Sweden I drove to the Apple Store in Hamburg, Germany to get my iPad 3G when I saw they where in good supply.
Btw, someone not german bought about ten iPads before me
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But that means the writer is lying, then, if he knowingly is pretending to be in his sixth month of ownership even though it’s his fourth or fifth, just to “sound live” at time of reading it.
The very premise is lost (becomes a lie) then, because it’s the “still-attracting-people’s-attention-at-six-months” factor that is the point of the article.
Writers factor in the delay to print but not in the first person narrative when time is the point of the story.
It’s no “Dewey Defeats Truman” but it’s in the same vein.
I was in Vegas a couple of weeks ago and looked at the iPad for the first time. I wanted to get what I could out of it. While I liked the form factor and the video and the internet experience, I was a bit taken back on two things: resolution of text was a tad blurry and the 2- second delay in switch from portrait to landscape mode. Were these two things not common with other iPads?
iPad replaces my MBP for all portable tasks. Like this one.
I don’t have the iPad yet, waiting for generation 2 hopefully with retina and adorned with various cameras.
I’m torn between the wifi or springing for the 3G. However, the AT&T $25 2GB limit seems limited to me. I know you shouldn’t probably download huge movies via 3G, but for those of you who have the 3G version, is the 2GB AT&T limit a problem for you?