The iPad is Apple’s entry into an entirely new product category, launched January 27th, 2010. The picture below portrays a generic model (the 3G one has an antenna strip across the top):
This page will be mostly a link dump of reviews and opinion pieces regarding it, updated on an irregular basis.
| Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 13 | http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/13/day-1-estimate-120000-ipads-sold/ | That’s a lot of padding on Apple’s regular cash flow. |
| iPad Pre-Orders: For Idiots Only | The contrarian view – rather sad, really. | |
| Mar 12 | iPad Gets New Button: Screen Rotation Lock | Still no sign of a front-facing camera, though – I’d have loved to have that. |
| Feb 10 | iPad Component Costs Leave Room for Price Cuts | Utter balderdash, since there is no way iSupply can justify that $219.35 figure without the device being on the market. |
| Feb 09 | Does the iPhone OS Need Multitasking? | Some people’s fixation with multitasking never ceases to amaze me. |
| Feb 08 | Apple Management: iPad Prices Could Change | On other news, the weather could, too. |
| Survey tries quantifying iPad hype, suggests interest waning | Ah, the utter meaninglessness of statistics. Still, the chart is interesting enough to keep around to compare with actual sales later on:  |
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| Feb 07 | Apple Makes at Least $200 Per iPad Sold: Report | Guesstimates are the new news. |
| Feb 05 | How to compete with iPad | The ironic bit is that if any of the competitors actually read this and get it, then the iPad will still have won. |
| Feb 01 | Is the iPad a Kindle Killer? | A decent point-per-point comparison with the Kindle. |
| iPad Camera rumor becoming a reality? We think so. | Weird, but interesting. | |
| Jan 30 | Hands-on with the Apple iPad – it does make sense | Andy’s view – apparently he isn’t aware of the new shared app data feature in the SDK, but he does have a point: if you can’t handle mail attachments in iWork apps, you can’t really interact with other people work-wise. |
| Jan 28 | iPad About | Stephen Fry writes down his take on the launch event. |
| Jan 27 | Editorial: Engadget on the Apple iPad | A grab-bag of mixed opinions. |
| Jan 27 | iPad: The (attempted) Windows killer | Michael Mace has an intriguing view. |