Posts Tagged ‘Apple iPad’

I have a 30 minute commute to work. While driving to and fro I often listen to NPR. One of my favorite is their All Tech Considered show that’s on the air 7:30am on Mondays.  I just heard this NPR article about last weeks Apple News. Apparently as of May 3 Apple has sold a startling One Million iPads! This happened in only the first 28 days! They indicated that now 1 out of 300 Americans own the iPad and are showing it off to their friends. Now Apple’s App store has 12 million apps versus the 1 million they had at the April launch. These stats are incredible. It’s obvious that the iPad is taking off. The wildest thing that struck me is that this data only refers to the WiFi versions of the iPad; the 3G version was just released this past Friday. Read the rest of this entry »

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks you probably haven’t missed Apple’s iPad annoucement. This image was taken from a Wired hands on article. Make no bones about it, the iPad is a d is a 9.7-inch, 1.5 pound wonder! Initial impresssions are that it’s easy to use, the screen is beautiful (1024 by 768 resolution), and very responsive (1GHz custome cpu). It doesn’t come with a physical keyboard; you’ll have to buy that as a seperate optional acccesory. The iPad will be released sometime this spring. Read the rest of this entry »