As the days and hours count down to the launch date of Apple’s iPad, there is no end to the forecasts on
pre-launch, Q2, and 2010 sales etc. of the device. Speculation aside, there is a palpable excitement and anticipation which finds its precedent only in the June 2007 launch of the iPhone. I’m not going to speculate on AAPL’s iPad sales numbers… those are all over the web… I ordered one, and it’s arriving on April 3. But I will tell you this instead.
A couple of weeks ago, I was over at a friend’s place and was relaxing some of the stress she had been enduring, by providing a friendly shoulder massage. I should say at this point that I would consider myself to be fairly good at working the kinks out of a neck, shoulders, backs and upper arms, and this aforementioned friend happens to be an fairly tech-savvy girlgeek. We had been talking earlier in the day about the iPad launch on April 3, and that I’d ordered one for delivery on the launch date. So then, out of the blue and in the middle of the massage, she turned her head around and said… “So which iPad did you order?”
Which said to me that the iPad has already found its way into a way of life, even before either of us, or anyone has really used one, or even held one. It also said to me one of the first Apps I should be buying is Better Massage Techniques should such an app possibly exist!
Check out the guided tour videos Apple posted this week on all the program functionality in the iPad – Keynote, Pages and Numbers look amazing! Oh, and my iPad will be the 32Gb Wi-Fi version accessorized with the dock, keyboard and case. The shipping confirmation e-mail arrived last night. It’s on its way direct from Shenzhen, China.
