So it's finally dropped and it's hot. Once my amazing 12inch powerbook finally breaks (6 years and running) I might think about getting one.
It's becoming almost an echo on the internet of Apple Fan boys who want to buy the pad but already have everything else Apple has setup for us. I mean with a desktop, laptop, and iphone I just don't have a place for the pad in my life right now. Maybe sometime in the future it will be different but my laptop has been so sturdy and solid for it's life that I can't part with it. Like a trusted horse it's held it's own and remained relevant for exactly the tasks an ipad would be used for.
Either way the pad is beautiful. Looking forward to future iterations where we can see a camera, lower price point, more storage. I always like to buy on the 2-4th gen of an apple product so they can work any kinks out on gen 1 & 2.
Really fascinating to watch the stock ride this ipad ride. it was up near 210 a share before the announcement and at the end of trading on the week it had dipped all the way down to 192! In general it's been a wild right for the stock in the last 52 weeks. I think the range on it is somewhere around 52-210 a share! Wild ride but if you get on and off at the right stops a lot of profit to be had.