Today is iPad Day!
As if I have to tell anyone. Apple released the WIFI version today – the mobile-network enabled version will be out later.
This is going to be a very hot device, as I mentioned when it was announced. That said, I am waiting for version 2. I expect that the iPad will have a camera in the next version, and I am sure that there will be a few bugs here and there that will be addressed.
I think the iPad is a transition point. We will start seeing all kinds of uses for this device, not just consumer entertainment, but productivity uses. I wrote about a few in my earlier post. I am looking forward to seeing how people put the iPad to work. I am looking forward to seeing how the iPad’s interface and usability encroaches on the traditional machines.
The iPad is the spearhead, not the end-all. There will be more to follow, from Google, HP, Sony, and others. People who have issues with the iPad (its lack of Flash, its use of the Apple App Store, for two) will have other devices with similar capabilities soon, just as there are phones out there that are similar to the iPhone.
Today is the start of it. It all starts today.
