IGot my lifetime allowance

I was in London today on business and happened to be near the Apple store on Regent Street…. which was a mistake. Well, not a mistake, just expensive!

My baby ipad - born today!

Although there was a queue, the security staff suggested it was a 10 minute wait. So I did – and promptly became the owner of my lifetime limit of Ipads! One wifi and one 3GS model. Mine is the latter.

The helpful Apple man who assisted me with my purchase said that some people had queued from 12 midday on Thursday! By the time the shop opened yesterday there were 1,500 people in the queue. He was not sure how many units had been delivered or sold by 2.30pm, but someone else suggested 10,000!

What do I think? I think it an amazing bit of kit. I had thought about a Kindle, but was worried about the limits. But this toy has viable and useful Apps. The screen resolution is HD TV quality. It is fast and has flash memory.

It is like my iphone, but a bit bigger. I am yet to find out about battery life- but they are suggesting 8 hours.

I can see that my trusty little MacBookPro may become redundant. Although I won’t be able to have my entire itune library on it – it is aroung 150Gb ‘small’ and my ipad is only 32gB.

Once again, Steve Jobs find a niche in the market and exploit it. They make products that you want – even if you don’t need them! And yesterday Apple overtook Microsoft as the biggest technology company.

Call me a geek if you like – but I love it!

UPDATE

There’s an essential accessory for the ipad here.