These guys over at Soundman are pretty hillarious. This instal is pretty sweet and I am incredibly jealous! I want this in my car so bad. You have everything you need at your fingertips. My favorite part is when he goes to Pandora. I’ll have to check back in with them to see how everything works when he gets the iPad incorporated into his sound system.

“There’s a scratch on my dash so we’re not going to show it…” haha

With the first iPad release on Saturday, April 3, 2010, there are already some palpable underlyings of an Apple backlash. Is the Steve Jobs’ “wunderkind” going to have enough juice to gain a share of the laptop/web book market?

Looking into my magic eight ball….All signs point to ‘Yes’.

Apple sold 300,000 iPads, 250,000 iBooks and 1,000,000 apps on the iPad Launch Day, so all in all I would say that Apple’s new toy had a fairly successful debut.
When asked about the success of the iPad Launch Jobs said, “It feels great to have the iPad launched into the world—it’s going to be a game changer. iPad users, on average, downloaded more than three apps and close to one book within hours of unpacking their new iPad.”

The iPad 3G + WiFi will be available in late April and will retail for $629 for 16GB, $729 for 32GB and $829 for 64GB. The 3G + WiFi model has a good chance of surpassing the large numbers set by the iPad WiFi this weekend.

iPad Launch

With the U.S. release date just around the corner, I thought I would take some time to talk about the, soon to be ubiquitous, iPad. I read the four page spread that Time Magazine gave the iPad and thought the interview with Steve Jobs was very well done by Stephen Fry. I have also gone back to check out the iPad Keynote Speech from January (broken up in several parts). I think this is really a technology for people to get excited about. The possibilites on this device are incredible; from an educational standpoint to a gaming stand point, there are so many useful applications to the iPad.

With that being said, would I purchase the first generation of iPad…not likely. But I will say, give this product nine months and I think we will see a substantial A.) price decrease and B.) increase in user interface and application capability. Is it possible that the general public will not take to the iPad immediately? Maybe…but I can remember a time when not everyone was walking around with an iPod in their pocket.

Either way, I see this as a win-win-win scenario. Win-Apple get’s a new product release that is generating a great deal of buzz with the potential to do unlimited commerce from the device. Win-Apple fanatics get a new toy to play with and the satisfaction of telling people that they, do in fact, own an iPad. Win-The less fanatical Apple fans will get an even better version of this device in nine months to a year.

In the end, I really do this that the capability of the iPad will turn the people who think, “What’s the big deal? It looks like a big iPhone…” into loyal users because the technology really is that good.