At first when I heard about the iPad I thought it was a HORRIBLE idea. In fact, I even made a Facebook fanpage against it which now has about 250 fans: The iPad? More like the iTampon!.

At the time it just seemed like a giant iPhone, which I already own. I thought it was useless to have everything I already have, minus portability, in just a larger size. As app demonstrations began to surface my thoughts quickly changed. When there is something tons of people are talking about and I want to see all the opinions, like at the launch of the iPhone 3G I would fire up TweetDeck as I could watch multiple streams of info at once. It was so easy to see all the data. The iPhone did it similar, but not all the columns were visible in one view. The screen shots of Tweetdeck for iPad just blew me away. Everything was well presented and nicely shown just like the desktop version. I can imagine myself just sitting around my house and being able to consume information in this whole new way.
The note applications for it also seem amazing, I can use this in school on days when my laptop is not needed.

Still to this day, after over a year of owning an iPhone (First a 3G, now a 3Gs, and now surfacing is the proof of an iPhone 4g) every time I touch the screen I am still amazed at how easy it is. In the words of Steve Jobs, everything “Just Works”.

The Canada release was pushed back a month as they ran out of stock, but that’s no problem. I do plan on picking one up once they are available. I will just get the Wifi one as I can tether with my current 6GB data plan.

What are your thoughts?

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