The iPad Cometh

UPS delivering the iPad

This morning all I could think about was UPS don’t fail me now.  Nervous with anticipation I left the house to my two jacks and husband with instructions to give the UPS man 15 minutes of fame.  Took off to my usual Saturday morning yoga class where shavasana was truly a mental test. Your not supposed to think about anything but your breath. Well sorry folks, it was inhale, iPad, exhale, iPad…

Walked into the house and there was the brown box sitting on the kitchen table with a big grin on my husband’s face. Woohoo! UPS delivers!

I was a late adopter to the iPhone, using my Razr as long as I could before I finally couldn’t stand it anymore. I was a Verizon gal, so the jump was a cautious one. But as soon as I had the experience of my very own iPhone, I understood what I was missing all that time. I made sure that it wasn’t going to happen again. So when Mashable posted that preorder was March 12^th for the iPad, I marked it on the calendar .

Now I have to admit I was one of those who initially had that “iPad”? reaction to its name.  Certainly I was not alone as itampon started to trend on twitter.  I am over it now, however , the great news is that the hullabaloo over the name increased awareness of a charity for young women in Uganda. I donated yesterday as  I encourage you to.. (check out the full story here with details how to donate on Blogher)

“So what does it do?” is a big question from my friends.  My short time of playing with it allows me to say it’s a beautiful e-reader, a gorgeous picture to watch Netflix video on demand and a large screen for tweeting using Tweetdeck. The biggest disappointment comes from facebook, as other apps made it to the deadline, we are forced to use the iPhone or web browser version.

As you can imagine, iPad madness consumed Twitter over the past 24 hours. Martha Stewart tweeted “Look what the Easter Bunny brought over today! Begins with an “IP” showing us a picture of her iPad.  Robert Scoble tweeted and shot live video from a California apple store line. One of his many interesting tweets…

@Scobleizer: Why would Apple co-founder @stevewoz need to stand in line? I talked w/ Woz earlier and he says “Cause the line is fun.”

And tweets all morning long included painfully waiting for the UPS truck to glorious iPad thoughts dancing in people’s heads…

@cc_chapman: Today is iPadurday….

@justin: Already awake. It really is nerd Christmas.

In a nutshell, it is magical. Steve Jobs got that right. What are your thoughts?  Are you a second generation person or did you convert like me, as they say, the early adopter?

Jackie giving the iPad a test drive reading the WSJ