| Apple just announced that their long awaited iPad | | | | buzz. Notice all those ads for iPad giveaways. They |
| Tablet will be available to the public on April 3rd, with | | | | really aren't scams. |
| "pre-order" starting in one week. Will the iPad Tablet | | | | Sure you may have to subscribe to a couple of |
| command the kind of lines and packing out for a | | | | magazines and take a few surveys, but in the end |
| couple of days on line, that the iPhone did? | | | | you'll get your free iPad. This is where Apple is genius. |
| Probably not, but the Apple is trying to use it to | | | | Instead of spending millions on TV ads, they are |
| boomerang an existing niche market, the small tablet | | | | approaching this launch in other ways. Instead they |
| PC market, into competition with the laptop and note | | | | are employing the strengths and reach of the |
| book market, to some extent. Apples expects there | | | | internet and combined with their own reputation and |
| will be a downward migration from laptop users into | | | | are getting the "buzz out on the iPad Tablet. |
| iPad users, there buy increasing the size of the tablet | | | | I personally believe it will be a hit, and a big one long |
| market, and providing Apple with a lower barrier to | | | | term for Apple, who knows maybe the original |
| entry. | | | | version iPad will become collectors items, but I doubt |
| There has been so much hype over this and rightly | | | | it, at least not to the Apple faithful out there. |
| so. Pat of Apple's brilliance is the way it promotes | | | | Instead, if the iPad succeeds in gaining market share, |
| and markets their products. Surely the style and | | | | but also growing the tablet pc market, then it will be |
| functionality of the products are the cutting edge | | | | far ahead of any competitors, just as the iPhone is |
| into the market, but apple knows how to create a | | | | today. |