Are You Pre-ordering Your iPad Today?

John tell us five reasons because of which any one should buy iPad.

First of all I would like to see whether this one is going to help me in my business or not. If this one will help than there is no loss to investing on this

Ipads are are waste of space... if you want to go on the internet and play games, then get a mac, or pc.... if you need a phone get the iphone...

to me the ipad is just one big iphone...

I don't think I'll be ordering one today ... or ever .. not until they get their act together and fix a few things in their platform, like better support for notifications, multi-tasking and start playing nice with other operating systems too.

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no need to pre-order.....:)

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I think its not so amazing product….:DD

Apple will make a ton of money on this thing, but I think its gonna flop.

I picked up two 3G's. Why I bought one is not to read books or play games. For the same reason I bought a SL550 AMG a little while back; I bought because I wanted to play with something new, and it sounds nice to kick back on the couch and browse the internet with a overgrown iphone IMO.

You get my email last week John?

I pre-ordered mine. I just couldn't resist it. Apple makes such quality products and as a business professional I know I can get a lot of use out of it.

"Majority of JC readers are into IPAD"...I meant to say that "Majority of JC readers are NOT into IPAD."

And I am also not pre ordering. so is it gonna be only JC? :)

Majority of JC readers are into IPAD, and yes I also don't think it will be a hit. Its all about publicity/media. 51,000 orders in 2 hours is not a big deal for Apple.
Those who have enough money/love for new devices have no problem with buying this gadget.
On the other hand people think that IPAD is similar to laptop...Please note that IPAD lacks some stuff including a webcam, etc...Apple is also not stupid..they want to make it different than a laptop.
IPAD has some use for business profesionals. but as long as its not based on Adobe product.
Again, I think its not so amazing product....
For John Chow, its not a big deal to acquire one, so he will defend as much as he can...:)He cares only if you support his idea.....At least thats what I m feeling...

Cool product, although with that glossy screen you can forget about reading e-books in any sort of sunlight conditions. And I don't buy version 1.0 of anything.

What excites me about the iPad is the few demos I've seen of using it as a control surface for other devices, like film colour correction, live-event video mixing, etc.

Still disappointed that it's not an actual computer and we're stuck with the AppStore paradigm but it'll do until Google comes up with something better.

Wish I had enough spare cash to just go out and buy some Apple stock because John is probably right. Apple will more than likley dominate e-books in years to come, though probably not to same the extent as music.

We in the UK need to wait though another few weeks for release and price conformation.

its still not launched in Pakistan

Like many of the commentors I will wait until Apple works all the bugs out of the ipad. I never buy first release of anything.

thanks for this great post but soon i gonna buy macbook.:))

I didn't pre-order one, but I can't wait to hear users' feedback once the units are actually in people's hands.

It's a cool gadget to me but I don't think I will buy it now. Probably will wait and see how's general users' review first.

I think it's way too much hype. It's 1/2 the functionality of a netbook, like the ASUS EEEPC, for 2x the price.

Don't think I'm going to get an iPad. I just got an iMac to go with my MacBook Air and my iPod. Why do I need an iPad?

No pre-order for me. I'm going to wait to see if I win one from Jonathon Volk first and if I don't then I may order one.

The iPad is a great device that will improve and make life and tasks more easier but it will never kill or replace the netbook. You can find my reasons in ' Four Reasons Why the iPad Can’t Kill Netbook: http://www.zakshow.com/2010/02/11/four-reasons-why... '

I am not going for it...as I know there will be few hiccups and in few months the price will come down and people are already talking about new ones which camera and flash...so..I will wait...

I'm not going to preorer now. I think that I am going to wait until someone gives a good review of it.

Great post John! I think the ipad is very cool, but I no need for a tablet right now.

I am not.

I did get a Macbook. My friend is going to get the iPad. I'm the programmer, so I can run it in an emulator and develop. He doesn't program, so it will be a good tradeoff.

No I'm not, as I see no need for a tablet right now, and I sure as hell am not buying it just for the sake of it. As I frankly don't give a shit about latest things.
Buy what you need and if it happens to be that you would benefit from a tablet then go for it as it will be a hell of a lot smoother to carry that thing around then a netbook.

I see a great market for it, for casual "computer" users, just browsing the net, social media, talking to friends who sure as hell do not need a stationary computer, and would find a tablet more comfortable to be using while chilling on the sofa or in bed than a netbook slowly cooking your balls.

Never take investment advice from a guy that buys four $500 paper weights and then brags about it :P

I don't understand why anyone would want one of these, the iPad is destined to be a big "iFlop"... come on, people have cell phones and laptops to carry around -- who wants yet another thing to worry about? The trend is consolidation, not addition... Apple finally has it wrong.

the ipad is the future.... Can you imagine holding a complete library+workstation+creative tools etc .... danmm apple does it again... on top of that they already have a huge developers fan base and apps to work right now….

It’s over…. Apple win a new market….

So John :P Now you're also doing investment advice? :)

Jenna Alberts

ipad is a cool gadget...hope to buy one soon

Way to state the obvious, John. Didn't Apple make it perfectly clear that one of the big uses of the iPad is for books? Furthermore, there has been so much news since the launch about the publishers getting on board with the device. There have even been demos of textbooks for use on the iPad. So your idea of what Apple's plans are for the iPad are precisely what Apple told us their plans are. Great observation!