Day 1with the iPad

So I caved and bought an iPad. With all the haters and the comments at it is a waste of money and I sold my soul to Steve Jobs and his brilliant marketing team. The only way that I can defend myself, I figure, is to give a day by day update on my iPad usage relating to both personal and business usage. So day one involved me syncing it up to all my existing iPhone related data that I have collected over the last two years. This process wasn’t as simple as I thought. I got a 64gig 3G model without the data plan. I want to harass my telco at a later date – a subject for a later post. Howeveer since I didn’t have a SIM card ready to go, for the first few tries Itunes insisted that I get a card so it can complete the registration process. Once I clicked past a few pop ups I was finally able to start the syncing process. No dramas there… Except for the fact that it didn’t take my contacts along with it. Turns out it isn’t done by default. First micro fail. The rest of day one was basically the honeymoon period. Wowed by the apps, blinded with the glossiness, and spent more time touching glass than raindrops. Day 2 is all business. Stay tuned to see how the iPad goes at the office. Regarding the typing – this whole post was done on the pad and I have unusually large fingers and hands and whilst I would not do it 10 hours a day as my work horse, I will do one of he later posts with my Bluetooth keyboard.

Sent from my iPad