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...iPad arrived at 10:30 a.m. E.T. on the day it was supposed to, Saturday, April 3. I remember the time because I had just looked impatiently at my clock, wondering, Where is it?, when the UPS man buzzed my doorbell. Perhaps it wasn't quite like the birth of a child - this baby has got to perform tricks immediately, and there's precious little time to grow...
...sure the website gets fed with stories.) With the publishing industry in a depression, Apple's latest innovation (or feat of technological repackaging) has been hailed as a potential savior: the entry point for print to become a whole new medium while preserving its essential identity. Since TIME's iPad app was also debuting on Saturday, it would be the first app I would download. (Get TIME's iPad...
...such a heralded contraption, the iPad came packaged in next to nothing: a box with little ostentation, save for an image of what you'd see when you opened it; the machine itself, prophylactically sealed against the elements; a cable; a plug. The last two components were tucked in niches in the plastic casing, which helped insulate the contents to protect against jarring. I tried prying open the casing to see if there was anything more. Nothing. Except a small, thin envelope with a little key that ... Sorry, that's from Alice in Wonderland. I'm getting my fantasies confused...
...things) and follow the instructions from that point onward. A little hubristic, I thought, this pointed refusal to trumpet on arrival. But a half-hour after the unsurprising ritual ("Agree?" "Continue") of synching the latest of my Apple products to its desktop ancestor and uploading my iTunes library, my iPad was ready. It was as if I had known it all my life...
...iPad is much, much bigger than the Touch, and like the Touch only partially abled when away from wi-fi (a version of the iPad that connects to AT&T's 3G network will ship in about a month). But the extra real estate does make a difference. The Touch was convenient. The iPad is intimate. Its weight, though only about a pound and a half, gives it gravity and a sense that it should be more than simply useful. (See the unveiling of Apple's iPad...