I'm not a big fan of the iPad but for reasons unknown, I always keep tabs on whatever is going on for it, maybe subconsciously I want one but the no Flash Player support thing by Apple pisses me off. Ok, so the 82nd Academy Awards/Oscars took place tonight, and Apple were lucky enough to set free the 1st iPad advert in front of the eyes of millions, and it wasn't a bad job, if knew nothing about the iPad I'd probably get one after seeing this ad.
The advert was just 30secs long, showed off a few features of the iPad like my personal favorite, the ebook reader. The animations when skipping a page looks really neat and the reading display looks sharp, I already see many folks dumping their current reader for this, especially the ones who went out and bought a black & white ebook reader. Anyway, the biggest thing to be noticed in this advert is the April 3rd release of the Apple iPad, Apple stores around the U.S will be sucked into Apple fanboy hysteria and we'll be reporting on the carnage when it happens.
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