Why I love the iPad

Well Mondays are usually dedicated to my iPhone App of the Week articles but I had to share the good news.  I finally bought an iPad!  It’s funny, I had been waiting years for the iPad to be released, I knew it would be the perfect device for me as soon as I started using my iPhone.  Then, after waiting for what seemed like eons, Steve Jobs finally gave us a look at the invention we’d all been waiting for.  My initial reaction disappointment, where was the front facing camera (or any camera for that matter)?  What about multi-tasking? Video camera?  How long do we have to wait to get the WiFi+3G model?  Then I realized, oh yes, this is the first generation, seemingly devoid of all the features we’ve been waiting for on the iPhone and strangely similar to the feature set in the original iPhone.  Of course, the iPad was bound to follow the same progression as the iPhone.  ‘OK’ I thought, ‘I’ll just hold out ‘til the next generation’  I figured since I wasn’t going to get the experience of waiting in line for the initial release and was able to wait a few months to even get my hands on a 3G model why not just wait a few more months for the next gen iPad?  Well I underestimated the wait, it wouldn’t be another few months, it would be a complete year at the least, before the second generation iPad was released.  There was no way I would be able to wait that long.  I finally walked into an Apple store and put my name on the reservation list, 7 business days later I received my email letting me know my iPad was at the store waiting for me.  It was love at first bootup.