20,000 miles for an iPad at Fifth Ave NYC

I have to admit, the first 10,000 miles (my flight to NY last Tuesday) weren’t very comfortable. Let’s just say the plane was fully booked and I was allocated one of the last two seats. But thankfully the next 10,000 will be a different story. I do have a better seat, but the thing that will really make the difference is at last having an iPad in my hot little hands. That’s what I came here for after all!

After waiting in the queue since 1.30am, I was very excited to open the box but even more excited to get the device out and install The Early Edition on it. To finally be able to test our iPad app on a real-life device was very cool, if not a bit nerve-wracking. All in all it worked well and I managed to impress a few journos and Apple staff which was fun.

My first impressions of the iPad were that it was smooth. Yes the glass is smooth, but that’s not what I mean… It’s just a smooth device. Apps spring open and the interface responds to gestures in a very refined and spritely way. You can tell that details matter to Apple to a degree that very few of their competitors can match. That’s not to say everything is perfect in iPad v1. But to be honest I’ve barely touched the surface (excuse the pun). I’d like to spend a lot more time going through the finer details of each new app that Apple have developed and some of the amazing new apps from developers.

It’s just as well I’ve got 10,000 miles left to do just that.