The delay announcement came. The iPad wasn’t coming to Canada until the end of May (28th). So, we just had to sneak one in early. We’ve been using it for about about a month now and it’s pretty much what we expected: awesome display, very thin, fast, and a really long battery life – so much so that you can turn he battery percentage of and have one less thing to worry about.
There’s some big-name apps out of the gate, one being WordPress which I’m using to write this post. The keyboard in landscape mode is great, actually. We’ll post some thoughts on the iPad experience later.
Now we can start getting a sense of how get in early playing with the new UIs and seeing what people come up with, getting a real feel for the device. Where we’ve been working on some iPhone apps over the past few months, I can tell you now the variations in iPad apps are much more than the iPhone with so much more screen real estate. I think with the lack of a constraint it’s going to make developing apps more challenging in a different way, as the possibilities are exponential, but simplicity is still key.
And for the Web side of things, the iPad is great for surfing and reading. Most sites designed to Web standards should work just fine on an iPad, but it’s still helpful (and fun) to check it out yourself.
