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Anyone had a "Hey! That's an iPad!" moment?

at a little league game this passed Saturday...after the fourth person asked about it I had to put it away, it was distracting from the game :eek:
 
r0k said:
I've had that happen quite a bit. People are asking me if this could work for them. I think the biggest misconception is that the iPad can work like a computer. I tell them not to expect it to work as a computer. If I could make peace with this onscreen keyboard, I'd find it a lot easier to wait for Apple to address issues like the lack of a filesystem. It's not often I'm the guy with an expensive new gadget and while I don't regret buying the iPad and I do like it, I might opt to take mine back and wait for features to make it work better handling files.

We took a train trio a few years ago and Amtrak rented us a movie player that had dozens of films on the hard drive. We paid the rental and the kids loved it. They especially love watching harry potter three in their compartment that looked not unlike the one in the movie. I thought about buying something similar that would allow them to watch movies on the road but I never imagined paying $500 for such a device. The iPad is more than a movie player but without a credible file system it's not much more than a movie player. I've got a few days left to decide to keep it. I've considered taking it back but I'm leaning toward keeping it. I don't make a particularly enthusiastic iPad ambassador when people see me with it. I don't make those magical comments and I'm up front with them about it's limitations. If people ask me about mine and still want one, they will likely keep it. If they ask a less objective user, they might find they are led to some assumptions that don't pan out.
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So you believe the lack of a file system is the reason the iPad is essentially nothing more than a movie player, and you tell other people that also will apply to them?

A file system? Really? What files do you need to look at so often? I've never once had the word "files" cross my mind since I got my iPad on launch day.
 
I am a work study in the presidents office at the college I go to. The executives were all going to lunch this one day and saw me using mine at work. They all gathered around as I showed them some of the features the ipad has. They were pretty amazed by the capabilities of it.
 
Easter iPad

On Easter Sunday, one of our church's under pastors spotted me on the back row with the iPad. "Is that what I think it is?" Next thing I know I was surrounded by five pastors (all of them Mac geeks) asking me questions, ooing and ahhing. Finally one of the under pastors tapped the senior pastor on the shoulder saying, "Shouldn't we start the Easter Service?"
 
This has happened to me so many times haha I'm in college right now and there was this one time in which I was sitting outside on a bench just to do some basic web browsing and check my email when everybody who was passing by just stopped for at least 2 minutes and asked me, "hey, is that an iPad??!?!"

Even people who i don't know started coming at me and say things like "ohhh hey I heard you got an iPad!!!"

It's pretty entertaining because most of the time I have to show them a quick tech demo of the device. :D

But I just can't help it lol I'm a geek at heart.
 
barefeats said:
On Easter Sunday, one of our church's under pastors spotted me on the back row with the iPad. "Is that what I think it is?" Next thing I know I was surrounded by five pastors (all of them Mac geeks) asking me questions, ooing and ahhing. Finally one of the under pastors tapped the senior pastor on the shoulder saying, "Shouldn't we start the Easter Service?"
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Hahaha! That really amused me! That's really cool and funny. :)
 
I already saw a classmate with one and I doubt he was taking notes. ;) It looked smaller than I imagined - I haven't seen one up close yet. I expect more students to be carrying them around this fall.
 
barefeats said:
On Easter Sunday, one of our church's under pastors spotted me on the back row with the iPad. "Is that what I think it is?" Next thing I know I was surrounded by five pastors (all of them Mac geeks) asking me questions, ooing and ahhing. Finally one of the under pastors tapped the senior pastor on the shoulder saying, "Shouldn't we start the Easter Service?"
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After serving 28 years as our Sr.Minister, he has decided to take a smaller church and one of our members gave him a 64 gig iPad as a gift. The funny thing is he has always been a Windows person and laughed at the other staff ministers for using Mac's. I saw him earlier today and I asked him about his new toy and he said he loved it, so I'm sure he will be an all Mac "convert" very soon.
 
i did a presentation about it for my speech class. and demoed it. the whole class was shocked! (it was the first monday of release)

my professor asked to see it after class and shoed everyone away that had questions haha

today she told me she had bought one.

my job here is done
 
My first time was at a Starbucks in Boystown (on the north side of Chicago). I was there with the bf having some coffee, and we were doing some research on some companies that he's applying for jobs at, and there were two girls at the table behind me, both working on MacBook Pros. They looked over and saw the iPad, and they both got up and came over and said the obligatory, "OMG, is that an iPad?" So I showed them some of the stuff, and they seemed to be in lust. lol. Then about 10 minutes after that, another guy came up and totally geeked out over it. He asked if he could lift it up, and he said he had expected it to be heavier. Then he said something along the lines of, "Wow, I can't wait to see what other companies come out with along these lines, and the competition begins!"

On another note...a lot of the Dominick's grocery stores around here have a Starbucks inside of them. I think I've started to take it for granted!
 
Several people at work have asked to see it. From direct co-workers to janitorial staff. It seems to get a lot of attention (obviously).

I've also used it while waiting for my kids while they're at their gymnastics class. Can't see them the whole time, so most of the parents have books, laptops, phones, etc. I had my iPad (tethered to my Motorola Droid). Got lots of comments and questions.
 
I brought it to school today at least 30 people wigged out "OMFG THATS AN iPAD LET ME TOUCH IT CAN I TOUCH IT". I'm not sure I'm going to bring it tomorrow, its really annoying, I just want to type my notes and read BBC News in peace.
 
The day after I got mine I went to Olive Garden with my family and was letting my nephew play with one when I was asked by some people if I liked it or not.
 
darngooddesign said:
That's nothing, try having a 2G iPhone just after launch day.
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Right there with ya on that one.
Had a waitress at the restaurant where I was eating fall all over me and my iPhone the day after launch day 3 years ago.
Fortunately, she was very pretty, too. So I made sure to let her take a nice, long look. :cool:
 
Get it all the time. I turned the entire staff at my job onto the iPhone and now they all are saying they want the iPad.
 
Just had one a few hours ago... studying for my Pol Sci 101 final (in half a hour LOL) and noticed at a table a few metres away a guy had an iPad. I couldn't stop staring. It's true for me what others have said; it seems larger in person.

Rather neat (and maybe a bit sad?) that I had a moment of "This is the closest I've ever been to owning one..." =P
 
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