Rotating Knives » Apple http://www.rotatingknives.com Thoughts On How to Keep Architecture From Killing People Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:19:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 iPad Launch Day Zero http://www.rotatingknives.com/2010/04/03/ipad-launch-day-zero/ http://www.rotatingknives.com/2010/04/03/ipad-launch-day-zero/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:12:34 +0000 David http://www.rotatingknives.com/2010/04/03/ipad-launch-day-zero/ Well, the day is here. I find myself sitting in a folding chair, drinking a free Starbucks and waiting to pick up my reserved iPad. It’s an interesting place to be. It’s not quite a carnival atmosphere, but you can feel the excitement and anticipation in the line. It’s hard to blame them. This thing has been SO expertly hyped over the past few weeks that it’s hard to be here and not feel a little tingle in the belly.

(The Apple staff just came out of the store doing a little clapping cheer.)

I am eager to get my hands on the device, and I truly believe it will be a game changer, but I’m a skeptic by nature. I still love my Windows 7 PC. I still love coding .NET applications. I don’t know if this device can take the place of a good laptop, but I know it will be tremendously useful to me. More when I get some hands on.

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