IGot IPad

Guess who is the happy owner of a brand new IPad ?.  I got an early birthday gift from CB last wednesday. I love every bit of IPad and the WIFI amazingly faster compared to our laptops.

I have never felt this excited about tech gadgets lately. Having worked for telecommunication/semiconductor giants , I am trained to find the flaws quickly. IPad is so amazing though fewer users has reported some issues, overall experience overrides any technical flaws. Apple has taken a giant leap in the industry giving priority to customer experience - "An amazing user experience". The form factor is sooooooo cool and I am sure it setting a a standard for future laptop GUI.

I felt this excited about a hardware/software product twenty years back when Microsoft introduced MS-Office.  Having used Wordstar, Lotus 1-2-3 and Dbase III Plus couple of years prior to using MS office, I personally know that pain of using those products. Users need to remember million commands just to type document, or create a worksheet or worked with data storedin a comma separted structure in a file (still so many apps use comma separated data and it's such a pain to parse the file ) . And only people trained can only use those products. MS office came and changed the way normal users used productivity software. "Easy and simple" were words to describe MS experience. Well, today MS has completely deviated from this philosophy and the new OS comes with so many unwanted software bundled into core OS which the users hardly use.

Qualcomm BREW platform had mobileshop even before apple introduced iStore. Have you ever paid attention to the mobileshop when you bought new ringtone or a game app from phone especially CDMA phone running BREW ? Probably NO. Mobileshop or latest one called (mshop) has such amazing business model and storefront to sell such apps where the apps can be upgraded over air and doesn't require internet .  As a person who has worked on BREW mobileshop /mShop and knowing the technology behind it , qualcomm was not able to woo the customers like Apple iStore (I mean billion of customers around the world since CDMA technology is from qualcomm) . I hope they attract great innovators like Apple. I loved working for qualcomm .

Apple has proved yet again amazing technical innovations can succeed even in the middle of recession. Check out the Apple IPad review here .