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Thank god Cablevision and Disney made some progress in their negotiations over retransmit fees for ABC7, otherwise I would have missed Apple's new spot for the iPad. It wasn't bad - but they can and should do much better for this potentially game-changing device.

Apple announced on Friday that the Wi-Fi versions of its long-awaited iPad will arrive April 3 in stores in the United States. The models that can tap into AT&T’s 3G wireless data network will be available in late April.

Beginning March 12, US customers can pre-order both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models from Apple’s online store.

The iPad will be available in Wi-Fi only models on April 3 in the U.S. at the following prices:
$499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB, and $699 for 64GB.

The Wi-Fi + 3G models will be available in late April at the following prices:  
$629 for 16GB, $729 for 32GB and $829 for 64GB.

As reported on Wired's Epicenter blog, Wired Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson announced at the TED conference last Friday that the magazine would be releasing its content for the iPad by summer.

View the demo here:

AllThingsD has a post on a BNET interview about the iPad with Bill Gates. AllThingsD points out that Gates has long been an evangelist for tablet PCs, but that he’s not impressed by Apple’s new variation on the device. Referencing the BNET interview, AllThingsD says: Gates–who evidently finds the iPad neither magical nor revolutionary–diplomatically dismissed it.“You know, I’m a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard–in other words a netbook–will be the mainstream on that,” Gates said. “So, it’s not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, ‘Oh my God, Microsoft didn’t aim high enough.’ It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.’”

How could Bill Gates (and so many others) not understand that the iPad is, first and foremost, a media consumption device? The iPad will only be as good as the media that can be consumed on it and the user experience associated with consuming that media (ease of use, cost, etc). Much of this will be driven by Apple's unmatched iTunes, which offers a near flawless experience for accessing music, movies, TV, audio podcats/books, and soon "physical" books with the launch of iBooks, and, of course, apps/gaming. This is what seperates Apple's products from any other "media gadget." It is also why the iPad cannot be compared with previous incarnations of a tablet device. Those were all focus on offering a PC-like experience, not a media consumption experience (partially due to the fact that digital media simply was not available to be consumed the way it is today).

Read the full AllThingsD post here: http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100210/bill-gates-on-ipad/

Interview magazine is celebrated its 40th anniversary Tuesday night in New York, and in celebrating its past will take a look into the future by unveiling its capabilities on the Apple iPad.  Interview will introduce its 40th anniversary issue, featuring Kristen Stewart on the cover, as well as its December/January 2010 (Penelope Cruz), February 2010 (Jay-Z) and March 2010 (fashion) issues, all "reconfigured, redesigned, and re-imagined for Apple's iPad."

The demo (below) leaves much to be desired.  It appears that Interview on the iPad will be not much more than a replica of the print edition with maybe some additional photography and some imbedded videos. 

Read more at The Huffington Post.

Interview on the iPad demo: