Much hyped iPad hits the market
Apple's heavily hyped iPad went on sale Saturday in the United States. Excited customers were crowding to get their hands on what some see as a "game changer" in the computer industry. The Apple flagship store in New York greeted hundreds of people who had waited since just after dawn. Many of the shoppers were from outside the United States, which is initially the only country to sell the touch-screen tablet, retailing at between $499 and $829.
AFP
Even Internet leader Google threw its weight behind the iPad, rolling out a version of its free Web-based email service for Apple's latest creation.
And while the iPad is seen as a threat to Kindle electronic readers, Amazon.com on Friday released an application that lets people read digital books from the Kindle Store on the Apple gadgets.