Its been a heck of a week for the iPad, released just under one week ago and what a week its been.  Starting out with the hype of new videos being added to the apple website showing what the new iPad can do.  I have to admit that it does look a really good product from the videos.

Within 24 hours of its release the security had been break and online was pictures of a jail broken iPad!  Which is pretty good going to create a hack that quickly and display the iPad being connected to through telnet / ssh.  Have a look at theregister.co.uk review of this break and the pictures.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/06/ipad_security/

Following the jailbreak a couple of days later came the full information about what was under the hood of the iPad thanks to iFixit and there iPad Teardown.  I would highly recommend reading the article that they have published because its really interesting how apple manage to fit everything inside such a small case.

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-Teardown/2183/1

The CPU was also xray’d after ifixit managed to get it out of the ipad.

Sadly the week ended with alot of complaints coming in from the leading edge users with them having problems connecting to there wireless networks.  Unfortunately that was the end of the complaints, there was rumours that the ipad if left on running would run ok but over time slow down to a complete stop which does not sound good.  The final reported problems were problems sync with iTunes.

As a software tester by day its amazing that some of these faults have got out, but I can certainly understand how it happens.  Fingers crossed Apple will be on the ball and get all these problems sorted out, because the iPad does look like a great product.  Do I want one…. I think the jury is still out yet.  Will have to go to an apple store and have a play with one and see how good it is.  The iPhone has been a great product and just gets better with more apps, however there are still some things that I do not like about the way apple have stopped non-apple auth’d apps onto it.

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