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Launching iPad, a mini computer products and this thin truly successful enchant thousands of people in various countries. Crowds of people who want to hook the “hottest gadgets” can be seen everywhere.

Brittle long lines of buyers looking in different cities, from London, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid to Tokyo on Friday, May 28, 2010. They seemed to want to scramble to swipe their credit cards held iPad.

In fact, the shouts and cheers sticking out from the crowd in downtown London, England. The students, professionals and computer enthusiasts cheered when gripping the tiny black box.

“If I am a fan of music, this event is similar when the Lady GaGa album launch in the U.S.,” said comedian Stephen Fry, who is known as the Tweeter biangnya in England.

Earlier this month, Apple Inc., based in Cupertino, California, claims to have sold 1 million units iPad only within 28 days in the United States. On May 10 last, the company began serving iPad orders for foreign markets.

Computer “iPad” looks like the iPhone, but with a larger version. This gadget can be used to send e-mail, make drawings and play games. In fact, the iPad has the potential to save the print media industry – which is struggling from catastrophy – how to hook the reader with the electronic.

The proof, the owners of print media have been utilizing this medium to capture a large number of readers who are willing to pay for content online.

Call it the Financial Times. British newspapers have been launched edition version of the iPad through a press conference at a luxury hotel overlooking the lake, in Geneva, Switzerland.

They also claimed to have downloaded more than 100,000 times in the United States.
Rob Grimshaw, managing director of FT.com. said 20 percent of new subscribers are digital at last week users iPad. “I think it is very profitable for us,” he said.

Besides the UK, iPad also launched in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland.

At Apple stores in Frankfurt, Germany, hundreds of people marched in line to hook the iPad. In fact, some of them coming since early morning at 3:00 o’clock. They want to come early not because he wanted to be first, but fear not miss out.

In 0800, when Apple began opening stores employees, about 450 people had been screaming and clapping. “Actually, I am ashamed to join the queue, but the thing is, tonight this item will be sold out,” said a man who declined to be named told AP Television News.

Strangely, the same situation is also seen in Tokyo, where many people no longer lay with the gadget product, they even have a choice of more sophisticated products than in the U.S..

There, about 1,200 people marched in the Ginza shopping district. They shouted back at Apple stores opened at 08:00. Soon after a burst, while claiming to attack these outlets can not wait to use it.

In Madrid, Spain, a store of this new product claiming iPad immediately sold out in less than three hours.

Araceli Sanchez, one of the interested buyers in Madrid claimed by iPad. The reason, the display is clean, looks smart, and comes with several applications. “Moreover, with the iPad, we can see the stars and constellations in the sky wherever we are.”

In Paris, at the Apple stores are located in the commercial area at the Louvre, the situation is not much different. A software developer, expressed his admiration for the way Garisch iPad. He will wear this stuff to read newspapers and surf the Web.

“It’s magical,” he said. “Even my mother could use it.”

Last March, Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired Magazine show for the first time in public, Wired magazine’s first to be ‘printed’ for iPad.

Now, after the official iPad outstanding, as quoted from Mashable, Wednesday, May 26, 2010, eventually published in Wired Magazine iPad in the application form.

When announced, many predicted that Wired Magazine’s version of the iPad will change the way people read the magazine. And from appearances, it turns out Wired did not disappoint.

At the upcoming June edition of the magazine, there are a lot of interactive content in it. Interactive map of Mars, a variety of content slide shows, videos, and music is also included in the ‘magazine’ is.

However, users may be intimidated by the size of the magazine. With a total capacity of 527MB, the June edition of the magazine content should be downloaded via Wi-Fi than via 3G. ‘Magazine’ was sold at Apple’s App Store for U.S. $ 4.99

Popularity iPad tablet computers in the United States apparently does not affect sales in that country neetbook.

According Knupffer based at the headquarters of Intel, Santa Clara, California USA, the emergence of the Apple iPad not take over the netbook market in the United States. “Previously, many analysts are predicting that. But it did not happen,” said Knupffer.

Last month, research firm IDC’s time to lower the report about the decline in growth in netbooks which allegedly caused by the emergence iPad in the market. The analysis was strengthened by Dell and HP step netbook 10-inch brakes on their sales significantly.

But, Knupffer opinion, iPad and netbooks are different categories and has its own market segment. IPad as more consumers use consumer device, not a productive tool. People using the iPad to watch, games, entertainment and all that nature.

Looking ahead, according Knupffer, in addition to developing the processors in the desktop category, Intel will develop a superior processor in a mobile classroom. “Intel mobile processors will always develop,” he said.

Intel’s Moblin Linux operating system

In fact, he explained, Intel also has established cooperation with Nokia, to work on a Linux-based operating system, which has a short boot time, called Moblin.

When abroad, Knupffer often find the people around him using a portable computer, in Indonesia, he actually met the people around him using mobile devices such as BlackBerry. “At least this is a good tool to introduce computing devices.”