Apple made its iPad tablet PC available for preorder through its Apple Website on the morning of March 12, three weeks ahead of its April 3 release. While iPads with Wi-Fi will be released on that date, the devices with both Wi-Fi and 3G capabilities will ship in late April. Some 150,000 apps will be available for the iPad at launch, according to Apple, and third-party analytics suggest that developers have gravitated towards building apps for the upcoming platform. Apple’s App Store will feature 300,000 apps by the end of 2010, according to IDC.
– Apple made its much-hyped iPad tablet PC available for
preorder on the morning of March 12, three weeks before the devices actual
release. The iPads success or failure will likely influence, in a substantial
way, whether the nascent movement to make tablet PCs a common consumer item
becomes an e…