It has been a very busy Friday in tech, Apple has just seeded a revised Developer Preview to its upcoming Mountain Lion OS for Mac.
Today's the day that many avid iPad fans have been waiting for, and scores of consumers turned out for the overnight queue preceding the worldwide launch this morning.
The nine day wait which Apple imposed upon us at the media event in San Francisco is finally over, with buyers all over the world taking deliveries of their iPad pre-orders, as well as Apple Stores serving customer after customer as the new iPad flies off the shelves. We will need to wait a while until the sales numbers are released so we can see just how successful the new iPad is in the early stages of availability, but all experts predict that the third-generation iPad will break all records.
In amongst all the talk of new iPads and Samsung Galaxy S III's, another product trending in the blogsosphere of late is Apple's MacBook range.
The gadget loving world is currently suffering from a dire case of we need the new iPad syndrome, and will only be cured when the doors finally open and pre-orders finally start to hit our floor mats. For most of the countries around the world that are set to get the new iPad on the first launch day, it is only a few hours to wait until we can hand over our plastic friends to the good people at Apple and let them charge away. However, if you happen to be Australian, then the chances are you may already have collected the new iPad and are currently salivating over the beautiful Retina display.
Apple's new iPad device will not be supporting FaceTime over 4G - at least not initially - despite being faster than Wi-Fi in many cases.
Seven days after the special press event in San Francisco where the iPad 3 was unveiled, the reviews have began pouring in. With the embargo lifted, various top tech and general news sites have unleashed their hands-on opinions on the device, and we have a roundup of the top reviews from the tech pundits we know and love right here.
I wouldn't like to think how many presses, taps and clicks the 'track shipment' option on Apple's website and official app have notched up in the last few days from users who are desperate to find out where their new iPad is. The fact that Apple decided to allow customers to put through pre-orders for this new product launch means that email inboxes lit up all over the world at the beginning of the week with order progress updates advising that the order has been shipped by the company. Unfortunately for excited consumers, it seems that Apple had advised the delivery companies to hold onto the shipments and try their very hardest to make sure they were delivered on the official launch date this Friday.
As well as the obvious introduction of the new iPad, Apple also made what many deemed as a statement of intent towards eventual connected TV by introducing an updated Apple TV device.
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past week, you'll certainly have heard that Apple has showcased the latest addition to its iPad family - set to release at 8AM this Friday.
