Earlier today, Tim Cook revealed that sales of the third installment of his company's iPad tablet were the fastest to date, although refused to disclose exactly how many of the Retina-toting devices had been sold.
Since Apple announced the new iPad nearly two weeks ago, the tech world has been inundated with questions - many of which have been answered with the subsequent release.
Even though the specs of the new iPad had been documented by Apple upon the launch on March 7th, it's almost impossible to gauge the true performance of the new hardware until it's unboxed, charged-up, and pitched against other, similar products on the market.
Apple today announced that its $100 billion pile of money is to be used, not for buying Twitter, Facebook or even Google, but to initiate a stock buy back and to offer dividends to existing share owners.
Devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch have an almost unlimited array of features, and with every next-generation release, that feature set is expanding through the use of more advanced hardware and more intuitive and intelligent software. You only need to look at the original iPhone to see the progress through the years, with the addition of new hardware sensors and faster processors along with serious advancements made within iOS.
While there's no shortage of mouse and trackpad apps available for our mobile devices, any app updated to take advantage of the gorgeous new Retina display of the iPad are certainly worth our attention.
Those of us partial to a jailbreak - moreover, an untethered jailbreak - have been well and truly spoiled for choice today. Although i0n1c demonstrated his method only a few hours ago, it can now be confirmed that there are three - yes, three - total methods of jailbreaking iOS 5.1 on 3rd-gen iPad, with the third jailbreak method coming from Grant Paul and Paul Griffin.
Although the Retina display of the new iPad is inarguably the highlight of the new features, the 5 megapixel iSight camera certainly plays a significant supporting role in proceedings.
Now that the new iPad is finding its way into the hands of those who were either willing to stand outside their local Apple Store or to hit refresh on the online equivalent, everyone is asking the same question: just how much better than the iPad 2 is this new, third generation version?
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.
