1 of the last iPads in the store…

Following my purchase last Friday, I showed it to 1 of my clients on Tuesday who fell in love with it within 60 seconds…he loved the keyboard (although all he typed was his name), he loved the email system (all he saw was a test account that I set up and a email I sent him that said “Test from Andrew’s iPad”) he just had to have one…only problem, he is flying out this Saturday, and wants one before he goes. By the end of the day I was assigned this task: Find an iPad that I can buy before Saturday, and let me know of any accessories/apps/add-ons that I may need. So then started the search.
Again, starting at JB HiFi, they had a couple of the 64GB Wifi +3G models lefts ($1048), and were expecting a new shipment of others in the coming weeks…coming weeks! We wanted one now. I then preceded with a bunch of other “electrical” retailers such as the Good Guys and Harvey Norman to hunt down another iPad…no luck, I got the same old answer “We don’t stock those, and don’t know if we even will”.
The report back to the client went something like this:
The only place that has one left in town is JB Hifi for $1048.
Since you are flying out you will need at least a cover for them, they are about $25-$40 from JB Hifi.
All you mail/calendar/contacts will sync, just like you iPhone (The great thing about MS Exchange servers).
Apps you might want to buy are: Pages ($12.99) and Numbers ($12.99).

Later that night I received this email:

Hi Andrew

We managed to get one from JB Hi Fi walked in about 5.55pm (they close at 6) and then out of the store and on our way home 6.05pm.  We’ll have to get you to set up tomorrow so we don’t bugger it up first.

Thanks

And that was it, 60 seconds playing with mine, and 24 hours later he had one in his hand. (He also got a case and stand with it)
It just shows what a great job Apple has done at attaching an experience along with this product. Yet I’m finding more and more that each person has a different “experience” attached to it.

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