I am English. What, you need more?

It should be mine cause while I would never pay $500 for this thing, I certainly would pay $0.

I want this device to be mine because i deserve this! :D lol. No, really, i never own an apple device. I really wanna know what the fuss is all about. :p

I should get the iPad because I was first (maybe?) to comment.

i want to win because i’m too cheap to buy one for myself!

Always been interested in the Tablet form factor, would be cool to have one.

I need one to fuel my @TechCrunch addiction. Also: Journalism Student.!!!!

I am broke, I have no friends and I stay inside all day. The iPad would not change this at all.

can I have an iPad please? I totally deserve one.

Pick me!

It must be mine because I’ve the biggest fan of TechCrunch.
As a female working in a tech start up, I am one little fraction that make your readership demographic diverse!
Thank you TechCrunch!

Cheers,
Joy

Must have in order to test whether it will “save media”

I’m a gadget addict. It’s not my fault, addiction is a disease. This will help me feed it for a few days.

Because I’m a poor Grad student who can barely afford food, but wouldn’t eat for a month if he didn’t have to in order to get an iPad.

Because I already have ordered two. Must have three!

I really need the new iPad because the Microsoft Courier isn’t available/in existence yet, and while I wait for that which I want more than anything else, I guess I need some sort of tablet device and the iPad seems like one to go for. Enthusiastic enough?!

The iPad must be mine because I want a TechCrunch tshirt!

I suffer from Sinus infections all the time and my brother had told me that Apple products contain healing ingredients. Since I am a “PC boy”, this would be a perfect proof of concept situation. Please send it my way. Thanks.

I’m feeling lucky. I wonder how many links I’d have to click to pay techcrunch back for an iPad?

I’m actually in it for the tech crunch T-shirt rather than the iPad ;)

I would love an iPad because I am a photographer and it would be an incredible way to show my portfolio to clients on site and at wedding vendors.

Thanks !

It is rare that I would take to a comments thread on Tech Crunch to beg someone for a piece of really cool plastic…but…in this case…I will!

I have never been much of an early adopter of technology – I shared a cell phone with my twin brother for WAY too long. However, I am now an Apple guy and am really looking forward to experimenting with the iPad. Along with my many projects, I am producing a political documentary film called The Delegates and I’d love to figure out creative ways to deliver the film and or components of my film via the iPad.

Anyway, you’ll get thousands of responses here, but you should choose me.

Thanks!

I need that iPad because, although I am of the highest-disposable income sort and could easily afford ten (Apple sees me as such an influencer, they’ve increased my personal quota by a factor of five), I use my personal income to fight evil in this world (not like Google but like Bruce Wayne–with that “influencing” technological edge)

I need an iPad because unlike your other highly-disposable influencer readers, I have not had the opportunity to order 2 yet. Or even 1 for that matter.

Why this device must be mine:

Because I work in a library, which means two things: A, that I really need to keep up to date with the technology that our library users have and want to use for accessing library services & resources; B, that I don’t get paid enough to buy aforementioned technology for myself!

It would be great to actually win one of these since then maybe I could get my Kindle away from my wife.

I deserve one since I’m a reader that does not fall into that category of “a high disposable income influencer” and do not currently have the income to even get 1 iPad even though I’m an influencer for all those who do know me.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Me! Pick Me! …. ’cause my wife won’t let me buy one.

I’m really just interested in the free TechCrunch tshirt you’ll throw in if I get the iPad

I want an iPad for free because I don’t want to pay for one.

I want one!

So this thread will either turn into a landgrab or the #fridayhotness… You folks can decide it’s future. Let’s get talking!!

I want an iPad. Hankies!

I need one because I will finally stop driving my wife crazy talking about the Ipad, counting down days, and pinching pennies. So I keep my wife and Ipad, best of both worlds.

I want the iPad because I think this will be the next big thing.

I should get it because….

I so need an iPad so badly…well mainly because it will make everyone in the office so horribly jealous of me. :-)

Why mine?

Because I’m a Geek, and that’s what us Geek do best consume high-tech goodies!
Can you throw in a TechCrunch t-shirt too, you guys rock :]

I really want this device. Big time.

Hi, Tech Crunch! I don’t always participate in the giveaways, but this is one I couldn’t see passing up. I would like the Apple iPad for all of it’s fabulous features, mostly because I feel left out of the iWorld. I don’t have an iTouch, iPhone, or anything else i-related. I do have an Apple MacBook, though, and I love it. The iPad would be a great addition and help me stay connected. Plus, it would feel good to be one of the first to have one! :)

pebblesmv@gmail.com

can’t hurt to try?

I don’t have any Apple gear :( and I’d love to win this one! :)

I am going to show it off to everyone and put a techcrunch sticker on the back.

this device must be mine because I want it

It’s time to upgrade!

iPad will be the ONLY way to read TechCrunch, i dont want to miss out :)

Because it’s sleek, shiny, and so I can be belittled by my friends who buy the HP Slate and have working Flash support on their tablet.

So I don’t have to justify one to my wife.

I would love to read my techcrunch on the toilet every morning with my lovely new ipad!

Hi there, I’d rather like an iPad because I’m going to be setting up an eponymous mobile cafe in London (“Carrozo” means “carriage/cart” in Italian) & want to pair it up with Square to really impress the City Boys & Girls. And I’ve got the best avatar here. And an even better one on http://twitter.com/carrozo

I guess I could make up some sob story – but I just want it!

As a developer, I want one so that I can participate in the Apple platform ecosystem.

It must be mine so my wife will continue to love me!

I live in Australia and it’s going to be bloody expensive so would love this one. Also – and mainly – because it’s sent with TCL – TechCrunch Love.

I would love to win this for my Mom. She is unable to get out much and has been relying on an old laptop to just be able to check email. She also loves to read and the addition of the iPad being an e-reader would be great for her. Keep up the great work TechCrunch.

You should send me an iPad because I have a large disposable income and purchase nothing that is not reviewed or advertised on TechCrunch. (Good thing my wife buys the food.)

I’d like to win the iPad so I can read techcrunch articles all over the world, reading them on the blackberry on viigo just isn’t the same and the laptop is too big to open on the train. Plus I don’t think it looks good on the beach to have a thinkpad out with your gin and tonic! I didn’t know there were 9.2 million other readers with high disposable income too and look forward to reading their comments!

I need one because my mother doesn’t know how to use a computer and this would be PERFECT for her (and me)

Hello Michael,

Nova Scotians love their gadgets.
To be one the first to have an iPad would be a great water cooler discussion (I’m in the IT sector). I’d post the comments/reviews for your tech crunch readers.

Ken

My wife keeps hogging the laptop. I work at a newspaper and need to prototype the site.

1 iPad to rule them all!

I need one of these because I really need a portable device.

I am bootstrapping a start-up. Movie reviews are a big part of the page-view ecosystem.

Currently to see the reviews on a mobile, you have to look at the full-size site and I imagine it would be much easier for users if they had a mobile site. I have no iPhone/iPad/Android because I’m bootstrapping so don’t even know what my users see.

Winning the iPad would let me make the experience better for mobile users.

Also, it’s a cool device!

Because I would actually use it.

Can I have one please? An iPad.

I need one for fun!

Also, I might like to develop an app or two for it, (but I guess that falls under the “fun” category).

I need to get an iPad to prove that it truly will be the future of computing! I want to get my Tom Cruise-Minority Report gadgetry going!

I’m a young media entrepreneur. And an Ipad would really help me produce some awesome new content. So help a young, broke, and needy guy out!

gimme.

I should get an iPad because my young son would love it. Can you make sure it comes with drool proofing though?

I need this device so I can blow my dad’s mind by pretending my iPhone grew in size overnight – because lord knows he has no idea what the iPad is. Then I’d give it to my boyfriend, because his only working computer is an iBook G4 running, er, slowly crawling on Fedora.

I want one because…, crap already order one ;/

I need this…but I don’t, but I need it…free would make this a much easier decision. I wish it had the camera in it already; then I’d be in for sure!!

I need the iPad so I can read TechCrunch while riding on spin bike

Mine will be used to feed the homeless. Nah, actually I just really want one and am a starving startup founder.

According to Scarborough Research, I *will* be a high disposable income influencer once given an iPad. Right now I am only a trending medium disposable income influencer, YOU CAN CHANGE THIS, @TECHCRUNCH!

because I’m paid-up on my Apple Taxes!

I just want one.

As the only girl in my office, I would love to show up with this. It would be a great toy to show the boys.

I want one so I can blog about how cool I am for having one.

http://wp.me/pFuDI-U

i am a geek for all new tech and gadgets and all things apple as well. i have to have it because it is beautiful, and i can’t wait for it to be available here in istanbul! pick me!

The iPad will go great with Apple tattoo I’m getting.

Wow, great giveaway! :D

I really need an iPad for a lot of things. I need to surf the web, read books, read comics, take notes in class, watch movies & tv shows, play games, listen to my music, and so much more.

Best of all, I can do all that while on the couch, in bed, on the pooper, on a trip, in class, at grandma’s house, without lugging around a heavy laptop.

The iPad is something I’ve been excited about for a long time and once it was announced I was thrilled. I know better then to dwell on rumors so none of my hopes were shattered. It turned out the way I thought it would, a giant iphone taking advantage of its size.

Again, great giveaway. Good Luck to all!

Eric

If I get this then I don’t need to wait for new HP slate

I want an iPad because i have no life

Because because because because!
Because of the wonderful things I does.

I need to try it out.

Oh, please! I’m due with baby #2 in just a few months, meaning that I’ll be tied down on the couch feeding him for LOTS of hours, with no access to a computer. And unlike with baby #1, I won’t even get to watch TV…since child #1 will be watching it. Backyardigans, anyone?

I want to make the Kindle cringe in shame.

I need an iPad to prove that it truly is the future of computing! I want to get my Tom Cruise-Minority Report gadgetry going!!

Because I have learnt to use an iphone with my nose, and you want to see what I could do with that bigger screen and better apps!

the ipad is cool and all, but i’d prefer a joojoo tablet if you’re just giving things away…

Pick me because I plan on testing it for medical use case with my clients!

Because I will use it to change the face of business computing.

We are a startup and would love to build an application to run on this for our site!

I want a free ipad because my parents said if i dont get a free ipad they are going to buy me a joojoo.

Why would you want to give it to anybody else?

I NEED 1 because I really want 1 to show off at work. :P

The iPad must be mine because it’d make a great birthday present to me :)

My wife would love one of these, and it be great if I could get her one without spending $500!

I’m hoping for this iPad to carry pictures of my family when I’m gone for work. I’m also hoping it works with Sykpe (somehow).

iPad is the coolest device of 2010. Will be buying one for all of the designers and developers who work for my company. Cannot wait to see how the FastMall app works/feels on this.

I haven’t won anything since I that trip to the set of Kojak to meet Telly

Don’t have the cash to buy an ipad, but a free ipad would be awesome!

I am a student at school and i need to take notes and read books on a daily basis, this would be such a major help in my academic work.
I really hope I win! =D

Hello Michael,

Well this is embarrassing, typo in the email on my previous post.

To be one the first to have an iPad would be a great water cooler discussion (I’m in the IT sector). I’d post the comments/reviews for your tech crunch readers.

Ken

Because my laptop is dying! And I’m a college student! :(

Because my girls could use a little bigger screen to play the Dr. Suess App.

I would love to have an iPad cuz I have always admired Apple for their subtle distinctions in products and am currently bankrupt :( and it can help me do my project this summer.

I am collapsing in envy of all those who can afford to pre-order an iPad. I need one desperately because I am an Appleholic. Please pick me, oh Techcrunch Gods.

I want it because it comes with that awesome Techcrunch T-Shirt.

It should be mine because i’d like to have a really BIG iphone.

Count me in, iPad is the next big thing and i want to have it. Pick me, you won’t regret. Promise ;-)

Every time I get deployed to some remote sites that needed to survey or troubleshoot any WiFi related problems. I use to bring my satellite toshiba laptop which is quite heavy to carry when surveying. Im stuck using that laptop since thats the only one I got. Anyhow, If i get the chance to be the lucky winner, It’d be a great help for me just to use ipad as my personal tool for my work.

So i need to have this device.

Pick me…. my iphone feels so alone and really needs a big brother :)

If I win I’ll use it as a cookie plate when my Apple-fanboy friends are over for coffee.

I am a giant, and this iPad will thus serve as an iPhone for me.

“all your bases are belong to us”. Need I say more?

I would like a TechCrunch t-shirt, please. The iPad would be nice for those extended trips to the bathroom.

I am the techiest one in my family. I work in online marketing. And yet – because it’s a corporate environment, it’s all Blackberry-only. And because of this, I have waited, patiently, and talked myself out of buying an iPhone. Yes, this Storm sucks, but work pays for it! Why spend the extra money? I bought my girlfriend an iPhone. She loves it. My 3-year-old kept hijacking it from her to play games. So to keep him happy, and to keep the iPhone safe, we just bought him an iPod Touch.

So. I’m still the nerdiest one in the house, but my girlfriend is rocking an iPhone, my THREE YEAR OLD is rocking an iPod Touch, and me, I’m just sitting on a BB Storm. And I can’t stand it. I gotta have this thing. It’s just too cool, too useful in ways I can’t imagine yet, and I’ve waited more than long enough.

I want the iPad . . . because I want fast uploading without all that water bloating.

Because no one has a greater feeling of entitlement than an Angeleno.

I want the iPad because I want to find out if there really is a use for another device in between my smartphone, desktop, and laptop systems.

I deserve this because Apple screwed me over with the iPod Touch, which I now use as an alarm clock only. With the iPad, I can have an even bigger alarm clock! SCORE!

A Apple a day keeps the IT department at bay…

The iPad. Steve Jobs’ self-proclaimed “magical and revolutionary product at an unbelievable price.” Really? Is it that magical and revolutionary? Let us examine… From the announcement January 27 to present I have yet to see anything “magical” about the iPad. Wait, what am I saying? There are many magical things about the iPad. 1. The iPad is magical in that it shape shifts. How so? Starting its’ life as the first generation iPhone, the iPad shape shifted, in a manor seen only to this point by the evil liquid metal terminator in “Terminator 2,” into a larger version of the iPhone, but not just any iPhone, the first generation iPhone lacking a camera. 2. The iPad is magical in that in its’ revolutionary price, causes money to magically disappear from one’s wallet, leaving only the aforementioned giant, rudimentary, iPhone. 3. The iPad is magical in that it creates the illusion that you are reading a book, when in fact what you are reading is nothing more than a digital version of a cheaper product that can be purchased for half the price at second hand book store. And finally, 4. The iPad is magical in that it utilizes slight of hand movements to access the same applications previously purchased for one’s iPhone while tricking you into thinking they are some how new and better.

As for “revolutionary?” That is where the iPad fails to live up to its’ claims. To date the iPad has failed to write a Declaration of Independence from other devices that do the exact same thing, to wit the iPhone. Moreover, it has not overthrown a monarchy in order to install a government by the people and for the people, to wit The French Revolution. Going further, and to include religion in this diatribe, the iPad has yet to actively lead or participate in an Islamic Revolution, to wit the 1979 revolution in Iran. Finally, and to tie it back to its’ technological base, the iPad is not revolutionary in that it is not the first hand held gaming device, is not the first hand held electronic book reader, is not the first tablet computing device, and is not the first product developed by Apple claiming to revolutionize something.

Magical? Yes. Revolutionary? No. That said, I drool at the opportunity to receive this magical, less than revolutionary device, to use to play “Pocket God” outside of my pocket, read emails for my small business on a larger scale, all while collecting more fingerprints on the screen than the FBI has in their national database. Thank you for you consideration and ultimately, your choice of my submission as the winning one warranting receipt of the iPad. Or not…

iPad is necessary for a working professional and I think I will need it very much. This will be my first apple computer product other than ipods.

I want one so I can compare it to the JooJoo!

You should pick me, simply because I’m too cool to tweet.

I want the iPad, because I’ll need a third leg to build my iTable.

I want this for my mom so she can read books & browse the Internet & get apps. I already pre-ordered two.

Well I’m unemployed so I’d love to go out and buy one but alas I can’t. Wouldn’t it be great for me to have an iPad and browse job classifieds and read “What Color Is My Parachute” while in bed? Okay, maybe not in bed but at the local coffee house dressed in my suit waiting for the interview that having an iPad will surely get me?

because I freaking reac Techcrunch 3 times a day and i got my wife hooked on as well…
now can u imagine how great an achievement that is ?
a woman with no technical background reading techcrunch twice a day…

I need to play with the ipad! gimme :)

I deserve one because I want to make everyone jealous. Hey, envy makes the world turn round.

And I’ll retweet every TC article for a week! How’s that for value?

This device must be mine because…I would like to try it out and see if it is indeed all the hype. Not a very strong reason, but an honest one!

I travel quit a bit and this would be a dream to have along with Keynote.

I would like to have one to play with, jailbreak, and continue to find/develop medical uses that would benefit with the larger screen.

Don’t Pre-Order the iPad – Keep Updated About Microsoft’s Secret Dual Screen Courier Tablet: http://couriertablet.com/

Oooh Pick me pick me. This thing will sell like hot-cakes and I love pancakes.

I want the iPad because I’m going to develop a turntable app that will completely replace physical turntables for DJing!

I should win because I’ve never ever won anything before! Also, chatting while playing/watching a movie/… is kind of hard with only one Mac.
Cheers

Why I want one…? Because I’m a fan-boi through and through!

I want an iPad so I can show it off to all my Apple friends who don’t have one :D

if i win, i am SO gonna sell this on eBay and buy the next gen iPhone this summer :)

i want to win so michael arrington will add me as a fb friend

Me Wants iPad to send children at school (Yeah…. You wish)

Yes please. BTW, what does “Chosen at random mean”? Should that be taken literally?

I am 16 years old in Egypt and it will be a great opportunity to be able use the awaited iPad. I never had an iPhone or an iPod Touch, and I am really looking forward into creating apps for the iPad.

Because I want to act like it is just an ipod but that I was experimenting (a la Rick Moranis) and it got in the way of the beam! HONEY I BLEW UP THE IPOD! O_o

I think I should win this because I am poor

I need an iPad to prove that it truly is the future of computing! I want to get my Tom Cruise-Minority Report gadgetry going!!

first an foremost, screw the iPad I want the TC tshirt. But I will be giving this iPad to my lovely wife that hates computers (loves TC though) to use in her new Personal Chef video blog, so she can respond to comments on twitter, chat and fb during the show. M Seigler’s post on why the iPad is a revolutionary device sealed the deal, this device is perfect for my wife.

I think it would fit perfectly in my pants.

I don’t need another device(s), my pc is better than any mac, ipad or a bowl of macaroni. No more fragmentated devices for me, thank you Smish…who loves you baby? http://smi.sh/30464

Count me on a free iPad. I’m crunch-worthy.

I’ve always wanted a ridiculously large iPhone and I figure this is about as close as I’m going to get.

I love the apple product. iPad is so cool.

cuz whatever

Mememememe! Pick me!

I *need* an iPad like I need another hole in my head. That being said, I *want* an iPad like I want an extra 6 inches on my vertical (that way I’m not just “that white guy who can shoot”).

Seriously though, I want to create. I want a device that doesn’t just provide multi-touch, but takes advantage of it. We need hardware that’s not about brute strength, but about finesse. All the bells and whistles in the world don’t make a quality experience.

I believe the iPad can help me reach my vision and I believe you can help me… by choosing me!

I’d like the iPad so I can Hack the firmware, install Windows 7, and release a video of Flash Player 10.1 with multi-touch running on a Windows iPad.

The iPad is the next step in the evolution of technology. I need it because my Neanderthal fingers don’t work on those small devices!

I must win this iPad so that I can run apps created with ELIPS Studio 3 on it :)

ELIPS Studio 3 allows to create cross-platform native mobile apps in Actionscript, without the need for an AIR or Flash Player runtime on the device :)

I NEED the iPad because I am a low budget app developer and I WANT the iPad because I believe it is the next step in consuming media and would really help with in my college courses.

Pick me, I need the iPad to absorb the TC Flow :)

because I am sick of of clicking a mouse.

I’ve always been the cool parent with the latest cool Mac product. But now, my kids have more cash than I do and they are each planning to buy an iPad. You have to get me one so that I can continue to be the cool dad.

It’s an Apple iPad. What better reason to not have one! :)

Been drooling ever since this unit was uncovered. Too bad they are so expensive, and will most likely never have one. Thanks for everything you do TechCrunch

I should win because I retweeted and commented. That’s twice the effort.

I feel like it will revolutionize pornography.

I wasn’t going to admit that i wanted one but I’ll come clean to win one. I lust for it!

Because one wifi iPad in the hand is worth two 3G iPads in the pre-order queue.

I work full time and go to school four nights a week.

I’d love to have an iPad that I could bring from place to place instead of lugging my Trapper Keeper across the city.

Who wouldn’t want one?

I’d like an ipad because I enjoy eating burritos. They’re delicious, cheesy, sustainable goodness wrapped in a tortilla

I’ll bite. I don’t think i’d buy it anyway

I want an iPad because of the multitude of ways it’ll change my profession and because i’m an emerging tech professional with no funds for a tech sandbox :(

I’ll take a shot at winning an iPod Touch XL.

My wife loves her Windows netbook and thinks she wouldn’t want an iPad; I’d like to see her reaction as a test case.

I am an easily irritated device and internet user and I would make sure I make the most thorough user review ever written.

Free?!! Sign me up. I don’t the iPAD is revolutionary or innovative, but I’ll take it for free. I’ll use it, embrace it and maybe even write an app. for it. Maybe.

I’d love to get one of these. And this giveaway is what finally got me to comment instead of being a lurker.

Plus, i’m just about to head to grad school. So any money i may have spent on one of these has just disappeared with the first installment of tuition.

Please I need to have a reason not to hate Apple.

I love TechCrunch.

Sure, I’ll take one…

Can I have the shirt ? You can keep the iPad !

I think this ipad should be mine because the preorder i put is for my mom because i’ve been trying to get her into using the computer for years now… she hated a pc… too many mouse buttons and too big of a tower, and software was complicated… so i bought her a mac mini to use with the same keyboard but a mac mouse (1 button)… shes ok with it, but hates that it’s not portable and not as easy as she’d like to use… so i wanted to get her an ipad, because it’s portable and touch screen and she only needs it for internet and for e-mail… maybe photos… so i decided on the 3g version because i’m moving out, so she won’t have to pay $50 a month for cable internet… the $15 dollar att plan should suffice with her minimal use! SO GIVE IT TO ME SO I CAN HAVE ONE!!!

i need another antique to add to my collection

All your iPad are belong to us…
you have no chance to survive make your time..

It must be mine because winning one is the only way I can justify getting one at the moment.

I’d be grateful for an iPad – Iam a ‘Droid’ fan, but I’m interested in the buzz around apple products, and since I have a Kindle and love it already, I’m curious if I’ll join the ranks of apple-holics if I have one.

May I please?

I think the iPad is very interesting. Good luck Apple.

I deserve it for monitoring the TC boards for a year :)
j/k

pick me pick me! (so unique, I know, but you said it’s random, so why put too much thought into it :) )

We are a startup company which provides SaaS to First Responders…. I would love to have a iPad in order to research & test the possibility of new app(s) for the First Responder community (Fire and EMS services). Thanks for the consideration. CS

I only want it for the free TechCrunch t-shirt. iPad would be awesome to throw in as well!

I need it to impress someone. Hard.

No disposable income…
A lot of disposable time to enter contests though!

Not only is this a chance to win an iPad, it is the chance to become “that guy” that won the iPad being given away by TC. Do you know what being “that guy” could do for my social status?

I’m a senior citizen that won’t tell your advertisers that I’m not affluent.

I would like an iPad because …. well no reason I just want one!

It’s the only way I’ll be able to get my iPhone back from my son and his constant viewing of Super Mario videos on YouTube.

I want such device just to try it out. Woha.

I want an iPad please and thank you. Being a Euroface I can’t even pre-order yet.

I hate being a Euroface! You would too.

I should have it.. I will show the world how worst it is! I hate Apple!

I must have an iPad because growing up I never got my Walkman, Colecovision, OP shorts, Vans shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses, neon everything, Swatch watch, Teddy Ruxpin or even a rubiks cube.

This ain’t yo Momma’s old, clunky PC tablet or dat rusty ass netbook. CRUNCH RULZ, BITCHES!!!!!

I want the iPad because I am a developer and don’t want to wait ’til the end of April (when we hopefully get them in Europe).

I’d use it for work (uh, yeah right!).

I seriously think the iPad will be an amazing computer for home – because I spend the majority of my web browsing, email writing, and game playing time sitting on the couch. Hook me up!

I assume multiple comments as long as they are not spammy are allowed? I don’t want to be disqualified for discussing the giveaway.

I want an iPad because I don’t want to test the boundaries of my marriage by purchasing one myself.

Because I will use it to change the face of small business computing.

I am a technology enthusiast and a big fan of Apple, I’l be glad to have this amazing new product..

I need yours because not only am I one of your very few readers who can’t afford two iPads, I actually can’t even afford one right now. Kids to feed. Worlds to conquer. You know how it goes.

Since the winner is chosen randomly what I say here shouldn’t really matter.

I would like to have an iPad to demo my new web startup – http://www.YourLocalBlog.com – to local businesses. YourLocalBlog is a hyperlocal map-based blogging network.

Must…have…iPad.

Pick Me Because I love Michael Arrington and the TechCrunch Family and deep inside i feel a connection of brotherhood between us. And Because i got fired from my job for browsing Techcrunch and cant afford one!

i want one! its the newest thing since the last thing apple came out with!

It should be mine because I figure flash should die, and this little device may just help.

It is destined to be mounted on my apartment wall as a beautiful IPS photo frame, though it may go to sleep/locked mode if my neighbor stops hammering. I hope there’s an app for that.

I read Techcrunch regularly and yet I am still, unfortunately, not a high disposable income influencer. I keep reading, hoping I’ll be inspired with the next big idea so that I can sell out during the next bubble. Alas, someone already created http://www.treeringpens.com/ and I’m out of ideas. If only I were the owner of this iPad, I could be more productive and finally come up with a winning idea!

I apologize if this admission of average to mediocre financial status affects your ad revenue.

I need to be able to read on a bigger screen than my iPhone!!

I’d love an iPad because I am a photographer and this would be a great way to present my work to potential clients when I meet them.

Oh, and I want it because I think it would be an invaluable tool in roundtable discussions.

If I win it, I will donate the cost of it to charity.

iPad.. sounds great! I seriously think I would enjoy to try it out one, thanks guys! Greetings from Paris

I should get the iPad because I have no intention of buying one and am convinced it’s nothing more than an oversized iPod Touch… therefore, to prove me wrong, you should send one to me. :)

I want the iPad because I need a new TV dinner tray.

Me want.

i can’t afford one but am dying to own it. help me pleaseeee

I need one so I can pimp TechCrunch in Luxembourg.

Because Chuck Norris said so?

I’m Canadian, what more do you need? It may be the only thing that will stop the bleeding from this week’s stinging attack. (they didn’t sting that bad, but they really itched!). You, know…. showing Arrington’s true affection for Canadian startups might just start up the entire Canadian startup community growth revolution on the heals of this week’s news! Holy sh@t! Do you know what you can do here MC?

1. because I am sick of clicking a mouse
2. i will read more techcrunch sitting on my couch
3. i am a very nice guy

I don’t know why I should have it, but what the heck sounds like a fun giveaway, doubt I’ll get it I’ve never won anything in my life :))

only way i am going to get this is that i get it for free…

I should absolutely get the iPad. Why, you might ask? Because I am an iPad nay-sayer. I think it’s all hype. It will go the way of the 8-track. Want to prove me wrong? Give me one to try.

If I had an iPad it would make all of my wildest dreams come true!

Also, I could then develop applications on the iPad and bring my new web-based product to the iPad. If I win one I promise to have an iPad application in the store this year!

It should be mine because i love Techcrunch!!!

I want iPad, because we have to wait in Poland probably longer than others for introducion of iPad.

I should be mine because… er… well, just because.

I want the Ipad so I can becuase it I want to new ways of collaboration in work situations with the multi-touch interface.

Comment.

My iPhone screen is too small. If I don’t get an iPad soon, I just might give up reading altogether. So please, give me one!

I need an iPad because I’m tired of my laptop burning my lap while I’m on the couch.

Please pick me! I’m a Software Architect but if I buy another Apple product I’ll have my mother-in-law up my a## again!

Top 5 Reasons I want to win a free iPad:

1. Everyone at Techcrunch will own an iPad, I must be trendy.

2. MG will post at least 5 articles convincing me to buy one – I want to avoid reading the 3rd and 4th article.

3. Paul Carr will attempt to bash everyone that buys an iPad. I clearly won’t be one of “those” people.

4. I can vicariously live out my dream of owning a CrunchPad through the iPad.

5. Finally and most importantly, I can enjoy reading Techcrunch articles on my lovely, new iPad.

I would be a great choice to receive this FREE iPad because……
I am still not an Apple believer. My family has embraced Apple, (2 iMac’s, countless iPods, and even a preordered iPad) but I have not owned a single item from Apple. I have never really craved any previous product. I love Tech, have a desktop, 2 laptops, and 1 tablet/notebook, just have never gotten into the whole APPLE craze. However… the iPad… I have found myself lusting for the iPad.

Please TECHCRUNCH! Make a beleiver out of me!

The iPad must be mine so that I can beat Guillermo del Toro to the punch and create the first non-linear version of Joyce’s Ulysses.

Because its cool. Because I read TC every day. Because I need to test our iPhone app on the iPad. Because I really want one but can’t afford it right now. Because I’ll write a great user review. Because its my lucky day. Because I’ll keep writing reasons until I win an iPad!!!

I’d like to have the Apple iPad so I assess whether this product is a true value added extension to a brilliantly innovative line of products or simply a knee jerk reaction to industry trends. At first glance I believe its the latter but I’ll be the first to admit I was wrong if the iPad truly delivers an unmatchable user experience like the Mac,iPod and iPhone have done in the past. Send me one…prove me wrong.

Give it to ME! :-) Pretty please?

It should be mine because i find my self going to techcrunch.com at leat 4 times a day.

I’m building my business and personal life in the cloud, so I can be anywhere…thus, the Ipad is the perfect tool for me and my team…please gimme one.

Buy for me what I can’t buy for myself.

It should be mine because I’m feeling lucky today and I’ve been an avid TC reader for a while now, iPad will be best suited for my online class rather than using my iPhone. Pick me pick me ;)

I would like to have an iPad for my wife to use. Her Mac is showing it’s age and I think this would be a nice complement to it. I keep teasing here that “there is an app for that” and she could finally experience it for herself!
Thanks!

I’m over 50 and need a big screen handheld. I can’t see those other devices.

Oh, a shirt! Nice! Since I am a member of the new stimulus package, “high disposable income influencer” I do not need a third iPad. However, I could use TechCrunch t-shirt, please!

I need this iPad because it reminds me of the lap computers from Ender’s Game and I need one of these to begin my plot to take over the world.

Cool! I want one so that I could showcase my photography portfolio on it!

I’d love an iPad! Dying to get rid of print magazines and newspapers!

I think it should be me, and because the winner is picked at random I don’t have to give any more details.

This particular iPad should be mine because I never win anything and I would like to have the t-shirt

An Apple iPad would change my digital life. I spend many hours on the road assisting my state education department. I help school districts develop their school improvement plans and facilitate 21st century skills PD. An iPad would be a great tool to share with the districts’ teachers and students I work with and eliminate lugging around my MacBook. Couldn’t live without you TechCrunch!

My 14 year old daughter would like to prove that the iPad is a great school device (for school work and social standing) – so we need the iPad.

I need it coz I don’t have an iPhone and a macbook

because I like shiny things

ipad, upad, we all pad for ipad!

I want an iPad so I can read TechCrunch in bed first thing in the morning, and last thing at night.

I spent two years in college working on a prototype for a multitouch-aware web app to help creative people organize their artwork. Since then, I’ve taken a break to practice being an adult, but I’ve recently been chomping at the bit to launch it.

With Flash’s iPhone packager and the iPad both launching this year, it’s the perfect time for me to realize my vision for a portable, easy-to-use, touch enabled artists’ tool.

I need this because my name is Giovanni and I have no arms

Because there is no way I’m going to buy this thing, but for free I’ll play.

I must have this device because I commute by train an hour each way, every day, and watching TV shows and movies on my iPhone makes my eyes sad. :(

The iPhone just isn’t enough to read techcrunch on the road :)

I gotta have this because I’m tired of my wife asking for my laptop to check her facebook acct when I’m in the middle of a coding session….

well if its free I’ll take it :-)

I want an iPad because the guys at Fusion Garage screwed over the great CrunchPad and I want to send a message to those criminals. Don’t f*ck with Tech Crunch, b*tches!

come on, really…..very few people are going to leave their full function devices for a dirty screen, hard to use (like the keyboard) mid sized pos.

I need an iPad because my eyes are getting to bad to read my iPhone!

We could definitely use this for work. It would make for some pretty impressive presentations to our clients for proofs.

Look the chances of me ever getting the chance to buy one in Ireland in the next 2 years is slim to say the least. Patrick’s Day is next week and make the luck of the Irish come true!

My wife has a ‘Pad’ and i need a ‘iPad’.. Equality to all !!!

Want an iPad so I can drop it!

I’m a designer & developer, which means I definitely do not fall under the category, ” high disposable income influencer” – at least, not yet!

By supplying me with an iPad, you will enable me to better test applications, perform high fidelity user experience studies, and conduct market research on emerging trends.

Help me Tech Crunch! You’re my only hope!

I don’t want it.

Mmmmmm. Shiny. Good. Apple. Want!

I would never consider buying one on my own, but I’ll gladly use a free one. =)

I want one so that I don’t have to print out the million files for my b-school case readings. I also hug around a huge laptop, so it will be a relief to have a sleek iPad instead.

Why must I have this device? I am currently doing biological research and will begin medical school this coming fall. I will be doing my studies overseas at an incredible Medical School for International Health. The program mirrors the US program for the first two years although it focuses significantly on public health in third world countries. The fourth year electives requires a three month tour in a third world country (India, Nepal, Kenya, Ethiopa amongst others).

I’m not entirely convinced that an ipad will replace my laptop at home. There is something nice about a keyboard and screen, each attached to the other at a fixed 65-100 degree angle. That being said, I cannot imagine a more useful device for medical school. I currently use anatomy programs on my iPhone and to be able to visualize these pictures and tools on a larger screen would be invaluable. In addition, the bookstore would make medical text-books (hopefully) significantly cheaper and a lot lighter. Hopefully, with the update of hospital records, I would be able to use a secure program to check in on patients, see their vitals from afar and even live EKG and monitoring…. I think this is the business and medical tool of the future. This all being said, I was going to wait for gen2 but if techcrunch were to give me one, I would, I’m sure, make incredible use of it…

I want an iPad because i’m always on the go and the iPad will be the perfect digital companion for my work/fun on the go needs needs :)

I think I’ll be the random dude who gets one. I want an iPad!

me please.

I am poor… help me

Today is my birthday and I am sitting in a hospital ER room waiting to find out if the blood is from cancer or something else. Happy f—ing 38th birthday to me.

I want the iPad so I can dream about what it would have been like if it were a CrunchPad.

This would come as a nice replacement for my Newton which broke down after 15 years of service…

As a developer of hypermedia, i.e., web sites, applications, social apps, etc… as well as an avid user of all social networking sites and apps, I am quite anxious to checkout and use the iPad to best determine it’s utilization for development and especially location based socialization. Unfortunately, that expendable income you mentioned isn’t quite as prevalent for me these days, so winning one of these would earn TechCrunch major kudos and continued promotion by yours truly! :-) Keep up the great work! My favorite feeds by far!

Need it.

How bout me, as I’m one of only 3 people to share on Facebook so far!

I need this because my name is Giovanni and I have no legs

I’m working on an awesome iPad app and actually buying the device is really gonna strain my budget!

I just want the iPad for the sake of having it.

I’m Praying All Day (IPAD) for one

This iPad should be mine because I’m awesome and you’re wonderful and Apple is near-dictatorship but still so tempting. oh and kitties

With my new “free” iPad in hand, I will finally write my futurist manifesto wherein all humans will be controlled by a powerful company named after a fruit.

I need an iPad to give me a sense of self-worth and purpose and a way to creatively read eBooks.

This should be mine because I’ve never owned an Apple product, simply because of the price!

I’m a fan of both TechCrunch and Apple, so this iPad and the shirt would be a perfect combination.

i would like one as I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious.

I want an iPad because the hard drive in my Mac is flaky and lost all of my pictures from the last 10 years! >=O

I was monitoring ipad news from long back for its release. I have waited enough and I deserve an ipad now. I never owned an apple product and I feel this is one cool way to get one.

Dear TechCrunch and fellow crunchers

I think that we all have to agree that I´m the one that should be getting the iPad because I´m from Iceland and Iceland has become bankrupt because of speculative buying and I know that if I had an iPad I could fix it…no kidding

Looking for an iPad to use as an electronic flight bag for flying! Seems like a great device for viewing charts.

I should get the ipad because i am new to the states, and now that i’ve seen that everybody has an ipod/iphone, i will make fun of them all with their baby devices :)

I can haz iPad?

Would love to have it! :)

I want one for free because I know the 2nd gen will be marginally better – most likely through the inclusion of features that should have been in the 1st gen.

I’m writing this comment on behalf of my husband. He has always had to have the newest Apple product. He believes in Apple and purchased stock in it years ago and recently bought more due to the IPad launch. He is the BIGGEST computer/gadget geek ever. That’s a compliment! He can learn and do anything just by reading and hard work. I would love to surprise him with this IPad, he would utilize every single aspect it offers, I have no doubt that he wouldn’t come to sleep for at least a week if he received this giveaway! He is excited about the Podcast and has even turned me onto TechCrunch (which is how I found this.)
Honestly, Andrew is the one who use this for all it is. After he bought an IPhone, the whole family including extended members, all ended up with one. This is a cheesy, yet sincere request to give this Apple IPad to my husband Andrew.
Oh and he also has another Twitter account,
http://twitter.com/andrewacomb
Thanks for considering and offering this giveaway!

I’d like to win the iPad because it’d be a cool birthday gift for my wife—and she’ll get a better b-day dinner, to boot

Nothing like being one of the first few to own the ipad, am an avid reader of techcrunch, get a lot of the tech news, latest gossips & rumours in the tech world right here on your site..:)..keep up the good work..I hope I get lucky and win the ipad..good luck to all..:)

I would like the ipad because it sounds super cool, but we won’t know until we try it. I promise to tell you all about it if you give me one, the good, bad and tearful… :)

Because I want to start building apps for it.

I love the TechCruch and would love to be honored with an iPad :-)

I need the ipad without it not much to live for

I’m still using a Palm Tungsten E and a desktop computer. Need a new portable device.

If I win one it’ll stop me driving my wife crazy with my constant “do I get a netbook or an ipad” dilemma. Today the netbook’s winning the argument but that changes daily…

I retweeted and I’m not a big fan of Apple, but I really want to see what it will be like !

Hi Mike!.

I am heading the development of Atmosphir in Argentina, you post it last week, thanks for that awesome article btw! and we have plans for taking the game into the iPhone/iPad platform. Mi idea in my trip to visit the board at Minor Ventures was to buy one, but its not for sale and I am going back on monday to Argentina :S. Honestly I need this for work!.

We are also a proud TechCrunch50 2008 runners up company! :D

Thanks anyway I love this site, many fans in Argentina you have.. need to come someday

cheeers!

iNeed an iPad so that iCan look at iPorn?

iWant it.

I love Apple’s products and I love this informative website.

I want it!

What’s an iPad?

I want one just to have one. I’ll find a use for it.

I am a 45 year old father of four who is deathly afraid of falling behind his 9-year old daughter’s technological capabilities. This will allow me to island hop her and her fancy itouch!

I´d like an Ipad because I am a musician, and I foresee a big impact of this device for music applications. Actually if I were a developer I’d already have quite a few ideas…ciao!

I want to win one because I won’t buy one.

Wow. Did you have all that ready before the 3….2…1 Tweet from @arrington? You are one seriously determined commenter!!!

I want to win because I am going to change the world with this device at my fingertips.

I want this device because my dreams of owning a 200-300 dollar crunchpad will never come true :-(

i should win the ipad beacause i would never pay over 400 $ for a singe-tasking-computer

Would love to use this to remote access my imac and the veterinary practice software on it from the exam room.

Because I chose to major in philosophy and will now never be able to get a job. More importantly, if I don’t get a free iPad, I’ll be forced to use philosophical mind bullets to take down your site. (Yes, THAT’s what they teach us to do in philosophy school. Well, that and how to argue our way into living in a cardboard box…)

In the immortal words of the great Frank Zappa

“Pick me I’m clean”

Pick Me !! I had my heart set on a Crunchpad but I can settle for an iPad because I would not buy that @#%% JooJoo from that thief if they were on sale for $150.00 !!! That guys is such a dirtbag. I hope he monitors TechCrunch for the word ‘JooJoo’ and reads this..
.. Mike

1. I want to make my co-workers jealous.
2. Develop my next app on it.

This would be a good opportunity for Apple to try and convert me!

I’m a beginning iphone dev who needs an ipad for my business!

May i win it. I had a 102 fever on my birthday and didn’t do anything :(

I’m 24 :(

It’s going to take me forever to save up the money otherwise

It should be mine because I’m not going to give you a bullshit comment. I just want it because it’s free. I’m not going to kiss your ass like most of these people.

Thanks

-Jay

It will look good on my shelf next to my laser disc player and betamax deck.

I’ve never won a drawing in my life but I’m not giving up hope! As the old lotto commercials said “You gotta be in it to win it!”

I wish I can buy one, but I have a 2 year old, and another due in May! Daddy can’t afford it! I’m a part-time stay home dad, so I could definitely use one!

Must have the iPad, my PRECIOUS, Smeagal must find the iPad, one pad to rule them all

I likey…

I want the iPad because I am made fun of for being a Mac user by the male engineers on my floor who are dedicated windows users…and I want to prove that the iPad doesn’t suck whatsoever and make them shut up :)

Just pre-ordered mine, your one will do nicely as a Birthday present for my wife. Thanks

I want the iPad because I have no friends. This device will complete me, revolutionize me, it had me at hello. With the iPad I will start using hair gel, I will wear tight vintage clothes and I will finally have friends… hip friends.

It should be mine because I can’t afford to have one otherwise !

I need a coaster for my coffee cup.

Because I’m desperately poor…

I’m curious to try out iBooks.

The iPad is perfect product for surfing the web on the john. My ipod touch is too small and the laptop is just plain awkward.

AY CHIHUAHUA! An early IPAD giveaway? That will suit just peachy with my papaya case =D

ANDELE!

My car seat heater is broken and I need something, with which, to keep my butt warm.

I need it because I am shoestringing a start-up, and we’d love to test it early on an iPad.

I’ve got 3 jobs right now. And only one I can concentrate on. Start-up fever. Yes, I got a fever, and the only prescription for it is an iPad.

Oh yeah, and we are in Detroit. Watch out SanFran! We are growing tech in this rubble!

I want this iPad because I will not be owning one if I don’t win it like this :-)

I deserve the iPad because I didn’t get a bail out from the government.

Because I will use it only for the greater good of the planet. I will develop an app that predicts earthquakes, ends poverty, hunger, global warming and annoying people. Who else can offer such things?

It must be mine because they aren’t releasing it in Belgium (they do in France, Germany, England, …) and I’m a cocoa developer who desperately needs one to port apps to the iPad SDK and actually test them on a real device. (Photo editing apps are hard to test in the simulator) :(

Nice offer Mike. I would like the iPad giveaway because that’s just what I’ll do; give it away to a worthy student, developer, etc that can use it for a good cause. I suspect I won’t have much use for it myself. Regift? Yup! #crunch

I want this because, if the VPN works, I won’t have to take a laptop when I travel. Good-bye struggling not to check luggage, hello single carry-on only!

awesome!

I’m not a troll.

Dear glorious CONTEST interpreter,

I deserve your FULL APPLE IPAD and The enjoyment of these substances.

What do you hither harshly it ?

Excuse, that I interfere, I too would like to express the opinion that an iPad would make wonderful pet project for MY BEDSIDE surfing of Internets ETERNAL and make benefit my BANK DETAILS which sure as the GOOD EARTH could PROFIT from not making PAYMENT for such a wonderful APPLE product.

It is certainly interesting for me to read the blog. Thank you for it. I like such themes and everything connected to them. I would like to read more on that blog soon.

TRULY YOURS IN SPAM ENJOYMENT and all GLORY,

Clark

I would never buy one…but would not complain if I got one for free.

I’ve never won anything. Now the time has come. Your iPad is mine…

I want it, because I just want it!

I quantify my desire to see what this thing is all about at ~$200. Unfortunately that leaves me $300 short.

I want to try my new iPhone game app in the new iPad. Interested to see how Apps translate to the larger slate.

Also interested to see if it can act as a daytrip laptop with cloud connection.

I need an iPad so that I can check email, surf the web, create presentations, and play games… magically.

I absolutely need this because I want one but there’s no way I’m buying one!

While being a Mac user since 1988, I haven’t gotten beyond the iPod since 2006. Can’t afford it and my iMac G5 is dying a slow death and is not portable. I live in SF and am one of the few souls to not have a swanky iPhone.

What I can say is I’m a brand loyalist – have encouraged everyone to switch over to their products. So if Apple won’t give me one for being a walking advertisement, maybe you will!

I just switched back to a PC from a MAC at work, feels like I’m back in 1992… I neeeeeed a fix of technology that is current.

I want it solely as a gaming machine.

I have extra large hands. The iPhone looks goofy when I hold it. I think the iPad will make my hands looks normal pretty.

It will be hard to figure out what to do with three of these since I am already buying 2 (yeah, right…) but I will somehow manage to find a use for it.

While I would have SERIOUSLY rathered winning a Nexus One as my old TMO WING is sooo outdated, winning an iPad would be sweet, so just let me know when I win and I will shoot you over my address :-)

because my kids will enjoy reading and playing games on it

The iPad is the last piece i need for me to form the almighty iVoltron!

Because if I buy an iPad at launch my fiancee will seek a pre-emptive divorce (mid-April wedding… bad timing with hindsight!)

I need to win this…because it’d be my first apple product, ever.

Why the iPad? Because the Kindle just isn’t good enough (for me)…

Because i find my self going to techcrunch.com at least 4 times a day

I think I will never buy an iPad or iPhone so this is the only way to have one.

I should win because I want the TechCrunch T-shirt almost more than the iPad.

I want an ipad because I can’t have enough shiny gadgets.

I have extra large hands. The iPhone looks goofy when I hold it. I think the iPad will make my hands look normal pretty.

Why do I need one?
I’d rather answer why I don’t need one. “…”
I could probably use this 12hrs a day just trying to answer my kid questions. What’s the fastest car in the world? How many of your truck can the biggest dump truck carry? What’s the average land speed of an unlaiden swallow? It’s endless.

I need the iPad so I can take some pressure off my wrists!

This device must be mine, because I’m a PC, AND I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE!

I’d LOVE to have one for school purposes!

It must be mine because I want to be able to criticize it knowing what I’m talking about!

Well, I’m Chilean, and, you know, it’s hard for us get this Apple things ;)

Because I have to have one such that I could nail it to the wall as a photo display@

I want the iPad because it is smooth

I need this bcause the itouch is just too small. I wish the iPad could be larger like the size of a small dog and have wheels so I could haul it around like a 1980′s piece of luggage.

I would like this because I won’t buy one for myself, but I want to see if it lives up to the hype. ’nuff said

An iPad will definitely make me cooler.

Unemployed and want this.

I’d absolutely love an iPad : Choose me!

Alright listen, due to recent events I snapped and renamed myself Tarrant Hightopp, after the Mad Hatter. I’m totally insane and the only thing that could keep me from running around raping cats and water creatures is the world wide web. However every now and then, I get bored of the web, and the raping just has to ensue. After seeing the iPad though, I know, God as my witness, that I can stay at home day after day after day just playing with the iPad, buying e-books, listening to music, using it as a whack-a-mole. Like, literally, I’m insane and I need to be restrained. The iPad will do the trick.
So please, save the neighborhood cats. Choose me for the iPad. Thank you.

This device must be mine because I can’t of a better tool with which to answer students’ questions and to help show that librarians aren’t odd creatures who lurk like dust bunnies in book stacks.

I need to control every devive in my house from this iPad … from my toilet. Dude, all out awesome.

Please pick me! I am turning 40 this year (in July technically) and fear my husband might give me a vacuum cleaner or something horrible. Please!

It should be mine because i’ve never owned an Apple device and this looks like a good device to start.

I should get the iPad because my fingers are too BIG for the iPod touch!

I would like to win this contest for the Tech Crunch T-Shirt… though getting an iPad with it wouldn’t be too bad. ;-)

I want one ! Good reason I think …

I want an iPad so I can develop apps to make money and pay for my NYU tuition.

Can the iPad really be that cool? won’t know until I actually get to use one. This may be my opportunity.

Coz I’ll never buy one myself!

I need an ipad so I can stop talking about the ipad and driving my wife crazy. I can just sit and quietly read Techcrunch, Crunchgear and Mobilecrunch.

An iPad a day keeps the Kindle away.

The iPad must be mine so that I may have the words “Don’t Panic” laser etched in the back and pretend for far too long that it’s my very own HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

I want an iPad so I can make develop apps for it.

I need an iPad to give to my grandmother so she can send and receive emails and pictures.

I really want that TechCrunch tshirt, I would be so cool looking in that shirt. Oh yeah I guess you can throw in that ipad too.

I deserve it most because my hatred for Apple-hype needs to be disproved.

I prefer the Techcrunch t-shirt but the big iPhone looks interesting.

Well TechCrunch inspired me to start my own website / community for independent filmmakers that will go live in 2 months or so. Now since I put all my money in this project so I can help other filmmakers with information, training, networking possibilities and promotion, I simply cannot afford one of these shiny iPads right now. But it sure would be great to make those presentations with an iPad in my hands… :)

So c’mon, help those tech-loving filmmakers and hand me that iPad. Prettyplease? :)

Cheers, Tobias

You should pick me, because while there’s no way in hell I’d ever buy one, maybe it’ll turn out to be less of a piece of junk than it appears to be, and I’ll praise you when I tell people it didn’t suck as much as I expected it to: “it’s only *mostly* a giant iPod Touch. Go read TechCrunch!”

I should get this iPad. PERIOD! ;-)

So all my fellow Apple fan boys will be jealous! (and my wife won’t let me either!)

hilarious

This iPad must be mine because I am a media junkie, and this thing will mainline media to me like nothing else.

I’d like an iPad out of curiousity. I have a laptop and an iPhone so I’d really just like to see where in my life this device will fit in. I’m certain it will and I’m certain I’ll use it quite often. My guess? It will make a great bathroom reader and toilet web surfing device!!

Give me the Ipad because I am me.

Does anyone really need a reason? But it would make a good recipe viewer for my wife.

I need an iPad because I can’t read techcrunch on my laptop on my really uncomfortable couch…

Choose me you will. Win the iPad I shall.

This is the “Device” to own this year. Especially since I use keynote for my presentations and pages for my writing. I must have this device!

I want the iPad so I can start testing my developing apps made in pre release Flash CS5 (before the market gets way to over saturated).

I really want an IPad for when an iPhone screen is too small and I’m too lazy to go to my desktop.

Mike,
Pick me so I can extend my iPhone app and help people find work/jobs. This economy still sucks for freelancers.

My 10 years old boy is an Apple fan and craves for one.
Would u buy an iPad for a 10 year’s old boy?!

Because I’m tired of reading TechCrunch on my iPhone.

Give me one iPad, and I will forget stupid JooJoo.

It must be mine, because the first thing I will do as a computer science student is develop an iPad app for TechCrunch which make browsing the site much more fun than browsing a regular website!

After giving away my old iTouch loaded with kids apps and games to a child cancer charity and getting great feedback. I’d like to look at how this device could be used for older children, to keep them in the loop with friends, entertainment, and to provide access to educational resources/apps.

3 month for me to test, review and demo. Then I’ll give it away to a UK children’s cancer ward.

I must have one so I can taunt it for not being as cool as that CrunchPad I would have bought!

My wife will be very jealous when she see’s my iPad. I must have another one for her.

I need this, because I have already disposed of my income, yet I still want to be an influencer. Please, give me some influence!

Early Adopter with no early adopter money right here.

I only want one so I can develop on it. I could care less otherwise really.

I need an iPad because I’m in the middle of my iPeriod.

this device must be mine because it was predestined to be so by the god shakazulu.

Because I luv it!

Hook me up!

Dont own any apple devices yet since am a student, would be definitely pleased to win this ipad..:)..will make my day..!..Been a avid reader of TC for so many years to get all my tech news..hope I can win..:)

Could really use one of these. This would make travel a lot more fun.

Oh I just want to see what the hype was about this device :-)

6 words. If it’s free, it’s for me!

i need this, as i really want to give att more money for their shotty service

other than that i want it to look cool

I need this device so that I can obsessively check TechCrunch throughout the day, generating precious pageviews. I also promise to compulsively click (tap?) on TechCrunch ads from my new iPad.

I dont have the time to go into the store and stand in line for hours.

this baby-boomer professor of entrepreneurship needs this gadget to go along with her iphone, macbook pro, kindle, so sh can tout at the university of texas at san antonio that she was first to own one (and i’ll wear your t-shirt to my class everyday for a week!) PPPLLLLEEEAAASSSEEE!!!!
Anita Leffel

I need this to give to my mom. It’s the only way I can get her to join the 21st century.

I’d love an ipad as a perfect gift. like an iphone, it can do reinvent a person’s productivity and use of computing

Should have this.. I want to be the first one to have it here.. :)

I really need this iPad to complete my project. You see I am one of those high disposable income influencers and I obviously have 2 on order as well as my Mom,brother, and my Unvle Steve who’s not really my uncle by blood but he has beenarround so long ….. You know what I mean anyway I am using all these iPads for what other than an iPad video wall. I need one more to complete it. Can you help me out?

I really just want the Crunchpad t-shirt, but I can always re-gift the ipad …

IPad will be really useful as a developer. It’d be great to get my hands on one to really see all the cool possibilities you could do with it.

I must have this device or I won’t realize my dream to walk on water.

It must be mine so I can develop badass iPad apps on it.

i have an idea for an app that will work much better on iPad than the small screen of iPhone. i will only develop it, if i win this though

without an iPad my live would continue being so LANGWEILIG. i need this. HER DAMIT. pleeeeeeaaaaaasseeeeee SOFORT!

Hi. I want this device as Photo album, and as mini monitor for my news/blog reading just next to my main monitor. Greetings.

I need this so that I can take one single device with me to class instead of a foot-high stack of paper consisting of all my course printouts.

Please?

I think it’s a disappointing device, but I just want to be sure I’m right.

I want an iPad because it’ll definitely be easier to read in a bathroom versus a newspaper, and less likely to fall in the toilet like my iPhone.

I need this pad because it is the most coolest of cool, awesomely conceived, totally good show off material and because a bear broke into my cabin, crunched my Macbook and killed it.

I want to thank the Academy, my parents…oh, wait, that’s my Oscar acceptance speech.

Seriously, the Apple iPad should be mine because I will use it to further the advancement of human civilization (bit lofty, but this is a lofty day).

I would like to win this free iPad so that my fiancee’ won’t harass me about wasting money on “stupid technology”…if it’s free I can enjoy the wonders of the device guilt free.

It’s about time I had a new piece of technology instead of just admiring it daily on a website. =)

I never win anything :D but I’ll give this a try…

I need this because I would give it to my 15 year old stepson who will hopefully be able to now masturbate 27/7 to cartoon porn somewhere in the house where we wont walk in on him.

Not sure how well the screen will hold up though…

I deserve it because I’m Head of Social Media at a leading UK media agency, and currently using a PC Laptop…. can you believe it!!!!

This iPad will help me to talk to our clients in a way that shows them the power of new technology being driven by user consumption.

Practice what you preach… and love the iPad!

1) Win iPad
2) ???
3) Profit

I’d like the iPad because I’m a teacher and can’t afford my own, but I can show it to all the students at my private school and get them and their high income parents to buy several!

I’m curious. Why not?

because it doesn’t matter whatever I put here if I have lady luck on my side

Simple reason why I should get it . . . Because TechCrunch ROCKS!!

I need one for many reasons, but particularly because I think it would be perfect for viewing my baby daughter’s webcam at night. It’s the future in parenting!

It should be mine in a nice men’s medium. Oh there is something from Apple included as well? Bonus.

I want an iPad for the games man… the GAMES! Plants Vs Zombies on a larger screen, Final Fantasy I & 2? I’d be in heaven with an iPad in my living room, office, or just about anywhere.

Would love to make apps for it – would be good to get to know it well first.

This would complete my mac-trifecta.

because I have a phone and a laptop. I need something in between to compliment the two.

I would like to give my mom a computer she’ll use.

I’d love a chance to win and own iPad so all my co-workers & friends can call me a hypocrite.

Because I finally figured out how I could use one, I probably think this pad is about me…

Because I am from Singapore, the country Apple chose to ignore and not launch the iPad during the first phase. *Tear*

What’s an iPad?!

Mine, mine, mine … it’s mine.

would make an awesome birthday gift

I want an iPad so I can read Techcrunch in the toilet… iPhone screen is too small and slow and Macbook is just too big …

I must have this device because I am a single mom running a start up and love to discover and share new technology with anyone who will listen. Just think of the thousands of moms I could influence to incorporate the iPad into their household budgets!

Give me a chance to get my hands on the newest and coolest in tablet computing.

I want an iPad because I didn’t have the chance to own an iPhone nor an iPod touch.

I want one because I think it would be really useful for class.

Oh and I’ve never won anything before, this would be a good start. :D

…because I want to be the first guy seen on Youtube/TV walking around downtown using it as a telephone smashed against my face.

I would want it just because I dreamt about it last night =D

I want an iPad because I think it’s the first brick of a whole new area for our interaction with machines.

I think the iPad should be mine because it will help me not spend 12 hours a day in front of the computer.

I need one because I’m going to Cuba in May and I want to shove American capitalist technology imperialism in their faces. I suspect I might even be crowned “King Cuba” by flashing a iPad.

Sadly Apple has deemed my country unworthy of a early release…

That is one sure way to overload the comment section.
Great reading (even for a frenchman!)

I’m in!

Was going to buy one but school is expensive

I need an Ipad to use when I donate plasma to save lives:-)

I believe I must own this Ipad you are graciously giving away because I need something to read while I’m in the bathroom.

i want one so i can place it next to another useless device, my nintendo wii

I would love to win an iPad from TechCrunch because it would be cool to read newspaper, books and TechCrunch on that sexy thing.

It is that time of the month, where i simply can’t live without my maxi… i mean iPads! Good luck all -fans

Please select me to receive your free iPad. I am running out of room with all my iPhone, e-reader, MP3 players and need a single device that works like all of them. Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.

I would love to have this device, but really can’t afford it. rent and bills comsuming pretty much my entire salary. :(

I have an idea for my business and I want to break the iPad down

because giving it to me is the right thing to do.

I have the strength of ten men.
That is all.

I want the iPad because it is cool to get one, BUT it is way cooler to get one from TechCrunch!

I would like to win the iPad becuase the iPad looks awesome, TechCrunch is awesome, I bet the T-Shirt is awesome, and becuase my Mom thinks I’m pretty awesome too. Does a simple “please” help? Woohoo!

I deserve the ipad because I’m not fully confident it’s really all that. I want Apple to prove that it’s really all-that :)

I’ll take the iPad to Venice for a ride in a Gondola.

Because I’m a PC, and I can’t take it anymore…

I dream, fortnightly, of sitting at my dining room table eating breakfast and reading my news on such a device! I would even read techcrunch.com thereupon! Would that I were Jean-Luc Picard! Would that the future were now! I desire nothing more than to hold the internet in my very hands! Have you no decency fate?! Bring me my dream wrapped in pure UPS brown! Bring me my dream of internet freedom!

I am but a poor man, but rich in hope! Do not have pity on the dreamer if you have the means to make his dream come true!

Pick me! Pick me! (please)

Because…we have the need…the need for speed going through airports and life. While, I love my iPhone and Droid…I would love to use the iPad during my many travels around the globe to keep up with Techcrunch and do my job without having to carry a laptop. Not too mention…it oozes of early adopter coolness and would look awesome in London, Paris, NYC and others. Don’t cha think??? :)

I have traveled back from the future to inform you that I am the winner and would therefore like to claim my prize in advance and save everyone the trouble.

I think this would be perfect for my 85 year old mom.

I’m a teacher. I would love to explore the educational possibilites of the iPad. Thanks.

Because I already bought one for myself, and I don’t want to have to share it with my wife. I’m sure you understand.

I want it so that i can take it to the army (mandator in my country) with me in order to be able to read e-books from there since cellphones with camera aren’t allowed.. (so as laptops)

I’m a web designer and still looking to see what the ipad can do… so of course I need my own to do so. Hook it up TechCrunch. :)

This device should be mine because I am one of the last to get anything, if I get anything at all. When I finally do get something, everything else is always so far advanced that what I do have is not much. I would indeed treasure this should I be lucky enough to win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I need this because I’m learning to make apps that will change the world…or at least make a dent!

iPad me TC

I want one because I want the ipad to be my first apple product.

This iPad must be mine because (sadly) I am not a high disposable income reader and will not be adopting this device early.

I need this iPad, cause I read a lot of online books, and also my birthday is coming really soon, and no one is giving me presents :(

Like everyone here …I too want one. Do I have a good reason…hell yeah!
I am a frequent traveler, with lots of international airtime. With the short battery life of my laptop, the iPad will be the best gadget to kill some time watching movies and reading books.

Cheers!

Pick me!

Will be fun trying to play Skies of Glory on this thing! Woot woot.

This will make me look great on mother’s day.
I have tried to give her a notebook but never cared for it. THIS, SHE WILL LOVE.
It will suck for me in the long run since I live 3000 mile away and will not be able to play with it. Still worth it!

I want to be part of history in the making which is why I want the Ipad !

Having 3 iPads means I can develop iPad apps 3x as fast!

Because I’m an indie developer who needs to test his creation for this bad-boy. Want cool apps? … please give it to a developer whose budget includes the spare change jar.

I’m in. Would love the iPad even without the 3G.

This device must be mine because I am a poor college student techie who can’t afford to buy one himself.

I want to give it to my wife for her birthday. Then she can leave my Macbook alone!

;-)

I want the iPad ‘cos it’s only way I’ll get this over-hyped piece of non-innovative (except for the 10 hour battery) iPodTouch on HGH.

Hey..send one to me..I would like to help mankind by creating good products for everyone..not just few who can afford from apple.

I WANT IPAD!!!!

I like new technologies and I am always looking for ways that new technologies can improve our lives and those of others around us. I like my IPOD touch and think the IPad will be even more user friendly during meetings and for presentations.

I would use it to feed the poor. It can do that, right?

shhhheeeeett, i’ll take anybodies IPad, long as they givin it away.

May I please have an iPad? Thank you! I really need an iPad because 1) I don’t actually have one or two ordered, and 2) becasue my kids are getting older and its harder to be cool with them, but an iPad would definately boost my AND their cool factor!

because i want to give it to my sister …she`s 15 years old..and simply …loves everything from Apple :)

because i don’t have a kindle, or an iphone, nor a ipod. i am apple-less. the ipad, while not making me, apple-ful, would leave me apple-some.

and feeling warm and fuzzy.

I’m with satch – wife won’t let me buy one but I’d love to test it out.

I want an iPad so I can nitpick about all its imperfections to sound like a discerning customer.

In Argentina, where I’m from $499 is much, much more than the minimum wage. Fill the tech gap and send it to me. Deal?

I would like an iPad because I think is going to be one of the best tablets ever created! I always wanted a tablet and I think this one is the best for my needs!

Love to check out the iPad.

please please please pick me.

why should you pick me…..why not?

Because as someone with Parkinson’s, Lupus and Diabetes I need something good to happen in my life… I really do have this stuff and I love to read but sometimes books are just too heavy and bulky for me to handle. I’ve been looking into e-readers and tablets but they are just way too expensive when you have to buy more than a dozen meds a month. :(

I’d like to give it away to someone special, who is not very tech savvy but still reads the news once in a while from the web.

I want it because you are giving and if techcrunch is giving something it will be awesome, i want to experience the ipad because i know it will take time after launch also to come to INDIA

Roses are Red,
the iPad is phatty,
2 babies at home means
no iPad for daddy.

Since last year i started to read techcrunch. Every articles makes you excited about things going in tech world specifically when i read about apple’s new gadget. Since last December, reading news about apple’s gadget and that made me very very excited. And finally on Jan 27, i watch live coverage of IPad on TechCrunch. So, it will be wonderful experience if i read techcrunch on IPad.

I want this iPad because if you do I’ll tell all the people in my network (FB, Twitter, etc.) about the glory of TechCrunch. I’ll also go to 100 blog posts about the iPad and write a relevant comment in each one and then include a P.S. statement about the amazing generosity of TechCrunch (with different links to iPad posts on TC). Scout’s promise.

I feel I would be the best candidate for such an influential piece of Apple history. I am a former Robotics Engineer for Daimler Chrysler, private inventor, nerd extremet 20-something year old that followed the ipad and crunchpad launchings closely. I have been a fan of the Facebook page for some time now. I am an employee of a Global CDN provider as well as Major Usenet provider that is developing apps to allow Usenet access from an iPhone and iPad. This would be excellent to use at the office for beta testing.

P.S. Arrington, Skoop says you are a noob. Shout out to William Shatner LOL

I should win because it doesn’t support multitasking and neither do I.

It must be mine because I have a hole in my sock.

I really dont get the whole hype of the ipad, infact i am a huge fan of this site:
(NSFW – adult)
http://bit.ly/bL7qJI
because of the hype… and thats exactly why i think i should get one of these free… to tinker with and see if there really is something to get excited about.

If its good, i’ll be a converted cynic, if not i’ll be telling the world how right i was from the beginning ;)

I’ll blend it.

Oh, why not, I’d love to take home an iPad.

Because I’m a gadget maniac and I can’t afford it right now . Would be a nice gift :P

This is going to revolutionize my cockpit resource managment in the airplanes I fly. No more paper charts and plates. Woot! So I’m think one for the wife, one for me, and one for the plane. Come one…hit me up, please!

The iPad must be mine because I have an iPhone and I keep going to an old carnival wish machine trying to make it “Big” and it has yet to have transpired. Now is my chance!

The iPad is almost as cool as the JooJoo, but since the Joojoo is never going to happen I’ll settle for an iPad.

Possessing the Ipad would allow my techno-coolness to rise above the average techno dude, thus enabling me to sway more souls with the techno wonders that I possess. I would use this techno enhancement to change the world and make it a better place to live.

:)

I don’t deserve this i-pad. I would like this i-pad for one reason: To donate it to someone who would need it more than myself. Additionally, since most people who would win this thing, would sell it and pocket the cash, I would also sell it and donate the cash to a worthy organization.

I will track the donation process through a website! THIS is why you should pick me.

well, I can’t really convince you in picking me. I have never been lucky to win something in my life. but maybe, this will be something to be proud of.

hope I will win this Ipad, ofcourse I will read techcrunch with it :)

k1

I need it to be part of the revolution!

I’ll be really interested to see what sales are for the ipad in the first week.

I want the iPad because i NEED it! :P

I wanna surf the web with my fingers in my bed! :D

“Hey, I’ll tell you what. You can get a good look at a butcher’s ass by sticking your head up there. But, wouldn’t you rather to take his word for it?”

-Tommy Boy

For once in my life I want to feel like an early adepter. The fact is that I always come up to late. well, not late late but not to early as well. I want to feel like a tech star, Just once, seriously, I think it would be very exciting experience for me.

I saw this from an arrington re-tweet. Does that mean he is eligible to win too?

I want a ipad because my multi focal contacts are still not good enough to read the small print on my ITouch. I thank you and my eyes thank you.

I need one because it’s my birthday… next month.

my mom moved to europe about 10 years ago.

i want her to have her first Mac.
i want her to have her first Portable Mac.
i want it to be an iPad.

(to replace a lifetime of Generic PC’s and Laptop PC’s that have always been 5 years behind the current model)

mom, this one’s for you!

Yo

I should win the iPad because I promise to put it to good use :) … also I am one of those people who never wins anything! it would be really nice for a change :))

Can’t wait to get an iPad :) so please let me win this one.

I should seriously get the iPad. The reason is that I am the most curmudgeonly person about the iPad on the planet. I don’t think it’s going to revolutionize publishing. I don’t think it serves a need. I’m disgusted that Apple is making a computing advice that excels at consumption but fails so utterly at contribution. A coronary-inducing on-screen keyboard and lack of multi-tasking insures that this device, for most people, will serve as yet another way to atrophy both mind and body in a big comfy chair by passing hour after hour passively consuming media. If I owned one it would almost certainly sit on my coffee table serving as a coaster, dead and out of batteries.

Nothing would indicate runaway success more than if I actually found the iPad useful. I’m betting I won’t.

Plus, I like new toys.

‘Cause I ain’t gonna buy one….

I need this because 17″ laptops aren’t really portable.

OOH OOH PICK ME! PICK ME!

I have to give a reason? Hmm! Trying to think of something amusing, it’s 5.30pm, going home shortly, oh dear can’t be bothered.

JUST GIVE IT TO ME ALREADY.

I need this because I’ll give it to my Grandmother.

This article told me to do it:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/31/ipad-moms-next-computer/

i must have this ipad because i can’t possily afford it! please please please!!!

I would LOVE to have one of these

I must have the iPad because I am destined to exploring the wonder world of Apple! First my iTouch which I prized so dearly was stolen THEN my iPhone developed dead pixels in the screen which now puts me in the new Apple categories of iBroke and iNeed so please help me join the iPad group! Don’t think about it just hand it over to me!

I need it to prove my wife wrong (she doesn’t believe that it’s just an iPod that’s too big for your pocket or a netbook without the keyboard- or any of the other useful features my netbook has!)

Put me in the drawing please!

This device is mine because I went through all the effort to type all of the letters that form this sentence.

It would be a good warm-up to the new one.

This would be great for university use, not having to carry around all those books and notebooks instead just use the iPad.

Only the iPad truly understands me!

We wants one we does. Shiny. Pretty. Trixie Apple makes it and we wants it, Precious. Gollum.

I need an iPad to further advance my quest for intergalactic domination

Sign me up — free fits my budget.

I’d love to win the iPad, because I’m curious about it but don’t really care to buy the version 1.0 which I’m sure will be obsolete by next year.

OOH! OOH! PICK ME! PICK ME!

I would love to own an I-Pad however I will tell you I will not be purchasing one any time soon. I am presently unemployed and can not afford something like this right now but would love to receive one. Gotta love TechCrunch and Arrington.
Thanks for the I-pad :-) in advance

Gimme one so I can video conference with steve jobbers himself…does it have a camera?

I have padded my house with tinfoil so my wireless won’t escape. I just need an Ipad to catch it, and take it back home so we all can be a class c family again. all yours

MR OnlyGettingAnIpad4Free

I want to have a shiny toy and deprive Steve Jobs of $499 at the same time. It’s like legally stealing from Uncle Steve.

How could you live without the iPad?????? I mean how old fashioned is it to sit around the house surfing the internet on a laptop or desktop…Why don’t I just get out my 2600 Baud Modem and put the phone handle into it…What more is there to say hours and hours of surf time, all your apps, games, email, really what more is there in life.

Thanks Steve,
Go Apple!

Tim

I want to get one of these for my mom. She has an eight year old iMac that’s pooping out on her and this device is perfect for everything she does. Would you leave an old lady without her email?

I’d actually like to see how useful it is as a platform as a mobile media professional. Will it replace my laptop, will it keep me from purchasing an
e-Reader – right now its all hype, spin and speculation.

I want it as i currently have a 6.5 yr old desktop which randomly hangs and hence does not allow me get my daily fix of TechCrunch!!!!!!

I need one as I am a TechCrunch and Apple Addict!

I hope I win! It will be my first Apple product ever.

I need an iPad cause it is beautiful!!

It has been foretold: “If James does not have an iPad within one month of launch day, the great slumbering beasts of the deep will rise up and wreak untold chaos and mayhem upon the surface of the earth.” And I’m broke so only you, Michael Arrington, can save the world from annihilation.

Hi,

i need the iPad because my notebook will be dead soon i guess ;( the hd makes strange sounds

I don’t have a moblie phone.

I use a pre-paid moblie internet usb stick dongle thingamajig. (in Australia no less)

I use XP.

The last game I played was Ghost Recon…and that was last week… I found it with a whole bunch of 8 games sitting next to the charity donation ins down the street. The last gae before that was unreal tournament… the first one from… 99 ? cant remember.

I have a 5$ mouse/keyboard/speakers setup. (that’s 5$ max for all three together wholesale)

hmm. lets see what else… I guess providing pics would be useless but I would allow somebody you trust from my city to drop by and confirm.

I’m so far outside apple’s target demo even microsoft dont gvie a shit about me.

there is no way I would ever be able to afford an ipad… and i would ave to buy something to network wirelessly…

Can you throw in a wireless network card ?? Used of course… I dont need anything new or any fancy features.

I would be the envy of my wife, who won’t let me buy one. And she’d be amazed that I actually won something since I’m 0-1,458 in giveaway contests…

The iPad is not the device for me until somone can fill in the dots. To many unanswered questions about what I can actually load on this device. Might be another disappointment like the NOOK.

I WANT iPAD

I need this because I travel all the time to see my boyfriend who is in the military. Bringing my heavy MacBook pro is difficult and the battery only lasts me 45 min! Please please choose me!

I need one so I can save one iPad from having this happen to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gA16Fq4SAo
(this is just wrong!)

Greatest contest ever? I think so

I deserve this device cause you said it would be given to a random user and name is Random Gas. I also have a random address.

WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER. (PICK ME!)

As probably the only Baby Boomer in the group, I need this to show your parents and grandparents how to operate theirs.

because my iphone doesn’t provide enough screen real estate when i’m on the loo

I want the iPad for development!

For my children to play cool games!

I would like an iPad because every other Apple device I’ve ever had is broken, or is breaking.

free works for me

It should be mine because I will do a deep and meaningful analysis of it – then let the kids play with it because, hey that’s what its for, right?

Went ahead with becoming a Fan at Facebook to Tweeting the Post, Hope we win because we cannot Order the iPad and we need it desperately to try it out, write reviews and guides! :)

So I’ll never be without my daily TechCrunch fix!

Won’t one but college keeps taking my money

I don’t want an iPad. I need an iPad!

generations of iMac, generations of iPod, generations of iPhone, now how much does apple want out of my pocket :)
Soon I will be labelled ‘iBroke’ ;)

So abracadabra may my wish come true,
a gift of iPad may be due!!

This device must be mine because I need something to do on the toilet! Interpoop for the win…. Hey – at least I’m being honest.

I am always interested in new technology and the iPad fits that bill. This would be a great traveling buddy.

Me! Me! ’cause I can’t justify spending $500 for a toy, no matter how sexy.

I can haz iPad!? kthxbai!

I want the iPad simply to disprove all the faults I know it will have. If it’s free, I’m sure I will love the device!

I’m not sure I deserve to win the Ipad but I would still love to win it! Either way congrats to the lucky winner.

I need this device to prove to all my friends why they need to wait for a non-apple OS tablet.

Tried to reserve via Apple site but kept getting “select a state” message after choosing CA (or any other state.) Came here looking for possible news of site problems, found the giveaway, fanned facebook. Help me Obi Wan Kentechcrunch, you’re my only hope.

Everyone will make fun of me if I don’t have one.

Well as a student, I love to see how this can be used for taking notes during lectures.

I deserve this iPad because I´m a big Apple fan for a long time, because I dont have the money to buy it, because I´m a blogger (sergiodaza.net) that follows Techcrunch on Twitter, also on Facebook and Google Reader. I´m your winner…pick me!!

Because my iPhone’s screen is just too small for watching videos and really surfing the web…oh, and I’d probably gift it to my Mom anyway!

Wow, why are you all trying to be funny…Its a RANDOM drawing….right.
So randomly send one my way, so I can give it to my wife and destroy the PC and stop being her tech support.

iPad + A TechCrunch T-Shirt? Count me in, I’m all about that!

I’m in it just for the t-shirt.

Ah, a giveaway. Since it only takes a comment, I’ll try… But it’s not like I’ve ever had much luck with these things. Albeit my near sinister misfortune in such things, thanks for the oppurtunity.

DO WANT! ^^

And even if I don’t win: nice job guys, your blog’s the best in its field, by far.

BTW, any plans to resuscitate TC France ?

Charles

Still having a tough time justifying the price tag to the other half. I’d love to take this on a test spin.

I’d like to own one for 4 reasons in order of importance:

1) I’d have a cooler device than my wife’s iPhone, and I’ll be able to bring it in bed with us.
2) When I go into a coffee shop, I will be the most desired person on the face of the Earth.
3) I could defeat Chuck Norris.
3) I’d like to develop a Point of Sale application on it.

i neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed it the most..give it to me

free works

I want an iPad to try out the first ever tablet device of my life :(. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee

I am brave enough to try B-) confident enough to win :P

I’m sure that if I get an iPad 1st gen it will be a nice addition to the iPod 1st gen, iPod Touch 1st gen, and iPhone 1st gen. Can’t just wait until it will be available over here!

It has to be mine because I need my daily techcrunch dose.

Gotta get me an iPad

Because my netbook is dying, and unfortunately I won’t be able to replace it – with a netbook or an iPad – until December at the earliest. Terrible, I know.

But everything I do with it, I could do more easily with the iPad!

Pick me. I’ll use it as the most expensive cutting board ever to make an apple pie with.

1 – Soak iPad in liquid nitrogen
2 – Drop forcefully onto hard surface
3 – Find out .. “Will it Shatter?”
4 – Videotape above, upload to Youtube
5 – Give artist pal fragments to create a piece of art
6 – Auction artwork on eBay
7 – Donate winning bid to charity

Andrew

The iPad is for my wife, a Developmental Psychology PhD student, who spends a lot of time observing toddler’s behavior in daycares, and can’t really log her observations on a laptop in that setting…

ooooooooo pick me

The Apple IPad was made for me!

I want one so I can give it to my non-profit Kabbalah teacher

four kids one laptop
there must be a better way
perhaps mike’s ipad

I am a public school teacher and am addicted to technology, and need to stay one-step-ahead of my students… Let me in on the cutting edge… And I have only ever owned Macs, since my dad brought home the first “portable computer” the Mac plus which came with a carrying case!

Pick me! Pick me! I would love to have this.

I really would love to have an iPad! Imagine a coffee table laptop that is ready to lookup any information at a moments notice, without having to boot it. Also consolidating books and magazines into one device is simply cool.

Thanks Tech Crunch!

I look forward in getting my iPad…pick me!

Fanned ya, tetweeted, commented, prayed to the heavens above, did the hokey pokey and I turned all about, currently bouncing on legs with tongue wagging like Pavlov’s dogs! MUST – HAVE – iPAD. Please, cure me of my delirious state!

Thanks for the opportunity, Crunchers. You guys RAWK!

This device could be the road to recovery for myself and Yahoo! If I had this device it would prevent (but not fully stop of course) drinking in the mornings, which ulimately led to the creation of Yahoo! Yodel and the Microsoft partnership. For the sake of a struggling Internet icon, please send it to me. Thank you very fuckin much.

#Isignoffusinghashtags #carolfuckinbartz #bourbon

pick me

DO WANT! ^^

(sorry if this double posts)

Don’t pick me i don’t want it

This device needs to be mine because, my iphone is getting too small

Need I say more than — PRETTY PLEASE!!!!!

It must be mine. I can’t afford to pay for another boat anchor and a clsoe friend bet me $5,000 that I would never own an Apple product.

I need one because I’m still using my ipod from 2005, and if I’m going to come out of the Apple dark ages, I might as well do it in style.

I promise to provide a good home for my iPad. My whole family will exercise him every day, and feed him every ten hours as recommended. Although I suspect with all the exercise he will probably get hungry sooner, so we will feed him more often if that’s the case. He will never be lonely. In addition to my family, we are expecting a companion for him, due to arrive in late April.

He will travel with us everywhere.

I will love him, and squeeze him, and I will call him George.

I deserve an iPad because my wife wants one too and I can’t afford two!

I would love to win one because I love everything Apple do and if I can kiss goodbye to my manky, crumb invested and germ ridden pc or laptop keyboard then great…touch screen technology is the way forward!

Having one of the first iPads will make me feel better about my ever increasing bald spot on my head. People won’t stare at the large shiny void on my dome, but instead at the amazing piece of mult-touch awesome in my hands.

I think it would be awesome to have one of these. Was possibly thinking of getting one but dont have the money right now. On tap of that the 16GB iPad would go perfectly with my 16GB iPhone!!

Because I’ve been watching former Best Picture films on my iPhone and this is No Country for Tiny Screens.

if I get this I will give this to my 68 y/o mum.
I’ve been trying to convince her to get rid of her Windows dinosaur and get a mac for ages now.

the iPad has been called the mum-computer, so that’s who will get it.

(this all seems like a lame excuse to win, but the winner is picked randomly so why would I lie? plus I really will give it to her. I already have an iPhone)

I went to work in the computer industry in 1962, when the computer industry was made up of IBM, NCR and Burroughs and when programming was done in machine language. One of my first jobs was to fill out coding sheets with ones and zeros for the keypunch operators. An ipad would truly be a wonderful reminder of how far we’ve gone from manual typewriters and carbon paper. It also illustrates the Web 2.0 paradigm that the browser is the computer. In that sense, the ipad is a physical representation of the medieval book that came from Gutenberg’s presses and that changed civilization forever.

Free iPad please

I want the iPad because as a man I never used a pad.

… because I want the TechCrunch T-shirt (and I don’t mind the iPAD you are giving away with it) ;-)

I am a blackberry & ultra-portable laptop power-user today. I’m constantly looking at netbooks and tablet/reader devices as a wait-and-see approach – so far I don’t think my life will be changed by any of these devices. I also don’t yet have home media center setup – we have a laptop plugged into a TV b/c its just easier. I don’t know that I will ever do code reviews on an iPad, but if I win this iPad it could effect a major change in my computing habits – and of course it would help me keep up with TechCrunch updates at all times…

If I get this I’m gonna dump my lappy for this and carry this baby all the time in school :-D

I’ll take one iPad, thanks.

I would like one becuase I am looking for a new cheese plate.

It’s St. Patricks Day next week… surely an Irish winner would be appropriate!

I had my finger hovering over the “reserve” button until I saw this!

I want the iPad to round out all the redundant hi-tech devices I own.

I need one and it’s not for me but my mother. She is constantly “breaking” her laptop and I’m the only tech support she will call. Since she only checks email, looks at pictures, and browses the occasional knitting website this would be perfect for her. Please my sanity depends on it.

I want one.

F the ipad.
I want a CRUNCHPAD.

Give it to me because I will be the coolest kid at my college with that. All the other hippie apple fan boys will be soooo jealous

Pick me – I need an iPad because it’s almost that time of the month!

hahahahaha!!! =)

No really, please pick me.

Ipad, well…
I want one because well because of my wife…. period

I would like an iPad because every Apple device I have ever had is broken or is breaking…

I could really use this because I’m having a crappy month, and I could really use a tech fix pick-me-up Apple-style, and an iPad would do just that. Oh… and world peace.

I want this iPad,because I think that’s a real cool device and I may want to develop some games for it.

I need an iPad because my Newton MessagePad is no longer meeting my needs.

I haven’t fed my Apple product fix since I got my still-in-use 1st generation iPhone. I think it’s time.

I want the free iPad just to make fun of it….

If you gave it to me, I’d be the coolest rider on the bus. For all fours a day that I spend on the damn bus.

Why the iPad should be mine? Because my girlfriend will probably end up leaving me for a guy who has one if I don’t pick one up.

Fingers crossed. I greatly desire to no longer open my laptop on flights.

I hope I win!

Because it’s not spheric!

So I can rule the world!

it would be useful in keeping my wife and kids from using my laptop.

I want one, but it’s not in the budget right now. Free is definitely in the budget.

I need this because I’m 12 and its not just that I don’t want to pay so much money for this, but I actually can’t afford it. I have a 8GB 1st gen iPhone, but its getting slower and slower, plus I have no more storage space. I love tech but can’t afford a mac or iPad, and would use this for reviews and learning about technology, as well as obviously for personal use.

The iPad could be the device that convinces me apple has some relavance to what I do – I’m an engineer, and to date, none of the software I need to use runs on Mac. The iPad however… that could have some real application for my industry.

Since I’ve bought my two (wink wink!), I’ll need another because we have 4 kids….There will be big fights in our house without another ipad!

gimme, gimmee, gimmeeee

I deserve this toy because my computer is opposite to my TV and consequently I can’t read all techcrunch articles while watching TV. With the ipad you would gain one faithful couch potato reader

Really want one. Can’t buy one now.

I don’t know whether or not I really want to win this. I love the idea of a tablet, but at the same time the app store seems like such a restriction.

I got the perfect bag for a iPad!

Great, I am so in!

This one has my name on it :)

I want this!! for books :)

Please give me one because it’s exactly the kind of thing I would buy if I have disposable income.

Plus I’m sure my 5 non-bot followers would appreciate a “#w00t I #just #won an #iPad! #bejealous” tweet from me.

I need an interactive tray to serve drinks on, and an MS Surface is just too large to take to the poll so the iPad will be just perfect!

I need to have another way to sped money in the iTunes store and subject myself to vendor lockin! Seriously, though, I have a HP laptop that I sat on the screen of so said screen has large cracks running through it, and I have a 2nd gen iPod touch. I am pretty sure at this point that I have bought just about every rss app in the app store. What thr has to do with anything, I am not sure. Before I got my iPod, I would look at the cool new apps with envy. I would like not to have to go thourgh the same thing again. Oh, and it may well convince my grandparents that they need a 3G madel, since they currently have a old sony vaio desktop with 64mb of ram that plays solitare and wordperfect. Yes, 64 megabytes. And it’s on dialup.

Simply to browse Techcrunch!

Would love to use the iPad until the iMattress is released

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45 reasons why! :)

I’d love to win one and can only imagine how excited my husband would be if I did.

I wants it because it’s my precious!

My precious!

I am a huge apple user (though not a fanboy) and am currently an unemployed tech worker. I would love the iPad so I have something to do while waiting to pick up my kids after school. Plus it can’t hurt to show up for an interview with the latest technology. Always a good icebreaker whether you are pro or anti iPad.

Thanks.

I’ll wear the shirt a lot and develop an app for the iPad if I win.

I probably don’t deserve the iPad more or less than anybody else.

I’d like to think I’m a “high disposable income influencer” but that’s debatable.

But I’m definitely a random reader who hopes to get lucky.

And I’m not above bribery. Anybody at Techcrunch want a $25 gift purchased using my Amazon glitch certificate?

Cause I’m a apple fanboy from back in the day

I want it bacause your price seems fair.

We seek the giveaway iPad because we wish to develop applications for next generation nuclear power plant technologies, to decrease global warming and increase energy supplies.

Pre-order Your iPad Today!…

Ok, so we have to admit Apple’s new iPad has its shortcomings. It has no built in camera or microphone, no USB ports, no Flash support (which basically every video website uses), and its running iPhone OS which means it can’t truly multi-ta…

Before the official release, there was iPad hype. Major hype. The release was somewhat of a let down and all I heard were comments about the iPad being more like an overgrown iPod touch. The eagerness left me for a month… but now’s it back again! The hype is back! I want one! (I pre-ordered, but I can always use another!)

Just ’cause…I mean, why not…

Two simple reasons: 1) tech/mobile enthusiast and early adopted, so would welcome the chance to test it out for no cost and – more importantly – 2) my kids (7 & 3) use the computer, but it’s still a bit awkward for them at times. They both enjoy using my iPhone and do well with it, but the small size/keyboard poses issues also. I am curious to see how they do with what could essentially be considered a “big iPhone” as this could potentially become a great educational tool that breaks the barriers for kids to better utilize technology (my hypothesis). Thanks!

I’m an avid TechCrunch reader, always keeping an eye out here for competition here on TechCrunch.com. You guys helped me find one potential competitor for my startup last week, and even helped me find a competitor for my buddies startup, Thanks team TechCrunch! Also I am senior year business student in college who is actively pursuing a high tech startup. (AKA I’m poor). I have just barely been getting by, in fact i had to sell my IpodTouch 3 months ago to help with bills. It would be nice to be back on board with apple.

I don’t deserve an iPad, but it would be a good experience to try out something I would otherwise not likely buy.

This would make a sexy Boxee remote.

Count me in

Let me sweeten the deal….I’ll add a TechCrunch logo to the iPad version of the app. :)

i wanna ipad…else you will hear from chuck norris! and you know how that conversation goes!

Here is hoping…

I want one, to be convinced that I need one.

I need one to be cool.

I have a bet to win: my view is that this product will rock the senior’s world, and I have to get it for my dad to prove that even a tech-phobic 70 yo. man can appreciate this baby

I need an iPad because it’d be the perfect computer for my mom.

…and there’s no way in hell she’s getting one before I do.

Ipad is really gonna be great in my hands … Its got a great “Color” screen which was missing in the similar devices like the kindle

I have a MacBook Air (which I love), and so I can’t quite justify buying an ipad – but I really would like one.

This will allow me to carry TechCrunch with my all over the house. :-)

Derek

The HP Touchsmart TM2 is way better!

I want the iPad to prove my anti-Apple attitude wrong.

Dear TechCrunch,
If I win this device, it will be the apple of my ipad.

I’m still slightly skeptical about the “magical, revolutionary” device, but I’m willing to be won over.

If I win, I’ll report back as to whether my skepticism was well-founded or not!

Love my iPhone. Would like to try the upgrade.

I’ll die if I don’t get one.

I need it because even if I want, I can’t get one for another who-knows-how-many months here in Germany!

yes please!!!

It should be mine because I am super excited for this, but don’t have disposable income!

Because I deserve it.

PS: I’m local so you’ll save on shipping ;-)

I want the ipad so I can give this to my mom. I think this will seriously change her life from reading books to a digital pad. I prefer a netbook anyday but it doesn’t hurt to win something for my mommie.

-Tone

I would love to develop a certain (web)app for the ipad if I could get my hands on one, however, despite the fact that Dutch is one of the few supported langauges, it isn’t launching in the netherlands and either way I don’t really have the budget right now to spend on a ipad. Either way, if I win by any chance I promise to create some type (if the one I am dreaming off proves to be too hard) of cool webapp for the ipad.

What,”every single one of our 9.2 million monthly readers is a high disposable income influencer in technology and media that just loves to try out new things that they see advertised on TechCrunch”
You guys must be smoking some really cheap ganja to come up with this scheme to get free advertising.
Did not think you would sink below sea level…

I need the iPad because the little tiny screens on all other mobile devices are too small and I can’t read them — not that I would ever buy one, but it would be sweeeeet to win one!

Me wikey.

ipad is revolutionary …..so i want it

Yeah, I like it.

April 3rd is my birthday and the ultimate present would be a new iPad to share with my family. My kids would love it!

Hi, I should win because TechCrunch really, really would like me to have one.

Because I can’t get CrunchPad…one pad is as good as another right!

sweet lord, i need one – so I can flaunt it in public everywhere, until i get mugged.

A…pple I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing (…)

Apple after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next world.
Your machinery is too much for me.
You made me want to be a saint.
There must be some other way to settle this argument.

I want an iPad!

ping!

I need to win it because I’m awesome and stuff.

That iPad should be mine to help my plan of world domination.

want this so much, because i don’t think I would buy one! just not good enough. but winning it is a different story.

I’m still using a Pearl as a phone. Lame. And my Macbook is 3+ years old. And (for real) I was foreclosed on last week. So an iPad would be a bit of refreshing coolness (that I would give to my mom when I hopefully get version 3). Love TechCrunch (also for real).

with an ipad, my life would finally be complete.

I think I deserve that iPad because I am a college student. I am planing to become a Electronic Engineer or a high school teacher, I love high tech devices by the way, a device like that could help me a lot :).

I need this iPad to replace the iPod Touch my daughter dropped in her breakfast cereal milk.

I should get one for two reasons:

1. I want to start programming for it.

2. If I don’t figure out how the device enables an evolution of HCI, how will I be able to show those I influence?

I would like to win one because I would never buy one :)

I want to win an ipad because I have been waiting patiently for the release date. I have to have one!

I’m in Europe/Germany where the device will not be available until late april. I’malso starting a start-up, where iPad will take the star role. I really need the device ASAP to develop on the real hardware and be the first (in Europe)

i love reading techcrunch but i can do that only when i am at home. With ipad i can read it whenever and wherever i am. So please make my day, but sending me one

I deserve to get the iPad because I really wanted three but mean Apple limited me to only two :::sniff:::

I’d love an ipad because I can read all my technical docs on it! No more wasted paper!

Done all the required steps.

I need an apple iPad because I’m a blogger and it will make my work easier to update my blog easily with wi-fi connection and other useful functions in it.

I would like to win the iPad, simply because I have never owned an Apple product in my life and would like to see what all the hoopla is about. Is it all true? The coveted Tech Crunch shirt however, will
make me a rock star… which i’m looking forward to! plus our town lost jobs AND at the Oscars.. http://bit.ly/d5DylA geez..

i heard sooo many things about it, pros and cons, so i just wanna try it and see for myself what’s true and what isn’t.

I need a new paper weight.

I deserve this fabulous product as I was the first person to make a joke about its name on Facebook.

Thanks a lot. I love this blog. Very entertaining.

Well, not “all” of your readers are blessed with high levels of disposable income…

I work in the e-book business and I’m very curious about how Apple will be including e-books in what the iPad does.

In theory, I want one to evaluate for clinical apps; in reality, I want one for my 2.5 yo who adores my iPhone, and I want to regain my phone! I’d never spend $500 on an electronic gadget for a preschooler, but would love to port over Teach Me Toddler and LetterTracer.

i want the ipad :)

Because everything is worth trying once!

I must have the iPad… Bottom Line! I love technology. I read every major tech blog that I can find room for. I must have the iPad to read tech crunch everyday. My boss has been getting mad that I spend so much time on Tech Crunch and other tech blogs; reading, commenting, and tweeting about every article on my several different twitter accounts. Having one of these slick little devices would make it much easier to hide my addiction from everyone seeing it up on my computer screen. I MUST HAVE IT TECH CRUNCH!

OK, I’ll bite.

Well, let me see. Give it to me because I f* love apple´s devices. Is there any other reason? ;)

R.

because it will be so much fun

simply because its a great device and i have technology geek. sadly its not releasing in india..so it will be great if u can give me one

I have been an apple girl from when i purchased my first Apple III computer….then the mac classic… the mac portable… Mac G3… the iMac… iBook… EVEN THE QUIRKY Mac cube… ipods, iphones, mac pro… naturally must have the iPad!!! PLEASE ;-)…. thanks for the chance

Been using TC-1100, ready to move on.

I’m basically a gadget freek. But the problem is I don’t have money to buy any of these gadgets. My father does not money for it. Another factor is that I’m the most unlukiest man in this world also. According to me I’m never gonna get this, it is been all these causation

Should be mine, because I’m lucky.

What? A free TC t-shirt, I’m a poor college student who can’t afford clothes. Gimme Gimme!

Must have because I wan’t to see if the reading experience is so great that it is being touted as media saving device.

I can’t afford an ipad and my sons have nicked my ipod.

Looking to explore the capabilities of the iPad in an educational environment. Would be nice to win one.

I admire iPad’s potential and would create some great apps. So far Apple didn’t approve my iPhone App (which was an Augmented Reality app that Layered stuff like Google Goggles by fetching data from google). For the iPad, I’ve lots of good ideas and work is in progress.

I’d like one to replace my 8 GB IPod Touch. My kids were freak out if they could play Plants versus Zombies on the IPad!!!!

Thanks

I am very excited on seeing how this thing could/would be used in higher education.

P.S. I can accept packages.

Crossing my fingers for an iPad! I live in a cardboard box and eat leftover cat food for breakfast, so clearly I deserve it.

* Note: not all facts true in all jurisdictions.

Please Mister Arrington, send me an iPad! I read a ton of books, and I do a lot of traveling. I spend a lot of time in coffee shops too. Help me save the trees! I want to do away with using newspapers! I want to do away with my bookcase! I want to do away with my book collection! Basically, I am very mobile and would love to have I do cooking, so it would make an excellent kitchen tool. It would make my bathroom pooping experience amazing too. It would be my everything!

Posting just to enter the contest. I do think this device with take off in a major way. Thanks.

My son would think I’m the coolest mom in the entire world if I gave him one for his 11th birthday.

Would love to smudge the screen of a brand new touchscreen!!!

It must be mine because we won’t get them here in the UK for a month or so; and because unlike ‘Sheamus’ I can spell my name properly :)

BTW, this reply has my best email included…. Don’t use the other one. :)

I want an ipad even though i already bought one.

Hi,
If you award the IPad to me. I would donate it to a Group home for retarded women in Queens N.Y. The IPad would be used to allow the women to video conference with their relatives.
The group home is run by a charity called the AABR -Association for the Advancement of the Blind Retarded. The women in the group home are not blind and thus the video would work for them. I would be glad to provide detalis and contacts for the group home and for the charity,

Regards,
Marty Perelstein

I just love the iPad..! It’s the coolest thing I have ever seen. I just want to own one.. Please TechCrunch.. I love you..! Hehe.. Hmmm.. I think after months of blogging I do deserve an iPad..! I hope you ll be giving an iPad to me..! :).. Thanks in advance TechCrunch..!

Ashamedly, I’ve been fervently anti-Apple for quite some time now. I thought they overvalued aesthetics as a ploy to sell to girls who wanted pink and turquoise computers.

I guess I’m wrong, as they’ve been so integral in changing the direction of modern and portable computing.

But… I still can’t bring myself to spend what discretionary money I do have on an iPad. Pretty please let me have one, if just to help eradicate my weakening bigotry!

I really need this device because I can’t afford a Macbook and I need one for work and I know it’s not the same as a laptop, but it would totally make my job easier!!!

Please, I read TechCrunch everyday comment frequently and somehow convinced my boss to become a guest author and somehow he convince you lol…

Thanks!

Keep up the good work!

Dave

just want it!!

I want an iPad so I can share it with my awesome ELL 4th grade after-school science club students. I probably don’t deserve it, but they do! :)

I have a bootstrap startup and it would help in sales presentations. And I am a gadget addict but without the means to fuel my addiction.

Please pick me. My husband is a Software Architect and if he buys another Apple product my mother will be up his a## again!

I need the iPad so I can wave it in front of my “Apple Fanboy” buddies and say “See?! See?!…I have an Apple product! I’ve given it a fair try and I still don’t want a F*#^@in’ iPhone!”

I would love to get my hands on to an Apple product. Let’s win and enjoy

I want an iPad and my 5 year-old daugther likes it too.

i like its thinness . . .

Ooo, I would love one for free cause we’re saving all our mula for our baby to come. And I don’t have an iPhone or a Mac so this would be perfect for fantasy football next season.

What is an iPad?

I’d like one because browsing the web on a Kindle sucks.

ok, here’s a comment

I don’t want the iPad. I want the Microsoft Courier.

If the iPad is half addictive as the iPhone is, this device is going to be a major in house internet connectivity breakthough. I just can’t wait to be surfing and checking my mails in my bed using it.

I absolutely need one of these because it’s just so so shiny!

nah. skip it. ipad 1.0 is “ok”

i still just cant believe it wont have a “full” browsing experience. I know that sounds lame but really, if I am spending 500 bucks i want to be able to do anything on the web…fantastic contraptions (a great flash game), Hulu, a bagillion sites with embeded video…google finance, i mean rlly youtube will work but there is a ton of flash and silverlight etc out there and if the internet just doesnt “work” then i’m out.

2.0 will have it or will have all html5 either way.. gimme a damn webcam, full internet, and i’ll be happy and buy ur product.

I’ve already pre ordered two but a third to have one in each bathroom.

I travel a lot and would rather not lug my laptop around.

Why should i get an iPad? Other than making my friends jealous and curious about the new Apple product that joins all the rest of my Apple products at home? Biggest reason(s)? Paying for a wedding and house this year has caused a complete hold on any money that I would spend in a heartbeat on the iPad. Even my fiance removed my “iPad” line item in the home budget. So if I get it, I can show her and not feel guilty for removing half of the new refrigerator budget to buy it on my own.

And if I don’t get it, I become that annoying guy at the coffee shop staring at you from afar drooling over your hand gestures on your iPad.

I need one so I become MAC Addict!

I want this ipad so i can give it to my friend as a gift. She wants one soooo bad and talks about it nonstop. It would be the best gift to a deserving design student trying to make a name for herself.

I don’t know if I deserve any more or less than any other reader and I’m not exactly a “high disposable income influencer”, but I’m definitely a random reader who hopes to get lucky.

And I’ll sing the praises of Techcrunch.com.

Plus I promise to steal one of those B&N nook posters with the Crunchie award mention for you guys.

I’d like an iPad

Well I have not had alot of experiance with the current iphone/ipod. But would love to get the ipad. With 7 kids it is hard to buy things for my self.

“GO TechCrunch”

I really want to be an Apple fanboy, but my pockets aren’t deep enough to buy my way to cooldom…

I feel I would be the best candidate for such an influential piece of Apple history. I am a former Robotics Engineer for Daimler Chrysler, private inventor, nerd extreme 20-something year old that followed the ipad and crunchpad launchings closely. I have been a fan of the Facebook page for some time now.

I am an employee of a Global CDN provider as well as Major Usenet provider that is developing apps to allow Usenet access from an iPhone and iPad. This would be excellent to use at the office for beta testing. Having a solid foundation that would allow end-user consumers to be able to collaborate in a global chat medium, share light binaries (large text, e-books, pictures, audio and video files), and communicate in a secure way I feel is exactly what Steve Jobs had in mind for the purposes of the iPad.

P.S. Arrington, Skoop says you are a noob. Shout out to William Shatner LOL

I would be a deserving winner because I am the biggest apple fanboy who hasn’t pre-ordered an ipad.

Do I have to complete some kind of 15-words-or-less slogan to win?

I friggin hope not…

I’d like to have it for http://www.stiri.it, a romanian it news website. We don’t get sponsored and i’d like to talk about iPad, and also test it.

Because I’m a convert. I was anti iPad until yesterday when I saw a commercial. I’ve been saved. Hallelujiah, I’ve been saved.

I want it to give to my mom so that she can have all she needs in a portable device that I won’t have to support so much.

Dearest Crunchingtons,

Why bequeath upon me thus afforementioned iPad? Well, because my income is sadly not highly disposable. I can’t use my benjamins to wipe my hither quarters. However, I am a loyal and dedicated fan of you and your kin and would love some of your techocity to enrich me through the form of an iPad. Many thanks in advance for laughing at this post and possibly granting my humble plea for paddage.

Much love.

It must be mine because I’m a programmer looking forward to develop an innovative app for the ipad!

If I don’t get one, I’ll die.

Maybe not. But I have a fever, and the only prescription is an iPad.

I’d really like that ipad.

please, please, please…..then I wont have to hide it from my wife for a few months!!!

I want this because… well, I just want it. I’m not going to start kissing TechCrunch’s backside just to make me look like a number one fan. I enjoy reading the site, but that doesn’t matter – I just want an iPad. Simples.

iWant iThe iPad iSo iCan iLearn iTo iRead iAnd iWrite iIn iApple iCamel iCase.

Hey, I’d love an iPad I would be able to use it for taking much needed notes in class!

I need one for my goldfish.

Because my iTouch is under the sofa…or in the back seat of the car…or…

Gotta be mine, all mine, my precious

I’m an Italian web developer. I never have an Apple device ( only iPod nano first generation ) and I really want to win one of this.

Please choose me becouse I’m from Italy and I don’t know how much time I have to wait untill Apple will sell iPad in my country ( i will pay all the SS :P ). I need a new device to read tech crunch feed rss ( maybe with Google Reader Play :) ), develop some cool games for apple store, and make some reviews of the new iPad for the blog where I write at the moment that talk about iPad’s news: http://www.ipader.it

Thank you very much for listening me. See ya, Emanuele.

I need this cause Steve Jobs told me it’s magical.

I would love an iPad

Maybe I can sell it.

I could write something funny to get noticed, or I could write a tale of woe hoping for sympathy but I’ll spare you. I’ll just say that I’m a social media editor for a 20k circ newspaper in Nebraska.

We’re doing great things here with whatever tools we can scrounge up with our own money. An iPad would go a long way toward helping me push my newspaper to the forefront in Nebraska as a leader in using new tech to reach our readers.

Thanks and good luck to everyone!

This device must be mine so you can show a picture of me with a smile from one ear to the next

Because you got me all worked up to buy a Crunchpad…it only seems fair that you sport me the next best thing!

Bring it!

If I win this Ipad I will sell my IBM notebook and buy a move to a Macbook Pro!!!!!

this device must be mine because I have been a reader since before Arrington and this site were super popular… ;-)

i’m in b-school, and my goal is to make all of my d-bag colleagues jealous!

I want the iPad because I probably can’t have it. You see, I’m from Romania and I’ll probably have to wait a long time until it becomes avaliable over here, in easter europe, at a higher price then US. So … can I haz iPad? Please :)

This iPad must be mine so I can have it surgically implanted into my chest and become an iHuman, a fully-owned subsidiary of Apple. But I will be a friendly cyborg with a prime directive to spread the TechCrunch love.

The iPad must be mine because I mistakenly bought and eyePad instead!

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I need this device for its use as comic relief

I want my kids to stop asking me for my iphone all the time to play games, etc…With an iPad I can just hand them one in the backseat and enjoy some peace and quiet!!!!

I like rectangles.

I’m dying to get my hands on one. I will be all drool when I enter an Apple store to demo one out. I live in Wyoming so our closest is 4 hours away in Denver. If you gave it to me, I’d be about as rural as the winner from Romania. Yes we do accept packages here, pony express that iPad to my front door please TechCrunch!!! :o)

Music, movies, a journal to ignite my creativity, connected to family and friends with the internet…isn’t this what we want from our !!! A device as simple as a toaster to turn on and use…one that anyone can walk in an figure out a toaster – that’s how our computers will be. something my 82 year old Grandma could use – IF it has solitare?…now I need to get 2, one for me and one for her 83rd birthday next month – concidence that it’s in April as well?

Could the iPad be the device to converge generations from 8 to 80 with the same piece of technology? It’s got the best shot of anything that’s come before it.

I happen to like the iPad, but unless I win this one, I’m going to wait for the second one. I would buy one this generation if the $499 price included 3g.

But who can beat getting it from Techcrunch, eh?

Be great to be one of the first few to own the ipad. Am am avid reader of TC, love all the tech news you guys post..count me in..!..hope i get lucky..good luck to all.:)

I must have it! So I can finally learn to read.

I actually want it for my mom. Then she’d be the coolest grandma on the block.

I want it because, after all, its the iPad. Say what you like, but its a beautiful piece of technology, with a bunch of features. And it may well redefine how we use out portable devices.

So hit me up – I’d like that iPad, TechCrunch! Thanks!

count me in pls

This Device must be mine because?

“It must be”

why not take a chance, after all :)

bcoz I need the ‘magical experience’

I want this device because it should be the best portable pdf reader out there and hopefully I can use it as a medium to show design ideas to other people.

This would be a good for us to have. (yes only good, 3G and external VGA would serve us better) The organization is broke and need some updated technology to continue opperations, our only laptop is held together with duct tape (really, I kid you not). We are a non-profit that gives our services away, we would not only love to have it but you would get a tax break too!!

because a huge iPod would be awesome! i want i want i want. i need i need i neeeeeed! :P

I am a poor college student therefore I have no money to buy an iPad. Therefore I am hoping to win this iPad from you wonderful people at TechCrunch.

I would like the IPAD because I need something to help me surf the web on the go. I do a lot of work on the internet, and not being accessible unless i’m in a computer lab or at home can be tough.

I need the iPad to bring to sales pitches so that I can beat or get bought by Groupon.

iPad, uPad, we all pad.

Bonjour!
I’m a French engineering student in Paris, at the École Polytechnique, and enjoy reading this website daily (if not more often). Upon seeing that this giveaway was up for grabs for international readers as well, I’ve decided to convince you to send me this jewel of technology below.

If I received this iPad, it would not only show your competitors that giveaways are not limited to the US, and that international readers are on par with US/UK readers, (this could be the topic of some smart advertising), but it would also allow me to test my upcoming iPhone/iPad apps on more than just my old iPod touch or my iPhone (I plan to apply for programming classes in the fall, when my core classes will be over.

Moreover, tomorrow, Saturday March 13th is my 20th birthday (honest!), and it would make a nice surprise, since my parents have no idea what to give me, and I don’t have enough to upgrade my old laptop…

Finally, this iPad would be one of the first on this side of the pond, since they won’t be available in Paris until late April, and that would be awesome!

Hoping to see part of the TC crew in Paris someday (soon hopefully),

Quentin

pretty much the ultimate music remote, thats why. Also, easier to skim reader and mail.

I heard u guys are giving away a Tech crunch T shirt… (and apparently throwing in an Ipad too)…. would love to get this…

OK seriously.. student… have always wanted to own something apple ( so i can learn to program for mac).. and of course have something portable (unlike my desktop)… and yes for fun as well….

Pick Me

(PS Big tech crunch fan)

Although embarrassing but I have never owned an Apple product before and this would be a good start. Thanks.

I think you should choose me as the winner as I was the first person worldwide to pre-order an iPad. And if you wanna know, I live in France and will have it delivered to Japan. Don’t you call this an Apple fan?

I need an iPad because I have fat, sausage-like fingers and can’t type on an iPhone/iPod Touch.

We’ve pre-ordered 8 iPads. Two for every member of the family. If you give us one more, we’ll have one for every room in our house.

I need this because its easier to use as a reader/distraction mechanism for school.

and it’s a stepping stone to becoming superficially popular. :D

I can never say no to free… even if I do eventually bite the bullet and get one…

I need the 3rd iPad so I can have one every bathroom.

When I get the iPad, I will reveal who the hacker behind the Google attacks was…

I want an iPad for using as a midi controller (mixer) with touchOSC and Ableton Live!!

thanks!
J

I’d love one of these. Have wanted a tablet for a long time and this looks amazing.

I want it because I already burned through my gadget budget for the year.

…. because I want the T-shirt (and the iPAD that comes with it) ;-)

This has so many applications in our daily life. It will allow:
1. My wife, a photographer, to easily show her portfolio in client meetings.
2. Our family to bond: we’ll sit together with the kids and play educational games.
3. My parents to easily read and send email.
4. Me to stay connected wherever we go.

This will become an invaluable tool!

Good luck to everyone!

I would love an iPad to showcase the ability to use it for mobile grassroots activism and social networking here on a campaign for governor in Vermont!

Thank you so much, TechCrunch…

As much as I want to wait for the next version of the Ipad, I would love to have one to use until that day comes :P

I want an iPad so that I can pinch to zoom on porn. (the iPhone screen just won’t do)

Because I’ll never be able to secure the SAF to buy one myself, but I’m oh-so-curious.

iPad mania today, didn’t think so many people would be interested in the iPad, I guess Apple will be selling a lot of these despite the fact that most Apple product owners said they won’t buy one.
Anyway I’d really like an iPad, there won’t be any iPad in my country until December I guess and my dog needs a frisbee to play with so hope I win :D

I bought an iPhone for my wife last Xmas and she was angry because of the monthly data plan charge. And she hated browsing web on mobile phones.

I want to give her an iPad and see how she would respond. She must be more angry. Then tI’ll ell her this is actually free, with a much larger screen. Imagine that…

I must have this IPad since I love tech, but can’t afford it since having two kids…. All my tech is at least 5 years old. Let me see what 2010 feels like.

ok, here’s my post, now where’s my iPad?

It should be mine because I’ll be single if I spend that much money on yet another gadget!

Because I am a Windows tool and need to shed, if even just for a fleeting moment, some of my lameness.

I need this device to read my daily fix of TechCrunch :)

Hope i Will win the ipad. I read a lot at techcrunch,but This would be the best thing in my life. I think i am going to pray the whole day :)

Looking forward to the launch of iPad…tired of developing for iPhone and iTouch…need something big screen….as they say it Size Matter !!!!

I just want to take the heavy school backpack off my back and load all the books in my iPad. Can’t wait for one!

Stellar female programmers are rare, and my fiancee is one of them. I’ll be a HERO if I get her one for her April bday, so she can start working on iPad apps.

I want one because I’m poor.

I would give this to my Mom so she can play friends with words with me.

my husband and kids usually get all the fun toys

I have an iPad on pre-order (I’m an iPhone software developer, I gotta have one!), but I’d love to give one to my 67 year old mom, who doesn’t understand the difference between left-clicking and right-clicking, and still doesn’t get when she’s supposed to single-click or double-click. I’d love to give her an iPad for her birthday (April 23) so she can get rid of her aging Windows XP machine, but I lack a stable income right now and cannot justify purchasing two.

All my family’s other laptops are dying. Pick me! Pick me!

Mmmmmm.

This would be the ultimate for me (at least until the next groundbreaking Apple product comes out). It would aid me in work, personal life, EVERYTHING. it’ll reduce the need to carry notebooks, books, game systems when I travel and would lighten my load as far as carryon baggage is concerned. :)

I want the ipad because I cannot afford to buy one. Please give me an ipad.

Because I just gotta have one.

OK this is going to sound ridiculous but I need an iPad cause when I’m ready to head to the bathroom and “take the browns to the Superbowl” I need to stay connected. I spend at least 10 minutes doing my thing. That’s 10 minutes that I could be getting down to business… amongst other business… But seriously I need a gadget I can take the can. Thank you guys!

I want to go to there.

I find it ironic that people are using a post about giving away a FREE iPad, to troll spew their dislike of the iPad. Not surprising, jut ironic. As i’d assume their comment would count in the running to receive one. Anyways, please pick me.

I’m a high tech influence who makes cool software (http://jason.sperske.com/) but I don’t have a lot of disposable income. I am sold on the Apple Kool Aid though. A free iPad would help me keep my good standing in the Apple club without forcing me to choose between dinner and the ultimate portable media device. Oh who am I kidding, I’ll make that choice no matter what happens, so Michael think of my children, because when it comes to new gadgets I’m probably not going to!

Pick me!! I’ll use it for a medical practice!!

I’m skeptical, what with the lack of flash and all… but I certainly wouldn’t kick one out of bed :)

I just want to take the heavy backpack off my back and load all the school books in iPad. Can’t wait for one!

I want an iPad because I’m having my period.

Me! Me! Me! Over here! I’ll happily grovel for an iPad!

I’m an old-school journalist in need of a new platform (and a new life!)

I am a poor guy and can’t affort to buy ipad so it must be mine. :(

I want it becauseI need an iPad every 28 days!

I need to give it to friend so he can loose a bet that he wouldn’t get an iPad so I can humiliate him!

hook me up, I need one of these! what did I ever do before this was invented and marketed to me…oh wait what am I doing?

I want a free iPad because my MacBook Pro just broke down and cost $303 to fix, so now I can’t afford an iPad!

Unemployed (lets hear it for mergers and acquisitions) and developing what I hope will be the killer app for social media on the iPad … but only able to test on a simulator :(

Catch 22 – how do you develop for a device you don’t have the money to afford that would earn you the money to afford the device you need.

Is the iPad a game changer? No, but its pushing the rules. Great apps will be the part of the equation that pushes it over the edge.

I deserve the free iPad because I’m not English. Now you’ve got both options.

The iPad should be mine because of thoses reasons

1) I’m French
2) ?????
3) Profit !

thx

I want an ipad because I need more realestate for the techcrunch app!! :)

Larry

-Sent via TechCrunch App

Really who is going to buy to Ipads, Which one of yer is that uber gadget geek.

I must have one because I can’t stand watching my parents still having trouble using mouse on a computer, asking me where the cursor is now, what to do whenever a popup comes up asking about updates, virus warnings, etc… while all they care is just being able to use the browser and enjoy the Internet!

I was visited by a future version of myself. I pleaded that we acquire an iPad or all of humanity would be in danger. So, what im trying to say is… Do you really want to be responsible for ending humanity? yea, just work it over tough guy!

I want it foooor : design, features aaaand it`s awesomeness !!!

I want an Ipad because I need one every month…

Why i want the ipad!

- couse 3 years ago, I was one of the people who work to transform real books in ebooks.

I transform more then 10.000 books from British library in ebooks…waiting that a tehnology like iPad appears so I can enjoy of my work

Couse i was a pioneer of this, and bring a 0.001 contribution to what iPad can do today!

It’s a bigger iPhone… and that’s EXACTLY why I want it. I have man hands.

I need to be picked up a winner because ill proudly wear the techcrunch shirt where ever i go and this is not it. I wont buy any other case or something for the Ipad. i will cover it with The techcrunch tshirt.

So that every one will know that i got it from you guys. its a win win.

I want one so me and my kids (2 and 4) can play games without trying to huddle around a tiny iPhone screen. They’ve even started trying to interact with the tv, which is where I think the ipad will really shine.

Wife’s birthday is April 12th….enough said.

Cause I’m in Canada and don’t want to wait the extra month for it to get here.

I have been following Tech crunch and mobile crunch for a long time, now that i am connected with it more by becoming a fan (long back) and connected in twitter so that i get the updates quickly. by having the ipad, i can access these things on the fly no matter where i am. ipad is such a handy thing and will never stop me in taking it everywhere i go(unlike my laptop). i do not own a ipod, so this device will certainly help me to catch up with everything that is happening around..

Oops forgot a letter , I mend two IPADS. :)

ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I deserve an ipad because I am a huge believer in apple products and this would be great addition. I would buy one myself but since I am a college student I cannot afford one. this would be great for me when i travel so i could keep up with the latest tech crunch news!

I need one because I need a way to surf the web easily while watching Arrested Development.

Because I’m a very special person. My fortune cookie told me so.

I think I should when because of my religious following to TechCrunch. I wake up and read it every morning before I shower, then I read it on my phone on the train on the way to work, read it at work, on the way home, after dinner, and right before I go to bed. I even read it when I wake up in the middle of the night dreaming of Crunch Gear. Tech Crunch has taken over my life, I’m gonna lose my job, my girlfriend because of Tech Crunch…so at least give me an I Pad…. :-)

Wow, so many haters. I want the Apple iPad because I like it and will really use it. It will go well with my MacBook Pro and iPhone too. =)

why not me???? :)

I want the ipad because my mac book doesnt work anymore

coz I have never owned a apple product!!

Because it has always been my life-long dream to be the crewman who has something important for the captain to sign and then send me on my way.

It could be worse. They could assign me to away team missions.

I need one because my two year old won’t give me back my iPhone. :D

Hi
I would love to win this iPad . I really want one. If i win ill make an Ellen Feiss type video telling the world why they should get one :)
Im sure your advertisers will love that :)

P.S. ive never made an ad video before

This must be mine because I love TechCrunch! (Oh, and because I can’t afford it otherwise)

I would love to win the iPad for two reasons:

1) It’s mothers day in the UK this Sunday – I’d love to give this to my wife as a Mum’s day gift since she’s an awesome mother.

2) I really want a Techcrunch t-shirt. I would keep this for myself.

I need this because I am old and need to be dragged into the tech area – free is a great “drag me in.”

I like free stuff.

would love to test one.

iWant an iPad.

Whoa whoa whoa! You didn’t choose me?

not a fan of the ipda but will take a free one!

I’ll pass. Why not give one to someone who really needs it and can’t afford it. Instead of some suckass who simply promotes you? Sheesh, what a world we live in.

I would love to see the random algorithm used to pick people. :)

In addition to being a Highly Disposable Income Influencer, I’m also an Apple fan AND a photographer who NEEDS one for mobile showcasing of all of my photos living in the clouds.

This iPad must be mine so I can make everyone who actually paid for an iPad jealous of my lucky free gloriousness…. especially my best friend who just pre-ordered his.

I guess I would also use it to showcase my art portfolio when I pitch dealers and galleries.

I have never, and probably will never, pay for an apple product. But this might be one I’d be willing to give to my kids, even at the risk of them becoming mactards.

An iPad would be a nice gadget for a hard working CS PhD student.

I need to one to keep one step ahead of my wife. Know how emascualting it is for her to have better toys??

I hate technology! But I need an iPad so I can learn to love it.

I have two laptops. The monitor hinges are broken on one and the keyboard is broken on the other. The iPad has neither… it will last forever!

I have never been able to afford an Apple device before; I’d really like it to be the Ipad my first Apple product.
We are neighbors so it wouldn’t be too much of a hustle to mail down to Mexico.

Pick me because I am exactly the type of reader you described above except the rich part!

Because my wife, no matter how many hints… will never see that I need this for my Birthday.

Sure, I’d love to get my hands on this puppy. I’m an Android phone user and I love it… but I have missed out on the iPhone experience — bring it on!

“Ask not what TechCrunch can do for you, but what you can do for TechCrunch”.
I can squeeze myself into your tight T-shirt, and head to your offices…
Win-Win on your side, and DD coming from mine.
You know you want it…

2 reasons, 1) I can’t afford one. 2) I want to prove to my skeptic friends that even Apple hasn’t figured out all the possible uses of this thing beyond a glorified e-reader. And I will share my experience with Tech Crunch as to all the new creative ways to use the device.

I want to develop iCoaster, an application for the iphone that turns it into the perfect personalized dynamic coaster. The ipad will allow me to develop a prototype and expand my market into the 1 billion untapped market of coasters for beer mugs. Branded coasters supported by beer ads.

Because it’s getting harder and harder to read TechCrunch on my TRS-80.

Can’t believe I might actually have an iPad. As student, I will never be able to have one by myself. But this will be a great device for me (will save me lot on reading material). Please please please…choose me :)

I must have the iPad so I can wave it in front of all the Apple zombies on the train during my daily commute.

The i-what? Well, if you’re giving them away, I guess I’d take one.

I’d happily accept a new, shiny iPad

I’m not a big fan of Apple technology. Maybe this iPad thingamajig will change my mind?

I need one because I’m 12 and my old 8GB 1st gen iPhone just isn’t good enough for a tech lover without any cash like me.

This device simply must be mine.

You shouldn’t give me an iPad so that I will learn humility, contentment, and how to survive without the latest and greatest.

(if you still want to give me one, though, go right ahead. :) )

I deserve it because I’m beautiful