It’s Apple iPad day, and every early adopter worth their salt is pre-ordering one of the soon to be ubiquitous little devices and counting the days until they get their hands on it on April 3. You’ve been waiting on this thing since December 2008, after all.
We know you’ve already bought two for yourselves, the limit, because that’s how TechCrunch readers roll. We know this because we’ve told our advertisers that 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. And since those advertisers believe us, we have the means to buy an extra iPad and give it to you. Even though you’ll then have three of them. Because you, dear reader, are a high disposable income influencer.
Anyhow back to the iPad. This isn’ the 3G version, which comes later in April. This is the 16GB Wifi iPad, a $499 retail device, that we’ll give away to one lucky reader chosen at random who comments below or retweets this post. Just fan the TechCrunch Facebook page and then do one of two things: either retweet this post, and make sure to include the #crunch hashtag, or leave a comment below telling us why this device must be yours. The contest ends at noon California time on Saturday. Please only tweet the message once, anyone tweeting repeatedly will be disqualified. We’ll pick a winner tomorrow afternoon and contact you for more details. Anyone in the world is eligible, as long as you can receive delivered packages (our Nexus One winner lives in Romania). And we’ll throw in a TechCrunch tshirt.
Update: The winner and runner up have been chosen randomly and have been contacted. As soon as we confirm contact we’ll update with the winner.
Update 2: Congrats to Abdelrahman Mahmoud from Egypt for winning the iPad!
I am English. What, you need more?
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 hart ipad
It’s not the device for me either, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad device. I’m getting one for my mother. Now I need something with a stylus, good hand-writing recognition and something I can read PDFs on. Any of those three things *might* come for the iPad, but I’m not holding my breath so I’ll wait for something closer to my needs. But what Apple do really, really well, are devices that are user-friendly and fairly reliable. My mother has a little bit of rhemetism and doesn’t want some great clunky laptop. She doesn’t want a desktop with a keyboard and a mouse that she has to either sit at a desk with or juggle in her arm-chair. What she wants is a slate all in one piece with an intuitive interface, that isn’t going hassle her with questions about installing codecs or present a lot of unnecessary options. And that, as far as I can see, is the iPad to perfection. It’s exactly what my mother wants. Or I believe it is – it’s going to be a late birthday present as it wasn’t out in time for that and I’m pretty sure once she has it, she’ll find it incredibly superior to a computer in a dozen ways. I’m half-tempted to get an iPad myself as well, but I wont because although I’d enjoy using it, I’d unfortunately need a laptop with me as well which kind of defeats the point. But if TechCrunch want to send me their free iPad, I’ll find it a wonderful and appreciative home with my mother who just needs a light, easy to handle and quite frankly cool device to do email, web-browsing and look at her daughter’s pictures on. I don’t know if my mother is Apple’s desired marketing demographic, but I think she’s pretty cool and she does wear artsy turtleneck sweaters (albeit because she started when they were fashoinable the first time around). An iPad will suit her perfectly.
I too don’t actually want one but I think my friend should get one for creating this really clever and well-done ipad spoof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgqnOqfehJE&feature=player_embedded
Heh. The first thing I’m going to do when I get my hands on one of these things is say in a californian accent: “There’s no wrong way to hold one of these”
And then I’ll turn it over and stare mournfully at its back panel. :D
Hah… NO, i dont want a IPAD.
I prefer HP Slate or even a Joo Joo
Wakemeup when HP Slate or JooJoo has a give away.
Hopefully it has spell check.
You know, the post said “…leave a comment below telling us why this device must be yours” ;)
Yeah, that sounds like a valid reason to me.
In fact, I’ll take that reason, too.
I think this device needs to be mine because you need to give it to me.
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!
BTW, this reply has my best email included…. Don’t use the other one. :)
I’m on a boat! No actually I’m in Albuquerque. Enough said.
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! :)
Give it to me! …that way I can sell the one I pre-ordered, and pay off my credit card debt!
I deserve the free iPad because I’m not English. Now you’ve got both options.
I need one because I need a way to surf the web easily while watching Arrested Development.
I should get the iPad solely for the reason that I got in a verbal fight with an Apple fanboy yesterday: he was waiting outside of the Apple Store to preorder as soon as the store opened. He for some reason began explaining to me what an iPad was (he said it was a large iPhone kindle killer). I pointed to the 3ft tall iPhone displays in the store window and asked him if that was an iPad. The rest is history…
nice job, I would like to read my Rss on one of thoses
I’m poor. I have no job. I want one. :)
Currently too poor too…that, plus I’ve been using Apple and only Apple since 1984 (My father told me the Lisa & I were friends). Since I was born in 1981 and therefore have used Apple my whole life, I think that makes me worthy of an iPad.
One more reason, I’ll be using it to do good (study from and rent textbooks on) because I went back to college recently.
Lets try this. I can use a 3rd iPad.
Because, I work at Microsoft, so I’m not allowed (or atleast expected not) to buy one. And, in case Mr. Ballmer smashes the device, I promise I will send you the video, albeit from my Android Phone.
:)
Because I also work at Microsoft and want one just to roll by the E&D offices waving it around and asking when I can have the same thing running Windows.
Also this seems like the dedicated FAQ browser a consumate RPG player like myself needs.
I need an iPad to offer a little multimedia pizazz when teaching my students.So, really it is for my students.
Touch is the way of the future – whether this ticks all of the boxes is not important – it’s a step into the future – and I’d love to be along from the ride.
I must get it because I must have it!
i need to prove that electromagnetic reading is good for the soul….
I should get the iPad because I don’t make enough money to purchase an item like this. I am right now using an eee pc but would absolutely use this and love to have it. Thanks TechCrunch!
The Ipad is right for me because it fits my lifestyle. I love to read, browse the web on my couch and feel as though the multiple windowed approach doesn’t satisfy my geeky needs.
I own a netbook and can’t stand how long the sucker takes to load and I don’t want to be bothered with normal computer maintanence.
I think apple got this right. I want a large screen for the kickin back moments after work. If it wasn’t for the damn economy in the US and my wife telling me no I would be able to own one.
Apple fans love new products, things made well and with pride, sometimes too much pride, and with concern for the details. Nothing else provides the same level of integration, music, schedule, email, apps, and on and on, effortlessly. It’s my wife’s birthday and I would just love to give her this great gift of function and integration. She’s the best, just like Apple.
i-what? never heard of it…want me to try it? OK if you insist… ;-)
I need this to read me bedtime stories at night.
I need this to keep up with all the current Techcrunch News!
I need this to follow the Techcrunch fan page on FB
I need this to keep my IPhone company.
But most of all I need this cause I never win anything. It would be nice for a change :-)
Because I need a 2nd iPad!
New Mac Mini owner want to complete the Apple transformation.
I am from Romania, and I will never buy an iPad, but I like my iPod so if I’m lucky enough I will get an iPad from you :)
Because I jut got on the iPhone bandwagon and am still rockin the 2g. Used. From eBay.
Also, the g4 powerbook titanium is still in my possession.
It should be mine cause while I would never pay $500 for this thing, I certainly would pay $0.
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’m in for one. This would be perfect for when I’m too lazy to use a notebook. Using something like this on the plane would be a great way to get work done…or maybe not.
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.
Not even close.
I should get one more! Because I want it more!
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?!
Boooooo
+1 for the courier.
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!
i.P.a.d. –> i Paid apple dude
If it went to the funniest reply, this dude’d have to get it! I actually laughed out loud.
…Or the t-shirt post. Got a giggle.
Anyway, it must be mine as I’m an indie game designer/company owner who already makes games for iPhone, and really wants to make games for iPad, but who won’t be able to buy one for perhaps a year – when my first game will be released. *violins fade-out*
Me me me!
I would be happy with a free one ;)