New iPads Waiting in Seal Beach…why?

Well the headlines said that Apple has again scored big with the new iPad and CEO Tim Cook said over 3 million were sold just on Friday!  Similarly AT&T said that it was a single day record for IPad sales.

All that may be true and I believe it when they say ultimately there will be 150 million sold and several more Zillion dollars will be added to Apple’s overall company value.  However, when I went into the new Seal Beach store, “Mac-fusion”, at 304 Main Street (next to the Abbey) on Saturday they still had new iPads to sell and were expecting more to be delivered Saturday and Monday.

It seemed to me that more of the people were getting their existing Macs upgraded and/or serviced than were walking out with the new iPads.

I will admit that the one I saw being displayed had striking graphic performance.  Apple calls it the Retina display: like the one on the iPhone 4S, it’s a very, very sharp screen. It’s four times as sharp as the iPad 2 — in fact, it’s the sharpest ever on a mobile device. This screen has 3.1 million pixels, which is 1 million pixels more than on a high-definition TV set.

In principle, all those pixels and the color saturation means now photos, videos, maps and text should look unbelievably good — and the apps that have been rewritten for the new screen do. Apple’s own apps, like Photos, Maps and iBooks, are very sharp and clear.  So are Apple’s inexpensive, newly enhanced iPad apps — iMovie, GarageBand, the Numbers spreadsheet and the Pages word processor. Its hard to believe the difference it makes.

What else is new:

-A tiny microphone now appears on the on-screen keyboard. Tapping it lets you speak to type, exactly as on the iPhone 4S. The recognition is fast and accurate

–       A 5-megapixel back camera that takes far better photos than the iPad 2 did. You‘ll get1080p hi-def videos now, and a stabilization feature lends a hand when yours is shaky or moving.

In this reporter’s opinion nothing else compares with it.  Not really surprising….its an Apple product, after all.

In addition to the superior graphics it has a quad-core processor and those things alone I’m sure will trigger many millions of sales over the next few weeks.

Why are the new iPads available in Seal Beach?  Maybe some of the Apple fans haven’t found out about the neww Seal Beach store yet? (12 years experience but less than 30 days in Old Town)  Undoubtedly they will when they start calling and emailing to find out who has new iPads to sell and the only spot is in our town!

Let’s hope when they come to Seal they take the walk to the Pier and find out there’s more to “Mayberry by the Sea” than just Apple sales and service.

Although I will admit it’s a pretty snazzy store.