I have an iMac and love it. I have a Win7 notebook and think its great. I’d love a new smart phone and would consider an iPhone. However, I am stumped by how Apple continues to rise above the fray.

Case & Point: Apple releases the iPad to rabid millions with tones of hoopla. Reviews are everywhere both for and against. There are critiques and praises about what its missing, what it great and how it compares to tablets past (Newton to Compaq’s TC1000 (had one and loved it!)) and present (Amazon Kindle). Official reports cite over 300,000 in sales the first day.

Then day 2 comes. The party for some is over. But for many others the romance continues.

And what happens on Day 2 is the reason for this rant. Apple releases a new O/S! I always feel you should hang out for version 2 and that being an early adopter has it perils, but for a vendor to release such a significant update right after the product is launched just spark too much hubris in my opinion! Seriously how happy would you been to have just dropped north of $500 and told, “thanks and now we have improved it for the next guy.”

If a lesser vendor (read Microsoft) released Windows 7 then said the next day that Windows 8 with 3-D, holographic, 10-core 128-bit O/S was available next month there would be hell to pay! But to all those that worship the book of Jobs it like, “This is great! I got the new toy and its going to be upgraded in a couple months and be much better. The next guy is really lucky, but I got mine first!”

Ah well, I know you’ll be able to upgrade iPad v1 OS3 to OS4, but will the iPad v 1.5 with O/S4 native be even cooler for even less? Looking at Apples history for product innovation and the simple answer is “quite likely”.