So, you think the iPad sucks?

The most anticipated product launch of the year, the iPad, has been and gone with some success, but it’s not without its glitches – and either was the launch of the iPhone.

Over the weekend, despite rumours the launch date had been moved to later in the month, Apple sold more than 300,000 iPads. That figure includes the pre-ordered tablets, too.

iPad users have already downloaded more than one million applications at Apple’s App Store and over 250,000 electronic books from the iBookstore, according to the company.

But there has been complaints about the device already. Anything that Apple does causes mass hype and hysteria, however, the explosion of information and publicity surrounding the iPad launch has left consumers feeling that their expectations have not completely met. Big surprise.

Apparently, some users have been having major issues connecting to the internet via wi-fi. Apple has a support page set up for those having issues but many have complained on the TechCrunch blog that they are going to return their iPads.

While users are praising the sleek design of the device, many are still complaining about the lack of camera and Flash capabilities.

There’s even people bashing the device to death, somehow proving that the screen isn’t all it’s cracked up to be (being taken to with a baseball bat).

All this might seem like what has been a long run of bad publicity for the iPad, since it was first announced in January. But demand is still high and the tech giant has doubled its manufacturing output for 2010.

Furthermore, the iPhone didn’t come without it’s complaints and now look at its phenomenal popularity.

The iPhone also failed to meet the requirements of consumers back in 2007. Just weeks after the much raved about launch, users began complaining about the lack of memory expansion in their brand new gadget.

Then there were complaints that the speaker volume was low and about the slow speed of download on AT&T network (in the US).

Another complaint was about the short battery life and then difficulties in basic user friendly features such as text messaging and  the fact that the iPhone has a browser which doesn’t save passwords.

The claims from Apple – that it would change consumers lives, the way they do things and how they do things in the everyday – seemed to have evaporated and failed to translate into reality.

The endeavor of effective technology oriented gadgets has mostly been to increase revenues or maximize profits, with the betterment of human life and peace of mind are merely secondary motives, according to a paper from edu.udym.com.

More and more complaints are going to strike the turbulent horizons as far as the iPad is concerned. But whether it does everything people think it should do or not, the iPad is still a remarkably product. And any product launch should be treated as a case of trial and error.

The thing to keep in mind is that Apple listens to its customers. All the things consumers are complaining about now, may well be rectified in version two.

But for better or worse people will love the iPad. It’s Apple after all (and really, need I say more?)They’ll become addicted just as easily as they did to the iPod back in the day – and now it is seemingly integrated into our everyday lives without a second thought, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t own one. Give the iPad another five years and your kids will probably been asking you what a laptop is.