By now you must have heard of Apple, formerly Apple Computer, makers of the Mac, MacBook, iPhone, iPod and now the iPad. Apple has hit home runs with their elegantly designed, highly functional gadgetry, and the iPad is no exception. You may even have heard rumors about iPad testers being chosen to evaluate the user experience, and then getting to keep their iPads. What a way to get a free iPad!
No, I didn't say a fat-free iPad or a sugar-free iPad; I said a free iPad, period. Of course you'd love to be an iPad tester, but who could possibly be that privileged? It sounds like a sweet deal; I wouldn't imagine that a tester's responsibilities would be too time-consuming. But who are these elusive Apple iPad testers?
I don't know, and I'm not sure I ever will. Apple simply doesn't have to give iPads away, yet. A technical issue like the iPhone antenna failure may force them to spend more on iPad user testing. However, when people are willing to spend $499 just to take a baseball bat to the iPad on opening day, it would seem that Apple just doesn't need to give iPads away.
So what to do when you see a site advertise free iPads? Well, you could click on it and see what happens, but that might not be a great idea if you aren't surfing on a Mac. These kinds of offers sound too good to be true, so they may be lures for spyware or Trojans.
Again, if you're on a Windows system it makes better sense to check the URL first with a security website to see if it harbors malware. If the site comes up clean, why not navigate through it and even apply to become one of the few Apple iPad testers? It beats shelling out five hundred or a thousand dollars, doesn't it? What's the worst that could happen; you share your personal info with a web site and never hear from them again? In these times, that's a pretty good gamble for lots of people.
The possible upside, of course, is getting your eager mitts on a free iPad. Is it so far from plausible that Apple would want to spend - let's see, maybe twenty thousand dollars on a user testing program? That actually seems reasonable. Just don't end up with a C drive full of malware trying to find out.
Step right up and get your Free Ipads Quantities are limited, so act now and get a Free Ipad of your own!
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