Leo Laporte and other media after the Apple iPad launch

Leo Laporte webcast from Yerba Buena after the Apple iPad launch with guests Ryan Block of gdgt and Chicago Sun-Times tech columnist Andy Ihnatko. San Francisco, USA. 27/01/2010.

Leo Laporte webcast from Yerba Buena after the Apple iPad launch with guests Ryan Block of gdgt and Chicago Sun-Times tech columnist Andy Ihnatko. A producer wrote on a white board guests were available via Skype when there stopped webcasting on location.

Laporte's coverage during the launch event on Ustream drew a peak of 112,000 viewers much larger than the audience of Fox Business Channel (averaging less than 30,000 viewers in 2009) which was also there along with CNBC and CNN and many other media (there were far more than the three tv trucks which had already arrived the night before).

Ryan Block also have gave interviews to G4's Attack of the Show and San Francisco station KRON. iJustine (Justine Ezarik) interviewed Newsweek technology writer Dan Lyons who also blogs at Fake Steve Jobs.

Accredited media were able to use 60 iPads which were in the Forum at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (which was closed because of the Apple event). The door could be seen

The iPad in some ways was a larger version of the iPod Touch which was featured on a huge ad just a couple blocks from Yerba Buena.