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Following its release in April, Apple sold three million iPad units in the first 80 days.

The iPad has beat out the iPhone, which sold one million units during its first quarter, and  the DVD player, which had held the title as the most quickly adopted non-phone device. 

The DVD player sold 350,000 in its first year.  And Bernstein Research recently released its findings that the iPad, with the fastest adoption rate ever,  is selling an estimated 4.5 million units per quarter according to CNBC and PC World.

"This is much bigger than I thought it would be," said Pete Najarian, co-founder of TradeMonster.com. "It’s really a total media device and there’s not much a PC can do that you can’t do on an iPad.'

With more than $9 billion in sales anticipated for next year, Bernstein research indicates that the uber-media device is expected to leap past cell phones and gaming hardware to become the world's fourth biggest consumer electronics category.  

Smartphones, notebook PCs, and TVs are the top three categories at this time.

"The iPad did not seem destined to be a runaway product success straight out of the box," said Colin McGranahan, retail analyst at Bernstein Research. "By any account, the iPad is a runaway success of unprecedented proportion."

Apple recently made the popular device more accessible to the masses by offering the iPad through Target and Amazon.com.  

Starting October 17, Target will begin a new promotion that will provide Target credit card holders with a 5 percent discount on the purchase of any iPad.

For now, customers at Amazon.com don't have to pay any sales tax on the purchase price of the device.

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sustainability
By omnicronx on 10/7/2010 4:03:00 PM , Rating: 3
It will hit a wall, just like Netbooks did..

The fact remains its not a PC replacement, and until it is, its nothing but a portable toy. (heck you need a PC to start using the thing)




RE: sustainability
By Gio6518 on 10/7/2010 4:11:27 PM , Rating: 1
quote:
It will hit a wall, just like Netbooks did..


these numbers are based on launch sales....3 million in first 80 days, so in the next 10 days to follow to finish a quarter they sold 1.5 million? (maybe units sold to retail outlets, but probabally not to customers)


RE: sustainability
By morphologia on 10/7/2010 6:13:50 PM , Rating: 2
You never can tell when they're giving us inflated sales figures due to distributors and resellers, can ya? Only the people in the Cupertinian Inner Sanctum truly know how many have actually been purchased and activated by end users...


RE: sustainability
By Gio6518 on 10/7/2010 6:18:05 PM , Rating: 2
hence the word probabally....

most manufacturers can't tell how many are actually sold, only how many they moved from their factory or warehouse.


RE: sustainability
By vol7ron on 10/7/2010 4:12:08 PM , Rating: 2
Using it in Best Buy, it still seemed heavy. Not something I want to hold for any length of time. Stocks apps and other ePrint media did look more inviting, though.


RE: sustainability
By omnicronx on 10/7/2010 4:39:19 PM , Rating: 2
I have no problem with the device, in fact I own one.

My problem is the fact these are still 500+ dollar devices that do not replace PC's. This was the reason that netbooks hit the wall, and I don't see how tablets will escape it either.

Its simple, unless its fully useable out of box, its not going to replace PC's. As such, its going to be a hard sell to get the masses to continue buying PC's while also buying tablets at the same time.. The fact also remains that a lot of these devices flying off the shelves are not the lowest model, the lowest models were of limited supply. That means many people are actually paying 600+ for their devices. It seems more of a launch hype than anything, and hardly something that will carry over to the masses.

I also don't see this as something anyone would want to upgrade on a yearly basis like the iPhone. I'll be keeping mine until it breaks.


RE: sustainability
By Da W on 10/7/2010 4:46:12 PM , Rating: 2
I don't know many that upgrade their iphones yearly either. There are *some*.

Bottom line is what is the potential market? Sure PCs got boring, iphone is 4 years old, ipod is a decade old, so the iPad was the only NEW toy around this year. Early adoption always goes faster and faster as the global economy gets richer and richer. But the growth ends sooner too.

So what is the potential market? They say there is about 6 billion cell phones in circulation, 5 billion TVs, 3 billion DVDs, may be 1 billion PCs, a few hundred million game consoles. What % of the world population is gonna give a crap about the iPad and/or have enough money to waste at it? Don't forget once you buy an iPad, your credit card bill doesn't stop being billed then. It's only the begining...


RE: sustainability
By lothar98 on 10/7/2010 7:34:08 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
So what is the potential market? They say there is about 6 billion cell phones in circulation, 5 billion TVs, 3 billion DVDs, may be 1 billion PCs, a few hundred million game consoles. What % of the world population is gonna give a crap about the iPad and/or have enough money to waste at it? Don't forget once you buy an iPad, your credit card bill doesn't stop being billed then. It's only the begining...

I really don't see your point here because a lot of tech devices have overlapping functions, and as technology progresses to be smaller, lighter, faster, and more power efficient I believe this overlap will increase. How many devices can you do Instant Netflix Streaming with now? Just a few years ago that was for PCs only. How many people now have WiFi and RJ-45 jacks on their TVs? How much time do people spend web browsing on their phones now? The iPad is a new and different market that gives consumers a choice, and I have a very hard time seeing that as a bad thing.
quote:
Don't forget once you buy an iPad, your credit card bill doesn't stop being billed then. It's only the begining...

Here I would ask you what good is a cell phone without service, TV without content, a DVD player without discs, a PC without software, or a game console without games? Each of those devices is a gateway to more spending.


RE: sustainability
By corduroygt on 10/7/2010 5:05:40 PM , Rating: 3
I'd like a tablet to surf the web on my couch, but I need the full web, which includes flash. Thus I didn't get the ipad and I'm waiting for an android tablet.


RE: sustainability
By KoolAidMan1 on 10/9/2010 4:48:08 AM , Rating: 2
Browsing without Flash hasn't affected my experience. This is because there are only two things that really need Flash: games and restaurant websites (grr).

Otherwise, video from every major website works on the iPad browser. Hell, most were ready when it launched, and now I have a hard time finding a page that doesn't work on the iPad.

Before someone brings it up, webpage navigation is also a non-issue, mainly because using Flash for that fell out of vogue from 2006-2007. It is rare when I see a page that uses Flash (restaurant pages, some peoples personal video/image portfolios). Any site that uses Flash for navigation instead of CSS/AJAX/whatever really needs to get with it.


RE: sustainability
By charrytg on 10/7/2010 10:50:41 PM , Rating: 2
What do you mean netbooks do not replace PCs? They are PCs. Granted, the early netbooks are not entirely usable, but ion does the job. Really the only thing you cant do on ion is professional work or modern gaming. In every other way, it acts as any other laptop, or desktop. For under $500, I would consider that a deal.

Now, the ipad is an entirely different problem, being a different type of device, with inherent limitations of its own.


RE: sustainability
By kingius on 10/8/2010 8:11:24 AM , Rating: 2
I agree, I actually do this. I have an eee PC 1000H which I switched out the hard drive to an Mtron SSD and it's perfectly fine as a general purpose computer.


RE: sustainability
By bplewis24 on 10/7/2010 4:39:10 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
heck you need a PC to start using the thing


Is this true? If so, it's about the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. How ironic.

Brandon


RE: sustainability
By omnicronx on 10/7/2010 4:40:27 PM , Rating: 3
Yep, when you turn on the iPad you get the same 'Connect to iTunes' screen as you do with any other iOS based device.


RE: sustainability
By sprockkets on 10/7/2010 5:43:04 PM , Rating: 1
The mac losers combat that and say, just get it "activated" in store and you will never need the computer after that, since it can sync directly with the app store, music store, etc.

Still lame that they require this.


RE: sustainability
By cserwin on 10/7/10, Rating: 0
RE: sustainability
By Gio6518 on 10/7/2010 4:56:04 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
The iPad *is* the wall that Netbooks hit.


Netbooks hit the wall long before the iPad.


RE: sustainability
By omnicronx on 10/7/2010 5:00:07 PM , Rating: 2
Then why did sales rates start to drop before the iPad was even announced?

Try again..

You are seriously kidding yourself if you think the 200-400 dollar netbook market was replaced with a 500-800 dollar tablet market..


RE: sustainability
By FaceMaster on 10/7/10, Rating: 0
RE: sustainability
By Constable odo on 10/7/2010 10:21:06 PM , Rating: 2
What's even more ironic? That portable toy iPad is kicking all those other real PC's asses. It's got all those Windows PC companies' CEOs wetting their pants because they can't deal with some toy company taking away all their revenue. They'll all try to build "useful" tablets and fail miserably. Meanwhile, the iPad is going to be worth about $18 billion in revenue to Apple next year which is far more than netbooks were worth to any one company. Sweet.


RE: sustainability
By Pirks on 10/8/2010 12:15:16 AM , Rating: 1
posted like 2 hours ago and no -1 yet? wtf?! :)))))


RE: sustainability
By The Raven on 10/8/2010 11:00:06 AM , Rating: 2
I think you are missing the point. He's saying it is a fad. Cabbage Patch dolls kicked Barbie's a$5 in the 80's for a while there, but guess who has the greater appeal now.


Wrong Group?
By DtTall on 10/7/2010 4:33:12 PM , Rating: 2
What about game consoles? If DVD players were the one to beat, then what grouping does the iPad fall into? Seems like some other 'electronic devices' may have given it a run for its money.

For instance the Wii can surf the Internet, share content with friends, stream stuff, play games, store pictures, has removable media, plays discs, etc. I mean the thing even almost has the same icon interface as the Apps do on the iPad (or iPhone, or Touch). And they were sold out everywhere for a long time after launch.

Just a thought.




RE: Wrong Group?
By omnicronx on 10/7/2010 4:47:31 PM , Rating: 2
Yep, and it comes nowhere near that number. The wii in its prime sold around 500k units per quarter, and was nowhere near that number at launch due to limited supplies. I don't think it ever hit over a million units in a quarter.


RE: Wrong Group?
By StevoLincolnite on 10/7/2010 5:10:29 PM , Rating: 2
Quote from Wikipedia:

quote:
Well over three million preorders were taken in North America and Japan ; preorders at online stores were launched on November 3, and ended the same day as merchants had already sold their allotment. Initially Nintendo planned to deliver one million units combined at the North American and Japanese launches; when it saw the preorder numbers, it brought another factory online to ramp up production. Nintendo originally slated 300,000 units for the U.S. debut; 550,000 were shipped, and just over 500,000 of those sold through in the first week. Later in 2005, the manufacturer suggested retail price for the Nintendo DS was dropped to US$129.99.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS_launches

Not sure if the Pre-orders were all sold or not, but from reading that it seems to have out-done the iPad.
So all up we can assume 3.5 million Nintendo DS's were sold in just a week if you count the Pre-Orders.

Oh and that ain't world wide either.


RE: Wrong Group?
By omnicronx on 10/7/2010 5:21:33 PM , Rating: 2
What exactly are you basing your numbers on? 3.5 Million in the first week? They didnt sell 3.5 Million the entire quarter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS_sales
(worldwide sales)

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2005/050126e.pdf#... (nintendos financials for that quarter)

Both say the same thing, 2.84M sales on the quarter which certainly does include presales. These are worldwide numbers, not just North America. More than I thought, but still well under what the iPad hit.

This is about first quarter launch sales.. Not how much they sold in their first day, week, month.. but quarter.


RE: Wrong Group?
By Hyperion1400 on 10/7/2010 5:51:57 PM , Rating: 2
No, that's 2.84 million in one month, not one quarter. The DS was released in late Nov. and the sales figure of 2.84 was posted for Dec. 31.


RE: Wrong Group?
By Solandri on 10/7/2010 5:56:12 PM , Rating: 4
The Playstation 2 hit 100 million sales in 5 years 9 months, or 17.4 million a year, or an average 4.3 million a quarter sustained for 5.75 years. You have to figure at some point on those 5.75 years, their quarterly sales were over 4.5 mil a quarter.

Like I've been saying since before the iPad was released, the publishing industry really really wants the iPad to succeed. They have nearly all their DRMed content eggs riding in the iPad's basket. They see it as their messiah which will lead them from the 20th century's paper publishing to the promised land of the 21st century's electronic publishing, whilst allowing them to retain control unlike what happened with the RIAA and MP3s. Anything that happens to the iPad is bound to be spun by them in the most positive manner possible in order to reassure people that it's a safe buy and a good investment.

That's not to say it's a bad device - before it's release I ate a lot of downratings here for saying a small lightweight tablet with a good UI and stellar battery life would be a great tool. I'm just saying that the media coverage of it from the publishing industry will have an overwhelmingly positive bias to it. Such as making up easily disproven statements like "fastest adoption rate ever."


RE: Wrong Group?
By kingius on 10/8/2010 8:14:31 AM , Rating: 2
That's a very interesting and insightful comment.


RE: Wrong Group?
By StevoLincolnite on 10/7/2010 6:44:06 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
What exactly are you basing your numbers on? 3.5 Million in the first week? They didnt sell 3.5 Million the entire quarter.


Read my post, all the information you asked for is right there.


RE: Wrong Group?
By SkeptiCoder on 10/7/10, Rating: 0
RE: Wrong Group?
By omnicronx on 10/7/2010 5:25:45 PM , Rating: 2
Should I have looked it up, surely.. Was I wrong, nope..

What VGchartz says is irrelevent. Nintendo stated 2.84 Million in sales in the first quarter on their financial reports.

Seriously, you come in here spouting ignorance and your source something that is nothing but an estimate based on NDP numbers and not true sales. (which shows me that you don't even know what the numbers are posting are based off of.)

Nintendo sold 2.84 DS's in the quarter.. 2.84M < 4.5M..
Consoles still lose..


RE: Wrong Group?
By omnicronx on 10/7/2010 5:35:24 PM , Rating: 2
Not to rub salt in the wound either.. but next time before you start calling someone out, you should perhaps READ THE CONTENT OF THE LINKS YOU ARE POSTING.

It says right there in the link your provided for VG.. 2004 -- DS -- 2.86M.


RE: Wrong Group?
By omnicronx on 10/7/2010 6:30:25 PM , Rating: 2
God damnit.. You were talking about the wii... Which still falls short though at 3.19M for first quarter sales.

Thats the last time I try to respond to a bunch of posts at once =P


RE: Wrong Group?
By fic2 on 10/7/2010 6:53:10 PM , Rating: 2
I thought the Furby was the biggest selling non-phone electronic device!


RE: Wrong Group?
By kingius on 10/8/2010 8:15:56 AM , Rating: 2
I thought it was the battery.


RE: Wrong Group?
By JKflipflop98 on 10/13/2010 9:23:57 AM , Rating: 2
I'll take lightbulbs for 500, Alex.


RE: Wrong Group?
By KoolAidMan1 on 10/9/2010 4:52:09 AM , Rating: 2
"What about game consoles?"

In one year the iPad will make more gross revenue than the XBox 360 did in five, ditto the PS3. If we're talking net revenue then it is even more significant given that the iPad has been profitable from day one while the XBox was sold as a loss leader, and it resulted in billions in writedowns for Microsoft because the hardware was defective, warranties were extended, a large percentage was replaced, etc etc.


Really?
By pequin06 on 10/7/2010 4:30:10 PM , Rating: 5
quote:
It’s really a total media device and there’s not much a PC can do that you can’t do on an iPad.


I really don't like statements like that.

It might be a Mac replacement though since there isn't much to do on those....




RE: Really?
By omnicronx on 10/7/2010 4:45:47 PM , Rating: 1
I don't like statements like that either..

Here's something I can't do.. Use the TV out for anything ;)

Not only are you limited to connection by VGA @ its native resolution, but the developer has to specifically code their app to use the external display. (which essentially nobody has done).. Basically all that supports it right now is the video player.. (and the visualizations of the audio player.. oooo... ahhhhh)


RE: Really?
By EnzoFX on 10/7/2010 7:21:00 PM , Rating: 2
Who uses video out?

Or better phrased, how many people do you think use the video out in their laptops? Very few. Some people just forget they are not the majority. The iPad is clearly not catered to those few people.


RE: Really?
By Gio6518 on 10/7/2010 5:00:24 PM , Rating: 3
quote:
It’s really a total media device and there’s not much a PC can do that you can’t do on an iPad.


Should say, theres not much a phone can do that you can't do on an iPad.


RE: Really?
By corduroygt on 10/7/2010 5:04:57 PM , Rating: 2
Like putting it in your pocket for example?


RE: Really?
By Helbore on 10/9/2010 9:52:35 AM , Rating: 2
No, it should say, theres not much an iPad can do that you can't do on a smartphone. ;)


RE: Really?
By Phoque on 10/7/2010 5:12:37 PM , Rating: 1
It can do almost anything a PC can do, but there are only a handful of these things the iPad will handle in a convenient manner, like reading ezines, wiping the screen to scroll through pictures, wiping it again to erase the finger marks you just left, etc,.

For the other stuff like word processing and gaming, it's really sub-par to a PC or gaming console. But hey, it's not because it's a shitty experience you can say the iPad can't do it.


RE: Really?
By mmntech on 10/7/2010 7:16:30 PM , Rating: 2
The iPad is more of a netbook replacement than an PC/Mac replacement. It can do quite a bit though. I use mine for web browsing, typing out documents, playing games, and watching movies. This is what 90% of home PC users do, so the statement is partially true. I probably use my iPad more than I use either my desktop and laptop now.


RE: Really?
By EnzoFX on 10/7/2010 7:22:54 PM , Rating: 2
This. Some people on here can't seem to understand that they don't represent the vast, vast majority that is the average consumer.


Yet another well marketed Device from Apple
By Denigrate on 10/7/2010 4:57:59 PM , Rating: 4
This thing is perfectly targeted to yuppies, or whatever they are called these days. Disposable income combined with the need to have the next new electronic toy, and a need for status symbols equals a huge rush on what amounts to a large iPhone.

Funny thing is that Nokia came out with this type of device years ago. Apple just stole the concept, inserted a "friendly" interface, and called it their newest invention.

I loved my Nokia 770, and wish that Nokia had fulfilled the promise of that great device.




RE: Yet another well marketed Device from Apple
By Tony Swash on 10/7/10, Rating: 0
By kingius on 10/8/2010 8:18:54 AM , Rating: 2
I'm not sure if you are proving your opponent's point. User interfaces are often called Skins, but to say a skin is something of no substance is perhaps taking it too far.


RE: Yet another well marketed Device from Apple
By Denigrate on 10/8/2010 2:49:59 PM , Rating: 2
What don't you understand about Marketing? This is the backbone of all Apple products. None of them are new ideas. It's just repackaged electronics/software someone else came up with. Apple takes away functionality so that they can lock the device down to a few core tasks. The Apple device typically does these limited tasks pretty well. Apple then markets it as the next wonderful thing, and hordes of people who previously spent too much money on an Apple product buy yet another because they think it's a status symbol.


By KoolAidMan1 on 10/9/2010 4:56:11 AM , Rating: 2
They also excel at execution. Nokia's UIs were never good, while Microsoft spends most of its time (after burning through billions in R&D) ripping off Apple and Google.

Fact of the matter is that the people buying Apple devices aren't the old Mac faithful, they are people who are new to their devices. They have been burned by substandard products designed by engineers with no sense of intuitive user interface.

Don't blame Apple for their success, blame everyone else for screwing it up for so long and letting Apple be the first ones to do it right.


I don't get it...
By MrWho on 10/7/2010 6:24:08 PM , Rating: 2
... if it is that popular, how come I still didn't see anyone holding it so far? In fact I'm still yet to see a real iPad - the only ones I saw were through pictures on the internet and in magazines.




RE: I don't get it...
By Gio6518 on 10/7/2010 6:28:06 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
... if it is that popular, how come I still didn't see anyone holding it so far? In fact I'm still yet to see a real iPad - the only ones I saw were through pictures on the internet and in magazines.


or on any given day, since the launch date, and be able to pick up a dozen or so...


RE: I don't get it...
By Tony Swash on 10/7/10, Rating: 0
RE: I don't get it...
By kmmatney on 10/7/2010 11:04:55 PM , Rating: 2
I've seen plenty of them. I travel quite a lot, and often get free upgrades to first class on United. One time, out of 8 first class seats, 2 people had them. I also sat next to someone on a flight to China with one, and I used it for about 2 hours. It was pretty cool - I'm sold on the idea, but I really would like a camera, and flash support. I can live without flash on my phone, but it could be useful on the iPad.


RE: I don't get it...
By Helbore on 10/9/2010 10:15:06 AM , Rating: 2
I do actually wonder how many have been sold and then returned (or just abandoned to collect dust by their owners)

I work as an IT Consultant and I've had to set up a few iPads for people (usually just setting up the wifi and Exchange email, cos that's too complicated for many people!) I have to admit that first impressions with it were definitely "wow, this is really nice, I think I want one!" It's beautiful and very smooth. It has that typical Apple style of making everything feel like one big continuous application.

However once the inital "cool factor" wears off, I found it much like every other Apple product I've handled; ie. too restricted and too controlling. I quickly began to find it lacking in functionality that I needed and whilst I was sad to make the decision (because I really liked the look of it) I knew it was not worth the money. At £200, perhaps. At £500+, no way. It's also too heavy to comfortably hold in one hand for any length of time and that really ruins its usefullness.

However, as people on here often like to point out, people like me are not the mass market. I'm an IT Consultant and don't represent the masses of tech illiterates who like "pretty and simple." But the people who DO represent the masses are my clients who I set the devices up for. These are the people who are buying iPads - and their reaction turned out to be a slightly delayed version of mine.

They were all the picture of excitement to show off their new iPads, but after I'd set up the basics for them, we came to the further questions. Suddenly, we were finding all these extra things that these new owners would like to do with the iPad - and each question was answered the same; sorry, it can't do that.

It didn't take long to detect a pattern and you could see their faces slowly losing their earlier sparkle, as they realised their shiny new purchase actually couldn't do very much.

Oh well, they are content to use it now they've got it and I'm sure Apple are quite happy with that. They've managed to make sales, after all. But these same people are not recommending the iPad to their colleagues. For every person I've seen buy an iPad, I've heard a dozen people around them say they won't buy one based on the experience they've seen from those who have.

That's not good. I've not seen hundreds of iPads. I've seen about ten, all owned by different types of people. None are now more than "somewhat satisfied," and that's mostly because they've got it now and are determined to make it some sort of use to them. But none of them have any intention of buying an upgrade to it when it finally breaks, let alone as soon as the second generation comes out.

I doubt very much the iPad will continue its stellar sales figures. It will be bought, for sure. But not in ever increasing numbers. It's a flash in the pan and will decline the moment people can get hold of a device that doesn't have me continually saying "no, it can't do that."

People might be content with a simplistic, locked-down mobile phone, but foe a PC replacement device - well, the Mac's lack of success against Wintel PCs is all the proof we need of how it works in a larger, high-productivity market. ie. it will sell, but it won't dominate anything.


iPad self help guide
By Tony Swash on 10/7/10, Rating: 0
RE: iPad self help guide
By Gio6518 on 10/7/2010 6:20:27 PM , Rating: 2
so like you in reverse....


RE: iPad self help guide
By Gio6518 on 10/7/2010 6:23:14 PM , Rating: 2
let me rephrase that...

its like what you do on articles that are pro anything other than Apple


RE: iPad self help guide
By charrytg on 10/7/2010 10:54:38 PM , Rating: 1
Do you copy and paste these things from somewhere, or do you really waste hours a day attempting to troll dailytech?
You are attempting to troll, right? I would hope that not everyone here is being serious when they write these things.


RE: iPad self help guide
By Helbore on 10/9/2010 9:57:44 AM , Rating: 2
Do you get paid my Apple to post this stuff or do you just have waaaaaay too much time on your hands?


So did they just forget about the DS or what?
By Hyperion1400 on 10/7/2010 4:59:16 PM , Rating: 2
In the course of one month the DS sold almost 3 million (2.8)units. In it's first quarter it shipped almost 5 and a half.

That's a h*ll of a lot of DSes to forget about?

For that matter what about the Wii?

In it's first year it sold 20 million units. Hell, in one MONTH it sold 3 million units! In one quarter it sold over 5 million. That is a FAR faster adoption rate than the Ipad.




RE: So did they just forget about the DS or what?
By omnicronx on 10/7/2010 5:12:05 PM , Rating: 2
They didnt forget anything, you are just flat out wrong.

Quarter!=Month

Your numbers are correct, but both are quarterly sales, not monthly.

That would put both over a million units behind the iPad for its first quarter.

What makes this launch even more amazing, is that it took place during what is probably the worst quarter of the year for consumer electronic sales. (unlike the Wii and DS which were released over the Christmas Holidays)


By Hyperion1400 on 10/7/2010 5:54:50 PM , Rating: 2
Nintendo DS was released in late November to early December.

November-December equals one month. USE YOUR GOD DAMNED BRAIN!


I don't get this
By Daverino on 10/8/2010 10:08:42 AM , Rating: 2
I live in Manhattan and you'll find me hitting up one or two Starbucks a day. When the IPhone came out it was immediately obvious that everyone and their sister was going out and getting these things. New Yorkers love to show off their tech and you'd find people fiddling with their IPhones every chance they get. The IPad, however, I think I've seen *maybe* a half dozen in the wild since it launched. This compared to netbooks and laptops where half the people in a coffee shop here will have one open.

If Apple has really sold this many IPads, I'd love to know where the hell they are. They aren't being used publicly in NYC, that much I know. And I find it hard to believe that Manhattanites are only using them in the comfort of their homes. The reason this is relevant is because people here also have the expendable cash to get these things. If people aren't buying them in NYC, I would think it even less likely they're selling well in Tulsa or Des Moines.

So where are these millions of IPads?




RE: I don't get this
By mbarry1961 on 10/8/2010 12:57:39 PM , Rating: 2
As a matter of fact my father has a primary residence in Tulsa and bought an iPad to read the news, email, surf, etc. He has another condo on the lake in Arkansas and used to subscribe to multiple news rags that he had to have delivered to both locations. Now he just throws the pad into the briefcase and gets the news he likes at any location, checks his mail, monitors his stocks, and checks the weather radar for tornados. What can I say, it's an Okie thing...


Fastest selling...
By masamasa on 10/8/2010 12:07:16 PM , Rating: 2
...most useless device out there.

This is one of the most impractical, gimmicky devices a person can buy. Aside from reading a book on-line or surfing the web, it has very limited functionality in comparison to a PC.




RE: Fastest selling...
By mbarry1961 on 10/8/2010 1:07:44 PM , Rating: 2
It fills a niche
By sailorjeff on 10/7/2010 5:37:24 PM , Rating: 2
I am not pro-apple and not a apple product basher either. I own a ipad because it fulfills a niche that neither my cellphone, windows laptop, or desktop provide. The ipad is light, portable, has great battery life, and lets me access the internet in ways that is are practical with my other computing devices. I spend alot of time on my sailboat. I do not have wireless when on the water but I usually do have a phone signal. I use the ipad to check mail, weather and radar maps, internet etc. It excels at these tasks. I did not buy it to type on, do spreadsheets on etc. It fills a niche that other devices do not. All the bashers out there need to get a life. If it does not fulfill your needs that is fine, but for the many millions of us who it does fufill a desired function, there is no other device that comes close. I you don't like it, don't buy it. If you have one and don't like it, you can always sell it. I will keep using mine for what I bought it for and my other computers for what I bought them for.




RE: It fills a niche
By bety on 10/7/10, Rating: 0
RE: It fills a niche
By KoolAidMan1 on 10/9/2010 4:59:52 AM , Rating: 1
Fanboys have been saying the same thing for years and years now. You would think that they would finally get why the rest of the consumer electronics industry pays close fucking attention whenever Apple does something. Instead they gripe about why so much press is about them, and then wonder why some random product that they like but nobody else did flopped.

Hearing the confusion from owners of the Toshiba Libretto W100 is my favorite new thing. Such a shitty product, yet deluded geeks buy it and convince themselves that "this is the future, if only the unwashed masses could see!"


So Hot
By zippyzoo on 10/7/2010 3:58:38 PM , Rating: 2
It's so hot you could loose your thumb, thumbing through the apps.

Really, can't believe someone lost a thumb for this thing.




so much bull*@**
By zorxd on 10/7/2010 5:15:15 PM , Rating: 2
What does it mean to be the "fastest selling device"? Which one is the fastest? One which sell 3 millions in 80 days or on which sell 75 millions in 2.5 years (like the Wii)? I am also sure that I could find a device which sold 200 000 in one day. Is it faster or slower than the iPad? This means nothing.
Also, the comparison with the DVD player is very poor. The DVD player is a category of devices. Early adopters could buy one in the first year but most companies didn't even produce one. Tablet devices have been available for years. The iPad is just a new tablet with a new OS. Tablets, as a whole, have one of the slowest adoption rate since almost nobody bought them before 2010.




By BubbaJoe TBoneMalone on 10/7/2010 7:48:00 PM , Rating: 2
An army of critics to include Bill Gates thought the iPhone didn't have a chance and the iPad would be lemon. Wonder how well Apple TV will do.




666
By Zingam on 10/8/2010 5:13:10 AM , Rating: 2
$666 is the cost of iPad locally for the version with lowest specs.

There is no way I'm buying the shit!




By inperfectdarkness on 10/8/2010 7:48:07 AM , Rating: 2
the ipad is selling better than any generation of gameboy/ds?

wow there's a lot of stupid in the world.




It will Fail
By Zetribe on 10/8/2010 10:08:16 AM , Rating: 2
Where are the USB Drives, Blue Ray Drives, CD Rom Drives, Floppy Drives, Winchester Disks, Punched Card readers and nice warm valves?. All you can do with this handy sized piece of rubbish is consume and create stuff, hardly the stuff for geeks to obsess over.




PS2?
By Emma on 10/8/2010 11:20:58 AM , Rating: 2
I thought the PS2 would be the fastest selling electronics device in history, selling 980,000 in its first day on March 5 2001, and 1.4 million by the end of the month, constrained by manufacturing output. 10 million were shipped worldwide a year after launch.




iFlop?
By chrish89 on 10/7/10, Rating: 0
"If they're going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else." -- Microsoft Business Group President Jeff Raikes











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