“Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “We appreciate their patience, and are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone.”
iPad allows users to connect with their apps, content and the Internet in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before. Users can browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch HD videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more, all using iPad’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ user interface. iPad is 0.5 inches thin and weighs just 1.5 pounds—thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook—and delivers up to 10 hours of battery life.
Developers have created over 5,000 exciting new apps for iPad that take advantage of its Multi-Touch user interface, large screen and high-quality graphics. iPad will run almost all of the more than 200,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone or iPod touch.
Source: Apple Inc.
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To paraphrase cartoon Steve Jobs: iPad, bitch!
MW: “two.” Quite appropriate.
Reading this on my 16GB 3G at work right now. Thanks to all the veterans who’s sacrifice allows us such freedoms as being able to work and enjoying our iPads.
Wow!
But, will numbers like this silence the naysayers?
Glad I got mine on Day One!
Have a great day off! Thank you for All you do, MDN!
MDN enjoy your memorial day.
And yet the PC fanbois continue to whine about how an iPad is useless compared to a netbook. Obviously 2+ million and counting don’t agree…
As a vet, let me say thanks to all who serve or have served. If you are looking in from iraq or Afghanistan: stay safe, come home alive and accept my sincere appreciation for your service.
To all of our severice men/women, thank you! For those that have fallen for me and my children, I will be there to hug you in the next world.
To all those who have served our country, our thanks for the service, and for all those who have sacrificed and sacrificed all, our perpetual respect and grateful thanks.
“Freedom isn’t free.”
– Anonymous
“Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.”
– Wallace Bruce
“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
– John F. Kennedy
To all U.S. soldiers around the world, we owe you a debt of gratitude. We greatly appreciate and support your service and sacrifice.
Come home safely.
This VNE vet agrees with the several off-topic comments above … “thanks to those who served“.
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On Topic: I’d say we’re looking good for ten million plus by the anniversary, quite possibly by New Years. Inconsequential. A mere Rounding Error. That’s it. Move along, loyal Windows owners, nothing to see here. I said “Move Along!“.
someone should create a memorial app, which would show a pic and bio of all vets who died in wars. if i could i would
I too, would like to echo the sentiments of those above me.
To all of those who serve, or have served, thank you.
They’ll never catch the BigMac in terms of sales. Sorry Apple, try again.
Thanks to the brave American soldiers who rescued my family in Austria in 1945. And thanks to the wise US politicians who brought civil rights, democracy, peace, women rights to Japan, the country of my wife. You Americans should be proud for your (great-)grandfathers.
MDNWord: strength
…and yes I was one of these who just wanted to have a look at the ne gadget, and came out of the Apple store with an iPad…
@HMCIV,
Perhaps not a billion iPads sold, but soon Apple may boast Billions and Billions of apps served (downloaded).
And they will beat their swords into plowshears and neither will they learn war anymore.
Feel sorry for the vets who made the sacrifice, but a military career is not something I would be proud of.
I never thought about the iPad as a “disruptive technology” until it. Was mentioned to me a few hours ago… It really is a massive piece of disruptive technology and I’m actually not surprised there are so many negative comments from the windoze sheep; their comfort blanket has been set on fire by Apple.
Typed from my iPad, day 3 of owning one and I haven’t touched my MacBook Pro since i bought it. Bloodbath.
But, MDN, we’re your friends!!!!!
I suspect they’ve probably actually sold over three million. They had sold a million during the first month and were reportedly selling an additional two hundred thousand per week thereafter. None of that even includes the international rollout. So … I call the sales figures nice, but very likely way under the actual numbers.
To WhatHappened?- As a vet who served my country because of my love of freedom and my belief that it was and is a God given right, your comments are a total disappointment on this Memorial Day. Had many before us not been willing to lay it all on the line, you’d be typing in some other language, living under a much greater loss of personal freedom, abiding atrocities that should never had occurred. Until the time is right to beat our swords into plowshares, God isn’t expecting us to surrender the human rights He gave us. Nevertheless, we who have served in the military did so to enable you to post insensitive and disillusioned comments such as you made.
@HCMIV,
LOL!
@acid,
Touche.
@WhatHappened. You were saved because of those who put on the uniform. God help you in your ignorance and comfort.
Our thanks to all the men and women who serve (or who have served) in the military.
Peace.
Speaking as someone who has never served in the military, thank you on behalf of my kids and I to all those who have sacrificed over the years.
Memorial Day Service at Seal Beach Pier, Seal Beach CA. 1 p.m.
See you there. (I’m easy to spot, I’ll be the newspaper photographer with the camera)
This announcement (only a week before the keynote) can only mean one thing. Apple dosen’t want a little thing like mind-blowingly positive sales numbers to get in the way of whatever Jobs is unvieling.
Bet it will be good.
@WhatHappened,
Read the story of Cincinnatus from the Roman Empire (the namesake of my hometown).
Sometimes you need the sword and sometimes you need the plowshare.
Hey the fascists wonand Herbert bush looked after Hitlers finance. Still, heads in the sand boys: the illusion of freedom and democracy is all you’ll get. Let’s not forget old uncle sam used nukes on civilians to show the commies who’s boss. Nice bunch in the white house. Lusitania, pearl harbour, 911. See a pattern yet? Yawn. More snickers. More coke. Remember what?
I don’t usually like to call people names in my postings, sir or madam, but in your case I shall make a happy exception.
You are scum. You are the vilest of filth . . . and one whose freedom is completely and utterly undeserved. May you rot in some kind of totalitarian hell, and may your children and grandchildren live in chains and poverty for the rest of their natural lives.
Those who sacrificed THEIR lives, happiness, and prosperity for YOUR miserable sake deserve so much more than the ordure you and your kind represent.
ESAD, WhatHappened. ESAD.
Gerald, who fell crossing the Rhine River in Germany in World War II, THANK YOU…and to ALL who have made the ultimate sacrifice, your courage and bravery will never be forgotten.
And those in Iraq and Afghanistan; please finish and come home soon!
First, let’s remember all who served and died so that we can talk about something in the trivial world of geekdom.
Bought the last iPad at the Apple store in Easton Mall, Columbus on Saturday. Bought it for an old friend 80+ so that she can hopefully read again.
With each million sold, Flash oozes into oblivion.
But not quickly enough?
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@WhatHappened? and @Yoyo,
Sometimes I think such posts are plants just to hike the hit count; they are so blatantly concocted to instigate indignation. There are many here with whom I’ve disagreed, but not in this matter. A military career is a noble profession. Just like all other professions, it can have it’s share of scoundrels, too. But to all who served with honor, thanks for all you have done for us. To the families of those who gave their lives, there is nothing we can do to repay their sacrifice, except to keep their memory and achievements alive.
To those so willing to criticize the military, I remind you that they were given the party line of the politicians in power, which may or may not have any relation to whatever truth was going on. If there was ever an unjust war, I blame the politicians.
I wonder who bought the other 999,997?
My family has three and counting. Most likely four more by years end.
Go AAPL!
Two democracies have never gone to war against each other.
@ron. No sir, I was not.
We were given freedom of choice, my friend. This is what separates us from animals, which act on instinct. The choice was either to follow Him or roll your own government.
You will have that freedom no matter where you are, or what government regime you are under.
Unless you feel God chooses one country over another.
The iPad is to 2010 as the Macintosh was to 1984. Mark my words.
Now let’s all sit back and snicker as Microsoft’s astroturfers, paid bloggers, and faithful cultists attempt to spin this story into bad news. Because you know they will.
“What? ONLY 2 million units in less than 60 days? LOL APPLE!! EPIC FAIL!!!”
WhatHappened?
A perfect archetype of the “new world liberal”- completely devoid of respect, gratitude, or clue.
WhatHappened said: “And they will beat their swords into plowshears and neither will they learn war anymore.
Feel sorry for the vets who made the sacrifice, but a military career is not something I would be proud of.”
Your sentiments have merit, true. Yet they sound hollow. I object to war, yet I volunteered to serve during a war. Not because war is any way good, but because a) if you will not serve your country you do not deserve it and b) evil must be opposed. That “b” can be hard when neither side is actually “good”.
You can be proud of your career, or shamed by it. The only shame associated with a military career is in the need for it. Yet we have Afghanistan, where we initially fought to put down a threatening evil. Then we had Iraq, where we fought to support the evil aims of our corrupt leaders. Now we have Israel, whom we may have to fight because they attacked peaceful American citizens in international waters – though we bend over backwards to protect them. A soldier’s best use is sweeping their own barracks, ready to defend a nation from a threat that never comes … defend with a life if so required, better the life of the enemy than the defender.
Soldiers are not the enemy, for the most part. Politicians are the enemy.
To my dad who served in WWII and the Korean Conflict, thanks. 1915-2008. Arlington National Cemetery. RIP.
Thank you Uncle Winton for making the supreme sacrifice aboard USS Grayling in September 1943.
@WhatHappened
I’m a Vietnam vet. My ancestors have served in every conflict since the Pequot War circa 1637. I am happy you are at liberty to utter what you must.
A few Memorial Day quotes from Gen. George S. Patton, apropos Steve Jobs:
I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
Crawl back under your slimy rock. You know who you are you trolls and Apple haters. hehe
Said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, “We … are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone.”
And Steve does mean, everyone.
@WhatHappened?
I understand “what would happen if war was declared and no one showed up.”
I am a veteran (Navy) one thing I am very proud of is I helped save hundreds of lives from a Egyptian ferry disaster. The military does a lot of good around the world too, just does not get reported on. The iPad would not existed without military R&D;decades ago. Yes I would love for war to end. The military would still be around because we do more than just kill people.
@DLMeyer. Very well said.
I agree, my sentiments sound hollow. To be honest, how could they not on an internet forum. Without a full context, it is difficult to fully prove my stance. I respect the government, respect the country… but do not pledge allegiance to it.
“Soldiers are not the enemy, for the most part. Politicians are the enemy.”
Very true. Very true.
And from a religious standpoint… the idea of someone who is of a denomination (let’s say protestant) going to war and then being blessed by a minister who is praying for victory… and then killing other protestants who were blessed by their minister who thought the same thing… well, I just find that a little strange.
I know, I know… we must fight evil, right? Who determines what that is?
As Jeremiah wrote: Man has dominated himself to his own injury.
There is only one kingdom that can really fix this… Daniel 2:44.
To Dad: Shot down on 52nd mission over Germany, POW for nine months.
Thanks, I miss you.
@WetFX. I agree with you completely. I should’ve stated that it was human warfare that I meant. You’re absolutely right, though. The training and equipment the military provides makes men who are exceedingly good at being organized and survival. Natural disasters prove this, as the National Guard is often tasked with the recovery efforts.
If there were no war, we’d definitely need this skillset in men. This is most definitely something to be proud of! Whether we’d still call it the military or whether the word military would take on a different meaning, I don’t know.
@ WhatHappened?,
“The choice was either to follow Him or roll your own government.”
One doesn’t necessarily preclude the other; just look at the devout and Godly people of Iran.
And, on the Christian side, how about those Baptists from Kansas! You wouldn’t happen to be a member, would you? If not, they can always use a few good men.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church
@WhatHappened,
I can understand that as humans, we should not be proud of having military forces, however every person who fought for freedom or against forces of evil should be proud. Those who didn’t fight, but served in times of peace should also be proud of what their service provided for us. In the U.S. there have been countless unfought wars due to the strength of our military forces.
Thanks to my big brother Danny, who didn’t come home in ’71. Miss you still, thank you for your sacrifice.
<Feel sorry for the vets who made the sacrifice, but a military career is not something I would be proud of.>
First of all the vets who made the ultimate sacrifice don’t want or need your pity. In fact I would bet that they would want to remove your teeth because of that statement. That is just a guess though.
I am a Vet and I am extremely proud of my service to my country. To serve the land and people of ones birth is a high honor. You should give it a try. Then maybe you wouldn’t being such a C-Sucker….. Just saying…..
2 million iPads in 60 days. What is the latest estimate for Kindle devices? 2.5 million in three years or so? Why is it that Kindle is acclaimed as a worldwide success, but we still keep seeing stories about how the iPad will be a failure…
It has been an honour to have served and to those that paid the ultimate price, I salute you. 1SGT C YOU MAY BE GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN!
As some are bringing the Hiroshima topic: that bomb was terrible, no question. But without it, there would have been much more Japanese people killed, children too. My wife’s grandmother studied at the time in Hiroshima, well actually she had to work in a factory producing uniforms. She is lucky to be one of the survivers, and doesn’t feel angry against the US – she feels angry against the Japanese Governement and the Tenno, who betrayed their own people, and never sacrificed themselves. As she told me, she and most Japanese were pretty fanatic, and had no experience with gayjins (foreigners). And there was lots of racist propaganda of course. Very interesting for me is, that she told me she cannot understand how she could think like that – to remember is like watching another person. Anyway, they gave her a wodden stick, with which she should sacrifice herself for the honour of her country. She told me she would have done it, no question. Look at the videos of the mothers in Okinawa who killed their babies and commited suicide. The real criminals were the Japanese generals and the tenno, not Truman. It is estimated an invasion would have cost 7 million Japanese people, civilians too. As sorry as I feel for the 300’000 killed by the bomb, that was the best of all bad solutions.
By the way, the “Hiroshima was a crime” movement started in the mid sixties, when a young generation of intellectuals wanted to criticise the moral of their parents – that started in Germany (“how could you do Auschwitz?!”) and France (Algerie, Indochine), and the US-students had to find something else (of course, Vietnam felt like a gift for them) to show themselves their moral system was superior than that of their parents. However, please start reading history books, instead of watching the history channel.
Sorry my English is bad, normally I hold lectures in German and don’t type them on an iPhone.
come back zune tang , all is forgiven
“What is the latest estimate for Kindle devices? 2.5 million in three years or so?”
Yeah, but the new Kindle is going to be . . . thinner!
Woohoo.
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Hardly surprising. I vowed not to buy this first version but one visit to an Apple store was all it took to become an iPad owner. Seriously this device will change the face of computing just as the iPhone did the face of the mobile world.
Pointless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and somehow we are supposed to be GRATEFUL?
Wake up!
These aren’t wars, they are attacks on sovereign states, who, as it turns out, did little or no harm to the US.
Indeed, Saddam Hussein was supported by the US until the oil became an issue….and Afghanistan is a nothing little place which became the worlds leading supplier of Heroin after the US invaded. Nice job, boys.
Young foolish men die or get maimed, and then become ‘veterans’, as if some kind of wisdom has been given them by shooting some fish in a barrel. Nonsense.
This is a Mac site, not some Glorification of Murder site.
“remove your teeth”?
Are ‘vets’ becoming dentists now?
Or are they still playing the sympathy/tough guy duality thing which allows them to remain utterly unaware of the way that governments trick boys into being killers.
There are some seriously delusional people on this site today.
One million per month average for its first quarter (through June). Two million per month average for the rest of 2010. Total of 15 million for 2010.
The only way Apple does not hit 15 million iPads in 2010 is if Apple cannot produce 15 million iPads in 2010. Apple will sell every iPad it can produce.
@Ampar: “Yeah, but the new Kindle is going to be . . . thinner!”
So thin it’s going to fizzle away like wet rice paper… straight onto the heap of netbooks, Palm Pilots, Nokia tablets and other assorted stuff including the odd MP120 (but not MP2100) that are being junked by the score as users hit their personal ‘moment of usefulness’!
The iPad is transformational – I see having a role in the home, in the school and most intriguingly at work. The possibilities astound me.
To all of the praising the service of a fallen father, brother or uncle – thank you for honouring my brethern in arms.
To those of you who feel compelled to bait others, I feel sad for you. It is obvious you can’t argue or logic your way in a defensible position. You’ve clearly demonstrated both your lack of education and etiquette. When you comdemn the United States, then explain the 18-21M killed by the National Socialist Workers Party of Germany, the 40-56M killed the Communist Party of USSR and the 70-150M killed by Mao and his little Red Book of Socialism. My wife, my son and I all serve currently in the US military – and from these experiences I prefer to discuss the ways of the world with fellow Vets because they are more open-minded and wise to realities of the world. Typically those who haven’t served lack understanding and wisdom. Ever hear of an armchair quarterback – e.g. someone with an opinion but not much experience? Well it’s probably you!
@ Derek in Milan
You don’t even know what you are talking about. Memorial Day honors U.S. service members who died in military service. Not “veterans”; a military veteran is someone who served in combat. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines serve their nation in war and peace; they do not set U.S. foreign policy. You should be embarrassed at your inappropriate comments.
Yes, “This is a Mac site,” so please shut up.
Classic Paul Thurrott… now he ‘sees the light’… basically … what everyone was telling him 2 months ago.. now makes sense… whereas before, it was an ‘iDud’…
What a hopeless fool, a luddite, and a curmudgeon.
Remember back in the old days when people said that the iPad was “iFail”? Like 3 months ago
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For all of the Apple haters, that just added over half a billion dollars of NEW revenue in less than 60 days.
Newly iPad sold so well!! I have got one for my mother, and now budget one for my father in the Father’s day.
Some guys buy it may need some apps, free apps.
And the apps also make the cool device fun. Here, I’ll share some resouce about ipad, such as “Top 10 Best Free iPad Apps”, “Featured Free iPad Games”, “Free iPad Wallpapers ” and more.
http://www.ifunia.com/ipad-column/index.html
Hope someone enjoy it.
Reply to:
“I too, would like to echo the sentiments of those above me.
To all of those who serve, or have served, thank you.”
You are welcome.
I served 8 years in the US Air Force (SAC) during the Vietnam era, the Israeli wars, the cold war. Men in uniform frequently had to hide that fact when off duty because many in the American public blamed the soldier and not the politician.
I am glad to see the American public supporting the soldier today. It is much appreciated.
en
PS. Looking forward to getting an iPad. thanks Steve. Job well done.
Dan
Thank you to you and your family. Thanks for serving!
Happy Memorial Day and God Bless America.
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PS – thanks Ampar for your thoughtful words.
It is ironic that two key debates should be occur in parallel in this blog but for once, they are actually intertwined and deeply connected.
The root cause of most innovation for mankind has unfortunately been through conflict.
Wars over centuries and just the thirty plus conflicts since WWII have caused the creation of ever more innovative means of eliminating the enemy and entire peoples, many in the most disgusting genocides and holocausts. Likewise for the Cold War…
While these innovations were for destructive reasons, the same innovations isolated at the “micro”, “unit” or “digit” level, then recombined in different form have also lead to many fantastic peaceful results. Examples range from jet engines, rockets and rader to medical techniques from battle field surgery and the creation of the Red Cross complete with its blood banks. Teflon, integrated circuits and RFID are just three results of the Cold War. The technology driving UAVs in Iraq and Afganistan will eventually filter though into peaceful use one day soon.
Then there is the conflict between corporations in the form of the fight for market (and mind) share. The old IBM v DEC/Digital etc; on-going Microsoft v Apple; and more recently iPhone/iPad v HTC/Android/Nokia.
Wherever there is a difference in perspective or positioning, there is a conflicting point of view (Apple v Adobe Flash is a classic) which, coupled with the conviction of the contenders, drives the need to prevail.
Also on a personal level, there is the “conflictedness” that drives the aspiration to “keep up with the Joneses” creating the drive to get out there and earn the means to do it!
So that’s how we get to here, where we sit with our shiny new iPads, the pinnacle of innovation which has roots in conflict.
I mourn all humans of all sides that have lost their lives in these conflicts.
And I ask the winners of all conflicts to be magnanimous in their victory and take seriously their obligation to use their new innovations for a better and more peaceful World.
Taking Chance is spot-on.
thank you to those in the military who have sacrificed so that i may enjoy these wonderful apple products.
fellow MDN users, please stop responding to the douche “WhatHappened?” and his retarded AND contextually inappropriate comment.
Nicely said.
Are we really all that surprised at the success of the iPad? What other product comes even close?Kudos to Steve & ‘Apple Inc.’
You’re welcome, Roberto.
Memorial Day and Veterans Day are officially once a year but should also be remembered every day of the year. Semper fidelis.
I’m a veteran of both the US Army (enlisted) and the US Navy (officer). Like others, I am proud of my service and believe so many others today have missed the growth, perspective-building, experience, camaraderie, and pride that a well-lived time in the military provides. I believe our country is somewhat weaker as a result.
I have to say that I will have trouble remembering as many heartfelt comments aimed at those who lost their lives for the rest of us, as I find here on a forum not always known for such prosaic thoughts and words. I grateful to those who have left such thoughts and feelings and who have remembered specific people who have had a lifelong meaning to them.
As others have expressed, I am also disgusted by people like WhatsHappened and Derek in Milan who have no understanding of the meaning of life and sacrifice. It is true that I also fought for those with whom I disagree. But it is also true that I fought for my own right to vocally call oppose them for their disrespect, ignorance, arrogance, and mean-spiritedness. WhatsHappened has clearly chosen to take words from the Christian Bible out of context to suit his own attack on those who sacrificed themselves. He has ignored other parts of that same book and the overall framework of faith and obedience to God. He insults those soldiers who have always had, and continue to have, a deep reverence for and faith in God. I may have served so he can utter those words, but I choose not to stand in the same airspace as he occupies. There are so many others here with whom I would proudly stand.
I rarely feel honored on either Memorial Day or Veterans Day which have become shopping days for everyone instead of what it should have been. For an unusual moment here, I myself felt honored to read so may of these comments.
I thank all of those for their comments and remembrances.
I have flown the flag for each of the past four days and will continue to do so.
Thanks for sharing this article…..
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