“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.