“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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@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.
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“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.
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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.’