“People are loving iPad as it becomes a part of their daily lives,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “We’re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more people around the world, including those in nine more countries next month.”
Developers have created over 11,000 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 225,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone or iPod touch.
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.
Source: Apple Inc.
MacDailyNews Take: Bloodbath. Revise those iPad unit sales estimates upwards yet again, all ye “analysts.”
As we’ve been saying since analysts began estimating unit sales the day after iPad was unveiled, the anaylsts’ estimates are too low and will have to be revised upward if they want their predictions to be more accurate.
Oh, BTW:
• Bill Gates: ‘iPad is not quite there yet… because it has no input’ – June 04, 2010
• Bill Gates on Apple iPad: ‘It’s okay’ – April 21, 2010
• Bill Gates: ‘There’s nothing on iPad I look at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it’’ – February 10, 2010
The first to upgrade their estimates should be Forrester Research.
http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/forrester_projects_plummeting_ipad_sales/
They’re quickly running out of track on their insanely low estimate of 3.5M iPads for 2010.
I got mine last Friday.
Wow!
“…and we helped!”
I have two iPads, one for me, and the other for my wife. She calls her iPad “my baby.” Way to go, Apple, and of course, way to go, Steve Jobs.
Seriously, the “magical” needs to stop. It’s just embarrasing.
Jus think: We still have the back-to-school and holiday shopping seasons before the year is out.
As for me, I’m hoping my iMac and iPod touch (even with the crack I put in its screen last weekend) will hold me until iPad G2 (Retina screen, camera and RAM boost would be nice).
I’m right there with you. Although I don’t care much for a camera. RAM boost and storage boost to 128 gigs would be great!
iPad production ramping up quickly. 700.000 units in April, 1 Mio in May and 1,5 Mio in June. That make 3,5 Mio iPads in the first quarter and and least 4,5 Mio units in the next quarter and expect some additional sales for the holiday saison. So it´s not out of possibility, that Apple exceed the numbers already in 2010 which analyists predict for 2011.
@ shake n bake:
I thought you would of used the Talladega Nights clip. But holy shit i haven’t seen that commercial in years.
One every two seconds
Ah, come on! Everyone knows those are just Apple cultists. The iPad doesn’t have anything that consumers were asking for!
I’ll eschew comments about a slide-out keyboard.
2.3 seconds to be precise. But makes Steve’s 3 seconds a pretty conservative rounding error.
sufficiently advanced technology is magical. i think someone once made a comment about that.
Like a race… Apple is running the course while the others are trying to find the starting line…
Balmer must be going totally mad right about now…
Enjoying the iPad 3G that I just got from my company for sales on the road. It is fast becoming my go to/main computer; only occasionally do I have to bring out the big guns (Macbook Pro). Most likely, Apple will sell about 12M of these in 2010, with an outside chance of 15M.
BTW, I’m (slowly) learning to touch type on it!
Go Apple!!
Ok, roll those semi’s out fast! CEO Ballmer is trashing the place. More chairs are needed!
Note: Ballmer is now breaking office furniture. New order to include: desk, lamps, desktop, monitor, printer, window (dual pane), bookcase, and Costco size order of Depends.
ABQ Peter –
Yep, the “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” quote penned by the sadly late Sir Arthur Clarke.
It was included in his 1961 roundup volume ‘Profiles of the Future’.
(Ahem, Geek Mode now over…)
And… another day goes by with no new Mac Pros. 🙁
I’ve been saying 10 million in 2010 since the day it was introduced that may even be low!
12-15 million in 2010?
I wonder what the breakdown is on 3G vs. wi-fi iPads?
Does anyone know roughly how many Windows tablets have been sold in total? I’m wondering how long it will take the iPad to outsell the whole last decade of the tablet market.
Or has that already happened?
Consider this:
Having chosen to spend the dough on an iPhone 4, I’m waiting to see the second gen iPad. So’s my GF. I’m guessing there are at least a few million more like us, so this sin’t going to slow down any time soon.
2M after 60 days.
3M after 80 days.
that makes the current rate 50000 per day, or 1 iPad every 1.73 seconds.
@ChrissyOne:
“Tablet PC sales are just a drop in the bucket,” says Daoud. IDC estimates that worldwide sales for tablet PCs barely breached 1 million in 2009. That’s a very small fraction of the 162 million mobile PCs that analysts expected to be sold last year.”
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/convertible-notebooks-seek-to-share-the-spotlight-on-tablets/
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Another analyst says:
“Even more so when you realize that only 3 million to 4 million tablet PCs are sold annually according to Peng and Endpoint Technologies’ analyst Roger Kay.”
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/apples-ipad-to-demand-lions-share-of-tablet-pc-market/
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So we’re looking at 1 to 4 million tablets sold in 2009. That’s a huge range. Either way it goes, one company (Apple) has bested multiple manufacturers’ 2009 sales combined in just 80 days and this is just the beginning.
These guys don’t even know what hit them.