“Apple’s iPad sold three million units in the first 80 days after its April release and its current sales rate is about 4.5 million units per quarter, according to Bernstein Research,” John Melloy reports for CNBC.
“This sales rate is blowing past the one million units the iPhone sold in its first quarter and the 350,000 units sold in the first year by the DVD player, the most quickly adopted non-phone electronic product,” Melloy reports. “‘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, in a note. ‘By any account, the iPad is a runaway success of unprecedented proportion.'”
MacDailyNews Take: At least one person most certainly did expect iPad to be a runaway success: MacDailyNews’ SteveJack. Read: Why I’ll be buying an Apple iPad – along with millions of others – January 27, 2010
Melloy reports, “At this current rate, the iPad will pass gaming hardware and the cellular phone to become the 4th biggest consumer electronics category with estimated sales of more than $9 billion in the U.S. next year, according to Bernstein. TVs, smart phones and notebook PCs are the current three largest categories.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arpan C” for the heads up.]
I got an iPad because it is my FIRST “mobile” device EVER. Never had a laptop and my phone is sooooo stupid… a six year old, plastic button thing that makes calls, can do text message if I could figure it out and if I wanted to and it even has a camera that you can attach and take very grainy photos…
Would love an iPhone, but after getting the iPad and then comparing it to iPhone there is no comparison. iPad screen real estate blows iPhone away. You don’t have to pinch to zoom as much. The iPhone, you pinch to zoom and then move the whole document all over creation to read the thing… iPad, you may need to pinch to zoom but you can do so and still have the document as one on the screen… very little movement, if at all, to read document top to bottom and left to right.
Some of the apps are just better on the iPad if the developer takes care to do so…
And finally, for me, yes it is an eye issue. My eyes have gone almost over night from having no problem reading the fine print to can’t make it out at all unless I extend it at arms length and make funny faces with my squinting eyes… Reading magnifier glasses work for now but I am a few years before 50, so what’s next? Arthritis… Damn you middle age…
Grant it the iPhone slips in your pocket for easy carrying on the go and I don’t drag the iPad out with me to a lot of places, but I do drag it out, throw it in the car have access to the internet and e-mail, etc when on the go, which can be nice sometimes…
My advice is to have her see and compare both… I still have my crappy six year old phone to make calls, but I have my iPad 3G for everything else and I do not regret my decision to purchase. If I wasn’t expected to pay another data plan on top of the unlimited $30 bucks I pay to AT&T, I would get an iPhone in a heart beat just to have an update modern cool phone, but outside of phone calls, it would be used only on the occasions my iPad was not brought with me, other than that, if I had the iPhone and iPad, the iPhone would be secondary to want to use for apps, movies, tv shows, photos, web and e-mail…
But again, you really just need to compare the two side by side… but you can’t beat screen real estate… that is the iPads TRUE edge in my opinion.
@childermass is right on. My tv and laptop don’t get much use! 3 book apps means I buy more books, but syncing is great. If I end up somewhere without my iPad, I can read it on my iPhone (my 4th). My laptop is really only used for video editing at this point and my TV for football! IPad is the best investment i’ve made in a long time. It is a complete game changer. Hand it to a kid. It’s an amazing thing to watch.
@childermass is right on. My tv and laptop don’t get much use! 3 book apps means I buy more books, but syncing is great. If I end up somewhere without my iPad, I can read it on my iPhone (my 4th). My laptop is really only used for video editing at this point and my TV for football! IPad is the best investment i’ve made in a long time. It is a complete game changer. Hand it to a kid. It’s an amazing thing to watch.
As great as my iPad is with its big screen, I totally wish it had a retina display like my iPhone. That thing is gorgeous.
As great as my iPad is with its big screen, I totally wish it had a retina display like my iPhone. That thing is gorgeous.
@ Aging Boomer,
Count me among those who turned down the iPhone 4 for the iPad 1.
The easy reading was the main reason but once I saw the major improvement in App quality, I was very glad I picked the 3G iPad over the 3G iPhone 4.
My iPad 1 is for sale when the iPad 2 arrives next July.
@ Aging Boomer,
Count me among those who turned down the iPhone 4 for the iPad 1.
The easy reading was the main reason but once I saw the major improvement in App quality, I was very glad I picked the 3G iPad over the 3G iPhone 4.
My iPad 1 is for sale when the iPad 2 arrives next July.
Note that he said the iPad will become the 4th largest category – not tablets.
Note that he said the iPad will become the 4th largest category – not tablets.
@Katie,
You watch football on your laptop?!?! I think I love you.
@Katie,
You watch football on your laptop?!?! I think I love you.
Paul Thurrott: “The iPad is an iDud”
Paul Thurrott: “The iPad is an iDud”
@ Adam T. Lindley, @Aging Boomer, Big Als MBP,
Thanks for the tips. I was originally going to get my wife an iPad for Christmas, but her phone clonked out and I thought I would get us both an iPhone instead. She lives on the phone and it seems as if those available from AT&T are either smart phones or junk. I figure the iPhone is the best quality available.
I guess I’ll think about it; maybe I can get both. Anyway, thanks again.
@ Adam T. Lindley, @Aging Boomer, Big Als MBP,
Thanks for the tips. I was originally going to get my wife an iPad for Christmas, but her phone clonked out and I thought I would get us both an iPhone instead. She lives on the phone and it seems as if those available from AT&T are either smart phones or junk. I figure the iPhone is the best quality available.
I guess I’ll think about it; maybe I can get both. Anyway, thanks again.
I’m a bit ahead of the Baby Boomer generation, as I’ll be 79 in December. My eyes are still reasonably good.
I work with a software company (DEVONtechnologies) and do a great deal of work on the Internet.
The iPad is a wonder. I find myself spending more work (and play) time on it than on my 27-inch iMac i7 or my laptop. That 9.7-inch screen provides enough room for comfortable reading of mail, PDFs, etc. and I’m doing most of my drafting writing on the iPad — and I read a LOT of books on it.
I also have an iPhone 3G and the current iPod Touch. That retina display is incredibly sharp. But although I carry the iPhone in a belt pouch when I’m away from my house, I carry the iPad everywhere, and it’s what I’ll use for reading or work. The larger screen size (and larger screen keyboard) make it genuinely useful, compared to the smaller devices. Yet the iPad is diminutive, compared to a MacBook. I like the Apple iPad cover, which protects it well, yet adds very little to its weight and thickness.
I’m a bit ahead of the Baby Boomer generation, as I’ll be 79 in December. My eyes are still reasonably good.
I work with a software company (DEVONtechnologies) and do a great deal of work on the Internet.
The iPad is a wonder. I find myself spending more work (and play) time on it than on my 27-inch iMac i7 or my laptop. That 9.7-inch screen provides enough room for comfortable reading of mail, PDFs, etc. and I’m doing most of my drafting writing on the iPad — and I read a LOT of books on it.
I also have an iPhone 3G and the current iPod Touch. That retina display is incredibly sharp. But although I carry the iPhone in a belt pouch when I’m away from my house, I carry the iPad everywhere, and it’s what I’ll use for reading or work. The larger screen size (and larger screen keyboard) make it genuinely useful, compared to the smaller devices. Yet the iPad is diminutive, compared to a MacBook. I like the Apple iPad cover, which protects it well, yet adds very little to its weight and thickness.
Wii sold 20m in the first year.
Wii sold 20m in the first year.
Get home from work tired. Download a novel to my Kindle app, watch ‘Spooks’ on Netflix, read the novel, relax.
Get an email while I am lying in bed reading.
Reply to email, back to novel.
Love my iPad.
Get home from work tired. Download a novel to my Kindle app, watch ‘Spooks’ on Netflix, read the novel, relax.
Get an email while I am lying in bed reading.
Reply to email, back to novel.
Love my iPad.
“At this current rate, the iPad will… become the 4th biggest consumer electronics category…”
Hmm… the iPad will have its very own CE catagory? Nice!
MaWo: ‘freedom’. As in, “from MS ‘products’.”
“At this current rate, the iPad will… become the 4th biggest consumer electronics category…”
Hmm… the iPad will have its very own CE catagory? Nice!
MaWo: ‘freedom’. As in, “from MS ‘products’.”
I really want to get the ipad. But i am a person who always gets the first latest technology and then there comes updates, and better technology so i miss out on the new stuff. But knowing apple,
http://leanspaacai.org
I really want to get the ipad. But i am a person who always gets the first latest technology and then there comes updates, and better technology so i miss out on the new stuff. But knowing apple,
http://leanspaacai.org