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'Amazing' Demand May Have Fueled Sales of Up to 1 Million iPad 2s
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7o7munoz7o7
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i was one of those one million!! (i know its not the actual number, but i bet its close!) I was number 20 in line at Best Buy and i got the LAST white 32GB iPad 2!! I was super juiced...sucks for the other 200 people behind me though
Capt Underpants
macrumors 68030
I'm waiting for screen upgrade. I can't see myself buying a device with a screen that is basically 3 years old(1 year development of ipad1, 1 year of ipad sales and now the same screen in ipad2). Plus rumors has it a new ipad will be out in September 2011. If not I'll wait till next March or till they upgrade the screen. It will be worth the wait. I have iphone 3gs and the wife has iPhone4. The difference in screen quality is astonishing and I wont settle for anything less... I do think the ipad 2 is very sweet, but I can wait it out. Plus I'll be upgrading to iphone5 this summer so that should hold me over...
NutsNGum
macrumors 68030
This is a forum, wouldn't you say people are entitled to disagree with your comments?
I, for one, find it a little surprising. It's amazing what you can do by bringing out what should have been your first generation device.
Yeasayers, save your comments!!
Charlie Sheen
macrumors 6502
I'd say instead that a ton of very happy iPad 1 buyers seeded the ground for even more happy v2 owners.
The cameras are huge IMO. I can without a doubt say they are the primary reason I plan on getting my Mom one for her birthday/christmas this year, as well as our mother in law. Facetiming with the family is awesome, and the iPad is a perfect way to do it. Both mom's use Kindles currently and enjoy them, and the iPad I have no doubts would be right up their alley. Simple to use, most of the benefit of a PC (email, games, internet, etc). The iPad 2 is going to be selling like wildfire for a long time.
BTW, got my wife one on Friday. Waited 2 hours at Best buy for it. As this article says, sold out instantly.
BTW, got my wife one on Friday. Waited 2 hours at Best buy for it. As this article says, sold out instantly.
ctdonath
macrumors 68000
Pent-up demand. Someone finally delivered what the market wanted.
The economy isn't great, but that doesn't mean nobody has a few hundred bucks to spend on something they've been waiting a decade for.
I was amazed at the lines this weekend. VERY long. The cameras are a big deal. I really hope though, that the iPad 3 cameras are much better. The ones in this one are more of an afterthought.
ghostface147
macrumors 601
I'm in the same boat. I played with it at the Apple Store (where they had plenty of Wi-Fi models available) and it was too blurry for me. I guess having the retina display i4 spoiled me.
7o7munoz7o7
macrumors regular
i dont get why people like you have that comment....obviously you have to learn and improve on what you have made....it was a first gen...and still to this day is number 2 just under the iPad 2...the first gen iPad is better still to this day then other tablets that are coming out. With the next iPad...people are going to cry and complain...how come
didnt just put that in the 2nd gen?!!? its a never ending cycle in which people have NO information on....
Mattie Num Nums
macrumors 68030
Once the iPad screen res gets bumped up. Im in love with it. Until then I'm just happy with it.
Jon the Heretic
macrumors 6502
Lack of stock
I doubt 1mill units sold because I doubt 1 mill units were made available to sell. Almost every unit they did stock sold out in the first hour or so, so calling this "first weekend" is disingenuous. They only had stock for an hour and it was gone. And at least in my area, no shipments since the first (and this is Monday noon).
After that first hour, you might have scored a 64-gig white model or maybe a 3G Verizon (likely also white, 64-gig), but heck I'd be willing to wait 3 weeks too if those were the only models available. (I'd even take a bargain priced 1Pad 1 over one of those and save the money for an iPad 3 next year.)
I doubt 1mill units sold because I doubt 1 mill units were made available to sell. Almost every unit they did stock sold out in the first hour or so, so calling this "first weekend" is disingenuous. They only had stock for an hour and it was gone. And at least in my area, no shipments since the first (and this is Monday noon).
After that first hour, you might have scored a 64-gig white model or maybe a 3G Verizon (likely also white, 64-gig), but heck I'd be willing to wait 3 weeks too if those were the only models available. (I'd even take a bargain priced 1Pad 1 over one of those and save the money for an iPad 3 next year.)
Screen upgrade is a must for ipad IMO. Something that is that close to my eyes needs to be like glass...
FuNGi
macrumors 65816
ditto. I too love the iP4 resolution. After playing with friend's 3GS and iPad1 - I can't imagine buying a pad with less than that. Of course, the iPad itself, wouldn't really fit between my iPhone and MBA either. I am thinking of getting one so my mother, who has never been on the internet, could chat with me over video. With her vision the resolution wouldn't matter 😛
rwilliams
macrumors 68040
The geek part of me wants one, but I still can't figure out where it fits in with my other devices (MacBook, iPhone, iPod Touch), and therefore I can't justify the cost. Maybe the rumored iPad 3 (if it comes out later this year) will be so amazing that rationalizing the purchase won't even be needed. 🙂
Mad Mac Maniac
macrumors 601
I bet Apple will release a press release announcing 1M sometime before the international launch
I'm surprised that you're surprised. iDevice v.2 has always had a bigger release market than v.1.
This. I just replaced my iPHone 4 for an iPAd. And even though I made a good choice (for me) I can imagine how this device is gonna be with a retina display! That is the reason i skipped the new one, and am waiting for the iPAd 3😀
or what RAM does for that matter..
although you cant blame them.. it really comes down to whether the devise performs well for what its made.. and the ipad clearly does..
BC2009
macrumors 68020
I think it has much more to do with the expansion of the tablet market and popularity coinciding with well publicized product launch. Last year's launch was for early adopters. But by Christmas, the iPad had become main stream and you had all those folks seeing their friends toting their new iPads after the holidays. Made them think "hmmm... that's cool, wish I had one" -- the iPad does its own marketing in many ways. Couple that with Motorola putting tablets on a Super Bowl commercial (as another poster pointed out) which further raises awareness and you create a recipe for the success of the iPad 2 launch.
The ones "holding out" for the next version are always going to be there, but they are a relatively small number of informed people who are waiting for specific features to meet their needs -- they don't propel sales into the near-one-million range. My guess is that the iPad 3 launch will be in bigger, and it won't be driven by the small number of people who are "holding out" -- but rather by the expansion of the market and increased awareness of the potential of tablet computing.
Personally, I own the iPad 1 and I had my iPad 2 order in at 1:01am. Many iPad 2 buyers I know could care less about the camera or FaceTime. The things that sold most iPad 1 owners on this are things like:
- More memory
- More speed
- Better Graphics
- Video Mirroring
- Thinner/Lighter Design
and, amazingly....
- Smart Covers
Cameras, FaceTime and Gyroscope will be cool, but those are bells and whistles and not stuff most users will find themselves using all the time. Albeit, these features are extremely important to some users and I am betting those who really want a good camera will either pickup a Motorola Xoom or wait for the next iteration of iPad.
My guess: iPad 2 HD this November in the "Year of the iPad 2". The new iteration will have decent cameras, LED flash, and a Retina Display and maybe (just maybe) 1GB RAM. Thereafter, iPad will become an October/November launch.
Cameras for FaceTime sure, but I'd bet the majority of them didn't even know, or care much about "more memory." If they were the types who actually cared about memory that much, 512MB still would've been too small.