I consider myself very lucky to have found one at a Best Buy the day after launch. Thank you random whoever who didn't pick his/her's up the night before!
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'Amazing' Demand May Have Fueled Sales of Up to 1 Million iPad 2s
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To this day I can't figure out what the "potential" for the iPad is aside from a handful of very specific tasks in only a handful of professions.
I think it's safe to say that a lot of (possibly most) iPad sales are really iLust and nothing more.
Who's been waiting a decade for this?
Consumer demand for tablets has been stagnant because for the most part, tablets didn't add any value to an individual's computing needs. The iPad really doesn't add much either for most users, but it is shiny and attractive, combined with a good app store.
I couldn't even look at the thing at my local Apple Store and Best Buy yesterday. Too many people crowding around and trying to play with it. All I wanted to see was how it looked since it's thinner. And I couldn't even do that. It's insane and partly ridiculous.
I'll join the crowd and get one, but like you, when it has better resolution. I can wait it out. Some people I think need it to survive.
'Should have'?
You care to explain how the dual core processor would have been available that this price a year ago, or how the faster graphics chips would magically have been available?
Or source your info that says that the lighter battery and thinner glass could have been available at this cost?
Or why Apple should have released a pointless camera before seeding FaceTime environment with iPhone 4 and touch?
I'm pretty sick of the armchair CEOs drinking their conspiracy theories.
On the other hand, I guess offering no incremental improvements would have resulted in kudos from y'all, right?
To me iPad 1 is a little more than a proof of concept. iPad 2 however, can be taken seriously. After I spent all the time ridiculing iPad 1 last year, I now bought iPad 2 and am pretty excited.
I'm going by an apple store today to look at one on display. You guys get your ipads so ebay prices will fall!
Problem is that a majority of the sales went to resellers and not actual customers wanting them...
And your evidence for that is...?
What nonsense.
Looks like you discouraged Full of Win. This guy practically camps out in the MR Forums just so he can get first post - but you beat him to it. He has probably lost all reason to live now.
Not saying he's right, but this is likely what he was thinking of:
https://www.macrumors.com/2011/03/1...ad-individual-resellers-ship-internationally/
Then you apparently haven't owned a v1 for the past year.
Mine replaced 90% of my laptop/desktop functionality and added countless other uses traditional computers can't perform.
I'd be getting a v2, except for the fact that my wife gets v2 while I happily coast on my v1 and await v3.
Of all the things you listed here, the one possible reason I'd want to upgrade from my 1 to a 2 is the screen mirroring. I don't have a problem with video and 'Keynote' mirroring, but when trying to explain how to do something on a personal web page, the 1 cannot mirror that web page on a projector. Also, since I don't have an HD projector, I do hope that mirroring works with SVGA projectors as well; it's what I use and I'm not willing to spend more hundreds to upgrade to an HD projector just yet.
yes, because when ipad1 was released all the other ultra-thin capacitive touchscreeen tablets on the market had these features in their devices.
sure, buddy.
What I loved about the haters is that they called this 1.5 when in reality, this should have been the iPad and what those crybabies did was buy the iPad .5 before it was fully developed. Don't hate us for buying the new version when the product was complete. Hate yourselves for not being able to wait for a completed project. You guys got screwed by Apple, not us.
Predicting how the sales of iPad 2 were going to go is like predicting tonights Lotto numbers. No one knew, not even Apple. I was expecting big things but not this big.
I think WHEN people lined up was interesting. SO MANY people showed up in the final hour. Are they dumb or did they think there would be no interest in this model? They were wrong!
I think WHEN people lined up was interesting. SO MANY people showed up in the final hour. Are they dumb or did they think there would be no interest in this model? They were wrong!
I bet more people are using these as computer replacements than you'd think. All you need is an iTunes account. For those who can download iTunes at work, they can do any needed syncing there. For those who can't, all they need is a friend or family member willing to do so for them.
My friend bought her iPad 1 several months ago, and so far she's only needed one sync (after the inital sync). I'll be doing another one in the next week or so to upgrade her IOS. She's an older lady, so she just uses it for what it is best at - browsing, emailing, movies, games, etc. She went from a PC that I was constantly having to clean up and expensive DSL service to her iPad and 3G when she needs it (and she never goes over 250MB per month). For her, it truly replaced her PC and saved her a ton of money, and she just brings it over every 3 months or so to sync.
The day I was in the store buying my own iPad, there was a guy in there helping his dad to buy one, and that was their plan too.
Very true,
I am in the same boat. At least I was able to get mine without wait and line.
Couple friends are asking me to bring when I travel overseas next week and now it seems so damn hard to find them. Crazy stuff.
I wish I had Apple stock.
Blurry?
Blurry? The iPad and iPad 2 screens are blurry? I am forced at this juncture to disagree in the strongest possible terms.
Unless you're talking about the camera in the iPad 2. That produces blurry pictures.
Blurry? The iPad and iPad 2 screens are blurry? I am forced at this juncture to disagree in the strongest possible terms.
Unless you're talking about the camera in the iPad 2. That produces blurry pictures.
some may have been dumb, but the launch was at 5:00. I'm sure most people just strolled over after they got out of work.
nope. consumer demand for tablets was weak because the tablets were weak.
pretty simple, really. now that the tablet has capacitive touch, super slim, very light, and a broad range of usefulness, consumers are recognizing the value in them and voting w/ their dollars.
to suggest its all part of a mystical "iLust" craze is childish fantasy.
Last year the sold 1,000,000 iPads on 28 days... this year they may reach that amount in just 3 days lol
I think people are waisting their Income Tax foolishly when they should be saving it to pay bills.
probably a tenth of a century...... and also english is not my primary language!
please be more tolerant......... how many americans know more or less where new york city is located? not many, i'm afraid........