Apple Announces Three Million iPads Sold in 80 Days

[-=XX=-Nephilim]

Posting this on this forum... Taking the time to log in and to spit venom... Quite amazing... keep on doing this, we love trolls here... Always a good reason to laugh! Queston though: are you a masochist and own a mac?

Not trolling at all...

iPad is so pointless and so useless in my humble opinion that I still didn't even go to shop to check it out first hand... and this is coming from someone who checks most of the tech things that matter 1st day that they come out!

It isn't hate either...

Again, it is just personal opinion on device that doesn't do ANYTHING more or better than what my iPod Touch, Phone, Laptop or Desktop does. In fact it does way less...

Simple as that - hence iPad is UTTER FAIL at least in its current incarnation

Perhaps 2nd gen will swing my opinion - who knows...

Until then - yaaaaaaaaaawnnnnn...

 

[SailorMike]

I laugh every time I read those bitter emails complaining about iPad deficiencies.

This device is such a delight to use, it makes their trash talking insanely funny. They have no clue. Just flapping pie holes.

We have three in our family and they are in constant use. Hey Steve, we could use a couple more.

 

[Captainobvvious]

It seems like an expensive toy that is missing a lot of features.

I am waiting for the next generation of the device to see where it goes.

Now I haven't EVER seen the thing in person and I hear from people I know that have it is AMAZING... I think its best I keep thinking the way I do and never come into contact with one so I can save some money

I have every hope that next year's model is gonna be much better. I get the feeling that its gonna blow next year's iphone out of the water, and it should it has a ton more real estate inside to do that. I think iPad 2 is going to be a massive upgrade.

 

[Lord Vader]

Not trolling at all...

iPad is so pointless and so useless in my humble opinion that I still didn't even go to shop to check it out first hand... and this is coming from someone who checks most of the tech things that matter 1st day that they come out!

It isn't hate either...

Again, it is just personal opinion on device that doesn't do ANYTHING more or better than what my iPod Touch, Phone, Laptop or Desktop does. In fact it does way less...

Simple as that - hence iPad is UTTER FAIL at least in its current incarnation

Perhaps 2nd gen will swing my opinion - who knows...

Until then - yaaaaaaaaaawnnnnn...

Troll can't be more obvious can he?

 

[vijay007]

My Doctor told this is good for my Apple stocks

 

[spazzcat]

Exactly. You never buy a 1st gen apple product. Wait until 3rd or 4th gen.

While you are waiting, I am enjoying...

 

[belvdr]

Again...as more and more people use this - the wider spread the device will become. Just today I was in a meeting at work and one of the executives was using one to go through email...iPad's and iPhones are the preferred device at my job. Other people were eyeing it enviously when they compared his email experience to the rest of us using smart phones.

Good assumption, but not fact yet. I know many people want iPad, but can't find the value in a several hundred dollar tablet, especially when you still need a laptop or desktop to do some basic tasks. We have some iPads and iPhones at work, but they are still not as secure as the RIM devices currently. The other issue is taking the iPad with you can be more troublesome. For example, my wife would never take an iPad with her while being out with the kids. However, she always has her phone with her and can check email easily.

Well go spend $1800-$2800 for an HP tape back up to back up a $100 hard drive if you wish... I spent $85 for a terrabyte usb drive. At the office we use NAS. All cheaper and more efficient. With hot swap NAS you can take the back ups off site.

(Yes, you can still get 80 gig tape for $600, but come on 80 gig ? $600 ?)

In the consumer world, tape may be dead, but tape is not dead in the enterprise. You don't get $100 hard drives for servers you care about nor do you use $85 USB drives for backup purposes. Now that I think of it, tape was never a big hit in the consumer space.

NAS is nice, but when you have 200TB of data, shipping the data across WAN links (even with deduplication), can't be done in all cases. This is where tape shines.

 

[johnnymg]

I pads are showing up everywhere. I was in court this morning to be a whiteness in a misdemeanor trial and a cop had the ipad.
All you naysayers are pathetic in the way you wrote off the ipad thinking if it didn't run full OSX, print have 1080 and an i7 chip is was destined for failure. Its success just goes to show how little most of you armchair pundits know about what the general tech buying public wants.
Apple is the yard stick in the tech arena.
Next year ipad will have retina display(crossing fingers), camera, more ram. And the ones that bought the latest generation ipad will upgrade. They'll have a year to have fun fun fun and then save save save for the next ipad.

That's a EXCELLENT point. I'm willing to bet the VAST majority of current owners will upgrade when the new model comes out in 9-10 months. Will likely see 10+ million sales for the first year. Swing batta-batta-batta!

cheers to the longs ~~~~~~~
JohnG

 

[spazzcat]

I love all the sour grapes. I do almost all my web surfing on my iPad. I almost never touch my MBP.

 

[emulator]

Posting this on this forum... Taking the time to log in and to spit venom... Quite amazing... And adding that there is no "killer app"... Do us a favor and define what a killer app is? Because unless your comment is backed up by some fact and an explanation it remains pure BS by my standard... Anyways, keep on doing this, we love trolls here... Always a good reason to laugh!

Last question though: are you a masochist and own a mac?

So he cannot hate the iPad and own a Mac? You either have to own every single Apple product or you're a troll? Nice elitist logic there. Numbers still mean nothing. In that case, Windows is a magical product cause it seduced so many people.

 

[Lord Vader]

Tape is not dead in the enterprise.

You know what that means? Tape is dead.

 

[spazzcat]

That's a EXCELLENT point. I'm willing to bet the VAST majority of current owners will upgrade when the new model comes out in 9-10 months. Will likely see 10+ million sales for the first year. Swing batta-batta-batta!

cheers to the longs ~~~~~~~
JohnG

I always skip a gen. So I will buy a 3rd Gen iPad.

 

[UTclassof89]

Exactly. You never buy a 1st gen apple product. Wait until 3rd or 4th gen.

at most 2nd gen.

I've used Apple products for almost 20 years and I would never buy 1st. generation ANYTHING from Apple.

But thanks all you 3 million people, for being guinea pigs, and funding Apple's R&D for the iPad2! That one will be awesome.

 

[Xavier]

How do you spell success?

 

[SailorMike]

While you are waiting, I am enjoying...

True that. Mine will be worn out by the time the next gen one comes out.

 

[notjustjay]

How do you spell success?

R-O-L-A-I-D-S?

Oh, wait, wrong commercial.

 

[belvdr]

You know what that means? Tape is dead.

Something is not dead, so that means it is dead. I guess fibre channel, SANs, iSCSI, clustered firewalls, and Unix machines are dead too, as they are not in the consumer space but exist very much in the enterprise.

If you say so.

 

[Captainobvvious]

True that. Mine will be worn out by the time the next gen one comes out.

Its true. I didn't buy this year's model only because I think the iPad 2 is going to be a VERY significant upgrade. Granted I have never seen or used the current iPad.

Normally I don't think that way though. I sigh and roll my eyes when I hear people say they aren't buying the new "whatever" because next year there is going to be something bigger and better... THAT IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE TRUE.

If you stop yourself from enjoying something because you're afraid its going to be obsolete then play with your abacus and fix your sundial and don't bother with tech stuff.

 

[Docrjm]

I can't believe apple did this. Just goes to show you why we should all wait for the next iPad

Then you can permanently wait and go nowhere, as there will always be more in the next version

 

[Lord Vader]

Something is not dead, so that means it is dead. I guess fibre channel, SANs, iSCSI, clustered firewalls, and Unix machines are dead too, as they are not in the consumer space but exist very much in the enterprise.

If you say so.

You just wrote why it's dead.

 

[notjustjay]

Not trolling at all...

iPad is so pointless and so useless in my humble opinion that I still didn't even go to shop to check it out first hand... and this is coming from someone who checks most of the tech things that matter 1st day that they come out!

Again, it is just personal opinion on device that doesn't do ANYTHING more or better than what my iPod Touch, Phone, Laptop or Desktop does. In fact it does way less...

Simple as that - hence iPad is UTTER FAIL at least in its current incarnation

Wait, so you're judging the product yet you've never even bothered to go look at one, let alone try one out?

And then you come here and say it's "so pointless and so useless" and it "doesn't do anything more or better"? Again, to clarify -- you've never actually seen one?

I mean, sure, you're welcome to your opinion, but that's an awfully uninformed one.

And then to come here, and tell others, including those of us who, you know, have actually touched an iPad, that somehow we're crazy for actually wanting to buy this product... well. Let's just say I can see why people think you're trolling.

Why don't you go to the store and play with one. Try it out. If you still hate it, then come here and add some credibility to your argument by saying "I tried it, I don't like it". But you never know, you might be surprised. The iPad "experience" isn't all about the tech specs or checklists of what it can or can't do.

Put it this way. I was skeptical, and disappointed, too, when I saw the introduction keynote. I didn't get a chance to see one in person until May 28, when they were released in Canada. I walked into Best Buy during my lunch hour to try it out, thinking I'd surely hate it, that I could just buy an iPhone or iPod touch instead and save a pile of money. Or, that even if I did find things to like, that I'd surely wait for revision 2, which would include many more features and maybe even a low price. No, either way, I had ZERO intention of buying one.

Thirty minutes later, I walked out of there holding an iPad of my own. And it has been an arm's reach away from me, constantly, ever since then.

 

[belvdr]

Thirty minutes later, I walked out of there holding an iPad of my own. And it has been an arm's reach away from me, constantly, ever since then.

I enjoyed playing with an iPad in the Apple Store, but the only additional capability for my purposes is a 3G radio. Considering I already have an iPod Touch and a MiFi, I can do whatever the iPad can do and, as such, have a hard time justifying the expense.

You just wrote why it's dead.

You make no sense whatsoever.

See kids, this is why you need to think before you write.

 

[RawBert]

This device is fail...

3 million might have bought and there might be another 10 who are queuing up - but that doesn't mean that device does anything original and useful... apart from filling Apples bank account of course

Once device is able to support full internet available today and once it has dozen or so of "killer apps" then maybe, just maybe...

Until then big massive yaaaaawnnnn...

How many times are you going to make the same point??? Are you really convincing anyone that you're right? Every time I see a post from you, it's anti-iPad. Give it a rest, man.

 

[notjustjay]

You make no sense whatsoever.

See kids, this is why you need to think before you write.

No, no, it makes perfect sense. The iPad is junk because Unix is dead. What's so hard to understand?

I enjoyed playing with an iPad in the Apple Store, but the only additional capability for my purposes is a 3G radio. Considering I already have an iPod Touch and a MiFi, I can do whatever the iPad can do and, as such, have a hard time justifying the expense.

My situation is a bit different because I don't own an iPod touch or iPhone. I was on the iPhone fence for a long time but I can't justify the contract lock-in. The iPad was appealing not only on its own merit, but because of the new ability to buy a 3G data plan without signing a contract and without paying upwards of $30/month. THIS is the real revolution, that Apple has given consumers some clout to fight back against the cell phone carriers and their crazy rates. (Keep in mind I come from Canada, where everything's on a THREE year contract and until the iPhone, carriers were charging per KILOBYTE for data usage.)

 

[Bytor65]

I pads are showing up everywhere. I was in court this morning to be a whiteness in a misdemeanor trial and a cop had the ipad.

Yep. Airlines are going to be using them for inflight entertainment. Hyundai new Equus is coming with an iPad for the owners manual, restaurants are using them for menus. I see them all over TV. Apparently they are all over the Whitehouse.

It is amazing how it went from non existent to Ubiquitous in under 3 months. How Apple completely nailed a dead niche to the point that they now have captured the first mover advantage. From now on it hardly matters how long some niche competitor has been producing tablets, they are only going to be seen as iPad wannabes.

Naysayers trying to downplay the stunning success here only make themselves look ridiculous.