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Apple Announces Three Million iPads Sold in 80 Days
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What's the point in announcing sales of three million? It's just a big one million.
My take is to get the internet over the addiction to Adobe Flash! I have a burn scar here due to Adobe Flash and Hulu - falling asleep with the laptop in my lap
Bring on HTML5 videos... The ABC and Netflix apps rock.. not heat build up and good battery life. Almost never go to Hulu now... missing some of my shows - but voting with my clicks here....
Meh. My I still prefer my iPhone from 2007 to android devices. The os and end-user experience of the original iphone has yet to be matched by a competitor.
You were one of the many that said it would be an epic fail...it's clear you were wrong, and you're reduced to talking about a marketing word.
I anticipated how I could use the iPad for business, and it worked exactly the way I thought--perfectly. So my 17" MBP stayed in the hotel room when I went to a recent biomed conference. I was able to have my Keynote slides and QT movies on the iPad, and when people stopped by the booth, or when we sat around a small conference table I was able to show data and video right in my hands. It's fast, it's a great business tool, plus I've read a bunch of books, PDFs and watched a bunch of TV shows and movies, surfed, got my email at breakfast, revised travel plans, used the Maps app, and the battery lasts all day, real-world 10 hours. Recharges quickly. Really like the Apple case too.
I really don't care if some Luddites or Teen Geeks think it doesn't have whatever. It's a first gen but worth every penny as is.
I really don't care if some Luddites or Teen Geeks think it doesn't have whatever. It's a first gen but worth every penny as is.
If you put 3 million iPads next to each other lengthwise, the line formed would extend 452 miles.
Wow, that is magic. I wonder how its mojo holds up when there is several females in a group.
Wow, that is magic. I wonder how its mojo holds up when there is several females in a group.
I just worked out that if you put all the iPhones that have been sold, it would be longer than the distance from NYC to LA, that a longgg way
Passive Content Consumption?
So far I have written a 15-minute talk for Church on my iPad, I am writing a novel on it, and I continually use it in place of a notepad and paper in meetings. I would hardly classify it as only for content consumption.
Although I must say that the content consumption is extraordinary and "magical". I was reading a book on it and actually found myself trying to grip the next page on the side of the device so I could turn the page. If Apple can make the book-reading experience so fluid as to give the "illusion" of actually reading a physical book, then yes, I call that "magical" -- even if Steve Jobs is over-using the term.
What's nice about the iPad is that you can actually carry it with you up to the podium at church or in a lecture hall to speak to an audience without it looking conspicuous, distracting, and out of place. Thumbing through my notes was more natural and silent than flipping papers and certainly I would not try the same with a laptop or netbook. This thing really is "revolutionary".
So far I have written a 15-minute talk for Church on my iPad, I am writing a novel on it, and I continually use it in place of a notepad and paper in meetings. I would hardly classify it as only for content consumption.
Although I must say that the content consumption is extraordinary and "magical".
I was reading a book on it and actually found myself trying to grip the next page on the side of the device so I could turn the page. If Apple can make the book-reading experience so fluid as to give the "illusion" of actually reading a physical book, then yes, I call that "magical" -- even if Steve Jobs is over-using the term.What's nice about the iPad is that you can actually carry it with you up to the podium at church or in a lecture hall to speak to an audience without it looking conspicuous, distracting, and out of place. Thumbing through my notes was more natural and silent than flipping papers and certainly I would not try the same with a laptop or netbook. This thing really is "revolutionary".
Wow, that is magic. I wonder how its mojo holds up when there is several females in a group.[/QUOTE]
To be honest, when some of her hotter friends are in the room, I'm not all that concerned with my iPad's mojo, or with TV. I'm just trying not to get busted for staring.
As for her other friends, I make sure I leave the iPad where they first start gathering, away from the TV. They notice the iPad right away, and always want to try it out. It's like having a newborn; the womenfolk ooh and aah over it.
Try it next time you want some peace and quiet, fellas. It works!
To be honest, when some of her hotter friends are in the room, I'm not all that concerned with my iPad's mojo, or with TV. I'm just trying not to get busted for staring.
As for her other friends, I make sure I leave the iPad where they first start gathering, away from the TV. They notice the iPad right away, and always want to try it out. It's like having a newborn; the womenfolk ooh and aah over it.
Try it next time you want some peace and quiet, fellas. It works!