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Apple Announces Two Million iPads Sold

For me what makes the iPad a winner is the interface - it (and the iPhone) is really the first new method of doing things since the original GUI and mouse back in '84.

You know the interface has made it when you witness a young girl on a plane trying to 'flick' the LCD screen in the headrest to browse through the list of movies and being thoroughly confused that it wasn't working.

Tech geeks obsessing about the lack of a USB port, or the fact that their video card can process so many more Gigatexel's etc. are missing the point.

It's the interface stupid.
 
Jee Wiz give it a break

When crab-apples are complaining about all aspects of the iPad, or anything Apple they sound like a bunch of divorced women sitting around a table bitching about their X husbands. Go ahead and complain if this makes you feel better, the rest of us just don't care. :rolleyes:
 
swimming pool...

MacCurry said:
Great news. I was told that iPad was nothing more than a big iPhone, to which I replied that a swimming pool is nothing more than a big bath tub!

Let see what the Android has to offer, but they don't have the apps.
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FUNNIEST POST IVE READ ON MAC RUMORS YET...

I liked my iPad so much I gave it to my 80 year old mother for her first computer and she loves it...

stay the course Apple...
 
neiltc13 said:
Things it doesn't have like Flash, USB and multitasking could be very easily added, ...
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The iPad OS already multitasks (Mail, etc.), more is on the way with the next OS update. I use the Camera Connection kit to connect my iPad to my USB microphone and SD memory cards. I don't notice any thing missing about running Flash web sites (as I run FlashBlock on my MacBook). But you can view Flash web sites on an iPad using an RDP or VNC remote viewer, or an app such as CloudBrowse.
 
anotherarunan said:
but for the casual web surfer who wants to receive their emails, read books, check out a few games its amazing and it looks the part too.
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hate to break it to you but the market of people that do just that on a computer is greatly higher than the type of people complaining about flash, USB ports, and the amount of ram. They don't know what flash is. If a site dosent work on the device they stop going to it and move on.
 
darbus69 said:
FUNNIEST POST IVE READ ON MAC RUMORS YET...

I liked my iPad so much I gave it to my 80 year old mother for her first computer and she loves it...

stay the course Apple...
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I am seriously considering this for my 85 year old mother for her first computer, she doesn't want a computer and this would really let her stay focused on being in touch with her grandkids.
 
BCullen said:
That is awesome! I hope that the android comes out with a tablet and no one buys it! That would make my year!;)
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It's always entertaining to go back to the archives and look all those comments "Fail" this and "Fail" that - usually accompanied by a bunch of technology gaps in the product.

The 2 Million iPad shows, shows you that to be "Success"-ful, it's not solely about technology. You don't need a great product, you need one that's 'good enough' and a superior marketing, execution/delivery team and *timing*. These other parts are just as important as the technology.


With android-based tablets are great but these still need these other parts to make a successful product.

P.
 
parapup said:
What is wrong with people? I know a few who bought the Wi-Fi model just because they could not wait for 3G to ship and then bought the 3G model. Scary - tomorrow Apple will ship a shiny paper weight in the name of simplicity and a promise to ship a 3G paperweight in 3 months and 6-8M people will still end up buying it :D
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So what exactly is wrong with that, anyway?

I keep hearing people make this criticism of Apple's customers and I can't figure out what would be so horribly wrong if it were true (although I don't think it is, in general.) I know people who buy tech gadgets just because they love having the latest and greatest and even openly admit that their primary motivation is that they love packing around a shiny new tech toy. But you know what's funny about those people? They're not just Apple customers. The people I know who are like that buy all kinds of gadgets from many companies.

I once worked with a woman who described her gadget buying habits as an "addiction". She admitted that she had no real use for half the things she bought but she loved doing it anyway. She was happy and well-adjusted and probably one of the most productive people I've ever worked with.

Still, let's assume it's just Apple customers and just Apple products that inspire that kind of thing. I have to ask you: what would be so wrong with that anyway? Who would they be hurting if they were wasting their cash that way? It's their business, not yours. So why would you try to make someone feel bad about it?

I don't view that as a bad thing at all. In fact, we call those people "early adopters" and they tend to bring the prices down for us later, so you could actually argue that they're doing us all a big favor.
 
lose one gain one,

Banyan Bruce said:
Saw and played with my first iPad yesterday...underwhelmed I'm afraid, but I suppose that you'd need more than 15-20 minutes playing with it to determine what it offers over an iPhone or Touch.
I thought the ebooks would be tempting but not at those silly prices. :eek:
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And then there are people like my 60 year old sister that came over to visit - bed time came, I gave her the iPad as I went to bed and from battery loss calculations she used it for 3 hours after I went to bed. Next morning she says "I bet they have an iPad for me at the Apple store" and she got her own. In the first 2 days she read 3 ebooks - she had tapered off because print had gotten too small in paperbacks - not any more.

The biggest difference that really sells the device is the battery life. Don't compare it to at Touch, or a Laptop, this is a electronic magazine that you can use all day long and not even think about the battery.

E-Books? There's an app that gives you access to over 23,000 free books,
Amazon, iBooks, and Barnes and Noble have entire lists of 'best seller' free books to download.

As to the loss of 'Flash' for things like Farmville I again just look at my sister who was a big player of online flash games - now she just plays iPad and iPhone games. I mean they are just games, can't play one they just find another.

And its that way with most things - people will fill all the time they have to use the iPad with what's possible - Hulu, etc want iPad users to be filling their time using their products they will come around or be replaced by someone else.

Cheap, nigh indestructible (I mean really who of us wasn't wondering if our new purchase was just one drop away from junk when we got it), care free, and gives me more access to more things CONVENIENTLY than any computer or laptop I've ever had before.

If the iPad saturates the market before the other entries arrive they are going to have a difficult time - people won't want to change once they have settled in. Now excuse me I think I'll go to the local coffee shop, read the news, listen to a few podcasts and pick up on the Netflix movie I am watching, all while slouched in one of the big comfy overstuffed chairs.
 
Yeah... I guess all that smack about it being a big iPod didn't hold water... unless people wanted a normal-sized iPod and a super-sized one:)

I didn't want one when I saw it introduced for the first time by Jobs. Then I held one in my hands and started using it. I'm reading more, I'm not having to lug my MBP around, I'm using it to play games (which are cheaper than PS3 games BTW), and I'm finding that for the bang for buck, you can't really beat this thing.
 
peterdevries said:
You are stupid. Foxconn produces electronics for many companies including Dell and HP. It's not Apple that is enabling these practices, but the Chinese government. Why else do you think a Taiwanese company builds their main factory in China?
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True, but Apple have the choice to relocate their production to the US. Great for the economy, lots of extra jobs, etc. Because they have over 40 billion US$ in the bank, currently doing nothing as the tale goes, they even could afford it without have to revert to a price increase. Their profit margin as it stands is way above of that of the 'competition', which they don't have because they've created their own ecosystem. They fish in a different pond so to speak. If this is a viable alternative can only be assessed by AAPL themselves. I only buy their products.
 
Here is the bottom line. Apple is not going to do anything that reduces profit. This means moving production anywhere more expensive than China. It's not going to happen. Maybe they can find cheaper in India?

Apple is like any other company, enough profit is never enough. it's always more is better. If Apple could find a cheaper alternative, they would find it. But surely, they are not going to take a 25% in profit by paying more for the same labor.
 
ouimetnick said:
This "magic" is getting really old. I never looked it as magical even when it was announced. Just a larger more capable iPod touch that was more responsive. Thats it.
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This "pc revolution" is getting really old. I never looked at it as a revolution even when the mac was announced. Just a larger more capable abacus that was more responsive. Thats it.

See what I did there?
 
Blorzoga said:
Seriously, is the lack of flash really that big of a deal? So you can't see some videos in a particular website. Big deal. Any time that has happened to me, I just got to YouTube and invariably i can find the video in about two seconds. Not having flash is such a non-issue. It seems to be more of a rallying cry for all the apple haters out there.
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No it is an honest complaint that fanboys will dismiss because Jobs told them they didn't need flash. I am doing scuba training and the online portion of the class does not work on the big ipod touch. I am also planning a trip to Hawaii and plenty of those sites use flash and are useless because Jobs won't allow a user to decide what to do with a device.
 
Know What's Ridiculous?

The fact that people bother to come to an Apple website to invent reasons why Apple customers shouldn't buy an Apple product and why the product is so wrong for them. I wanted an eReader, it was either iPad or Kindle DX...I chose iPad because it can do much more than the Kindle DX.

Regardless of what anyone says, I'm happy with my purchase. Anyone who wants to make up a reason to make me dislike it has just made themselves into a good laugh for me. I lay in bed and read and don't have to store books anymore. I take notes on it at work and don't have to track down a pen and pad and then keep up with it. If you don't want one, don't buy one. Otherwise, you can continue to falsify reasons why the rest of us shouldn't want one and we'll all just continue to prove you wrong with every purchase made :)

If you haven't learned by now that most of what Apple sells is truly an awesome user experience and that because they make such solid products that people will flock to them, then I have a bridge to sell you.
 
So the rate of sales go by 250k units a week now?


3rd April(US launch) 300k
April(first week) 450k
3G coming out
April(End of the month) 1m
28th May(International launch) 2m

June (?)

July(9 other countries) another million bump

Fall OS4 (another bump up in sales)

10 millions by the end of the year?
 
Mirice said:
I am also planning a trip to Hawaii and plenty of those sites use flash and are useless because Jobs won't allow a user to decide what to do with a device.
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This has got to be one of the best, most "special" comments so far!
You should totally email Jobbs and complain about how lack of flash is impeding on your Hawaii trip and how it's just not fair and stuff.

I'm not completely sure, but you might be able to find information on Hawaii that doesn't require flash.
 
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