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Apple Estimated to Have Taken 50,000 iPad Orders in First Two Hours
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Wow, 91,000. I can't wait to see what happens to Apple's stock price on Monday. It's already through the roof.
You can say that with any product not just Apple's. So please stop it. I know what you're doing and it is in really bad taste.
Introducing hater-hating.
It's kind of persecuting chauvinists and setting them on fire. Except that in this occasion, he/she expressed a personal opinion that might be not against Apple at all but to a device that he doesn't believe in; and you sent him/her away?!
What kind of twisted morale is that?
I'm sorry, but I've never had a Kia and I would never buy one. Which Ferrari do you mean? I don't think that Kia sells anything that is as much as half as powerful as the weakest Ferrari. You don't know much about Ferraris, do you?!
But if I may get anal about this, the iPad is more like a scooter or a motorbike, whereas netbooks might represent small cars. The parallel with the different OS makes this idea even more suitable than this stupid BMW/Ferrari argument which, even with MacBook Pros, is false. I've had 3 BMWs altogether and I can tell you that they had BMW parts. MacBook Pros have parts that you may find in a Nissan, sorry, Toshiba.
Feel free to point to me where he actually says that. I have no problem if you find that, I'm not looking to prove you wrong but during the keynote I don't remember Jobs saying that, I remember him saying that "Netbooks aren't better at anything".
I think a lot of dismay is about the current state of the iPad. The lack of features and the price. The hype did ruin it for a lot of hard core fans. Not for me - I was never one. I just keep buying Apple products. But I miss this one.
That's the point. Many feel that it's half-baked; and in its design, too much thought went into revenue-generating and not a lot into usability.
I will be laughing at you for carrying this big piece of glass around wondering what to do with it. Oh, wait you can pay for the 600,000 apps that Apple says you can have and they do nothing.
this is not an example of honest disagreement and useful debate.
then you truly don't understand what the iPad is. keep using your netbook.
this must be a really sad day for you
I don't think so. Revision B will be introduced next year beginning of April, possibly with a camera.
A price reduction before that time is totally out of the question. It is clear that Apple is selling them like hotcakes now, so why lower the price? The only thing that could possible happen would be a price reduction of certain models that are currently not being picked up.. I wonder what the distribution of orders across the different models is now.
Apparently, you've never owned a Ferrari. They don't break down every day and are generally trouble free. Also, the typical Ferrari is much more powerful than any KIA. Just my $.02 worth
wow -- I figured that if Apple averaged $650 per sale, 50K in two hours is $32.5M!! Unreal.
Personally, I contributed $829 to the Cause! Yeah, I sprung for the big boy!
Yea, Apple!
Personally, I contributed $829 to the Cause! Yeah, I sprung for the big boy!
Yea, Apple!
They are probably still working out deals with UK publishers. This needs to be done country by country, so it's a time-consuming process.
You can get e-books from other sources (Amazon, B&N and whatever) and import these in the iBooks application. There is no reason why you wouldn't be able to read e-books on an iPad without the iBooks store in your country.
kernkraft is an angry young man who's mission in life is to see the iPad fail
He is in for a BIG, BIG disappointment then...hopefully he doesn't live in a high building where he is able to jump out of a window.
It's absolutely amazing how clueless these trolls are, repeating again and again the same mistakes when demanding that Apple build a device with all features crammed in. No wonder they continue to quote Windows-fanboy nonsense such as Enderle's articles.
MS IS DEAD. AND SO IS DELL.
RE: "Originally Posted by HyperZboy
The iPAD is nowhere near as powerful as a Netbook though!"
But Steve Jobs specifically criticized NETBOOKS in his keynote address! LOL
Therein lies the problem and why I'm waiting for Revision B or C of this device.
And furthermore, the iPAD doesn't replace anything I already own.
Yes, it's cool, I'd like to play with one, but after my geeky giddiness is over, what is it good for?
It doesn't surf the web correctly.
It doesn't act like a netbook, can't run 2 programs at the same time.
It doesn't have a camera.
The iPAD is nowhere near as powerful as a Netbook though!"
I know!
But Steve Jobs specifically criticized NETBOOKS in his keynote address! LOL
Therein lies the problem and why I'm waiting for Revision B or C of this device.
And furthermore, the iPAD doesn't replace anything I already own.
Yes, it's cool, I'd like to play with one, but after my geeky giddiness is over, what is it good for?
It doesn't surf the web correctly.
It doesn't act like a netbook, can't run 2 programs at the same time.
It doesn't have a camera.
91,000 sold in first 6 hours
Washington Post reporting that Apple sold 91K of the iPad in the first 6 hours of sales yesterday; does not count the reservations for store pickup.
This thing is a massive fail. Ha! LOL
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR2010031203974.html?hpid=sec-tech
Washington Post reporting that Apple sold 91K of the iPad in the first 6 hours of sales yesterday; does not count the reservations for store pickup.
This thing is a massive fail. Ha! LOL
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR2010031203974.html?hpid=sec-tech