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That is pretty disappointing actually. I would have thought they would sell out for April 3rd. Those numbers show that it is early adopters only and they aren't getting a halo effect from iPhone.
Link-bait to a bad website. They couldn't even get the information correct from the reputable sources they ripped off. It was 91k in six hours. Not all day.
Lot's of food for the Trolls on here, you thought they would have all they need on Engadget.
I mean I don't like Android phones yet I don't feel the urge to hang around on Android forums saying how crap I think it is, why do so many haters seem to be visiting this particular Mac Forum?
Strangely enough I think it's probably OK to be a Mac fanboy on a Mac forum!
NO, you cannot run 2 programs at once although I'm sure some backround tasks will still occur like email being received, but you can't look at your email and have another program running at the same time in different windows like you could with a netbook or a Mac.
I'm shocked no one in the mainstream media hasn't called out Steve Jobs on his "better than a Netbook" claim yet.
This is clearly not true at least in the sense of capabilities.
There are rumors that 4.0 OS will fix some of this, but who knows.
As it is now, the iPAD intrigues me, but I'm not biting.
I think this device should do more and it doesn't replace anything I currently own, so I'm waiting.
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
>Engadget
>Trolls
You do realize Engadget is a neutral tech blog and by definition it is less biased than this place right?
this must be a really sad day for you![]()
this must be a sad sad day for you..![]()
kernkraft is an angry young man who's mission in life is to see the iPad fail![]()
i think someone's jealous![]()
i'm laughing at all the iPad and Apple haters right now
i pre-ordered 2 iPads just to spite these apple-haters. i only really need 1, but i'm buying two just to annoy them![]()
Aside from the fact that your details don't matter to my metaphor, no, I own Porsches because I prefer my cars not to suck![]()
The real test is to see if these sales numbers hold up after all the early adopters have purchased. 91,000 in first 6 hours is good, but will they sell 100,000+ the second day and the day after that and the day after that...
Once you fill orders of people with a lot of disposable income and the people that will purchase anything with an Apple logo how will the sales hold up?
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That is pretty disappointing actually. I would have thought they would sell out for April 3rd. Those numbers show that it is early adopters only and they aren't getting a halo effect from iPhone.
They don't have to sell 100,000+ every day to be successful. I don't think we'll see any of the other tablets coming close to these initial numbers. I wonder if it's already the best selling tablet form factor device in history with only one day of pre-orders under its belt.
Any other company would kill for 91,000 sales in 6 hours. They don't have to sustain anything close to that rate to be a success. But I'm sure the detractors will act like it's somehow failing.
I'd expect a huge bump in sales the first few weeks once people can actually hold one in their hands.
They don't have to sell 100,000+ every day to be successful. I don't think we'll see any of the other tablets coming close to these initial numbers. I wonder if it's already the best selling tablet form factor device in history with only one day of pre-orders under its belt.
Any other company would kill for 91,000 sales in 6 hours. They don't have to sustain anything close to that rate to be a success. But I'm sure the detractors will act like it's somehow failing.
I'd expect a huge bump in sales the first few weeks once people can actually hold one in their hands.
Sales are going to die down after the first day I think we all know that, but what I meant is how much do they die down. Do they continue at a high pace or do they slow to a trickle. Only time will tell. I do expect the iPad to do okay, but I don't think it is going to sell in the same volume as the iPod or iPhone. That is just my opinion so if you don't agree with it that is fine.
I think we have quite a few rather wealthy people posting on here that don't have a clue how things are right now for the average middle class person. Budgets are tight for most of us now and that is why I think sales will die down after the "haves" have filled up on their iPads. This day and age most people need a computer and a phone so they almost consider those necessary expenses. People also buy a lot of iPods, especially Nano's, but the iPad is an additional device. It doesn't replace anything just adds to the pile.
I do expect the iPad to do okay, but I don't think it is going to sell in the same volume as the iPod or iPhone. That is just my opinion so if you don't agree with it that is fine.
Apple never really catered to that market...(the lower middle class market). Besides, I see alot of "have nots" going without other things and buying iphones that cost atleast $2000 over two years.
Aside from the fact that your details don't matter to my metaphor, no, I own Porsches because I prefer my cars not to suck![]()
It will be interesting to see what this will do to the whole e-book reader market.
Yes, that's probably true, it's the PHONE OPERATING SYSTEM that is the problem with this device, not the technology.
The technology seems incredible, the operating system seems lame and not worth the money at this point.
This thing is half-baked in my opinion. Maybe it will sell. I don't know.
But it's certainly not as revolutionary as the iPhone and I'm standing on the fence at this point as to whether I want to buy one and I went through holy hell to try to get an iPhone on Day 1, having to drive tons of miles in 2 different directions to 2 different locations, none of which were near me.
doesn't mean anything. everyone knows without multitasking this thing is going to be a failure.
Disappointing? iPad has not even come out yet, no one external from production has actually had one in his or her hands yet, and on the first day that one could order the device, it has already reached 15% of the total sales of a major competing device (Kindle) for all of 2009?Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16)
That is pretty disappointing actually. I would have thought they would sell out for April 3rd. Those numbers show that it is early adopters only and they aren't getting a halo effect from iPhone.
Agreed....I thought there would be a lot more than that sold...
Disappointing? iPad has not even come out yet, no one external from production has actually had one in his or her hands yet, and on the first day that one could order the device, it has already reached 15% of the total sales of a major competing device (Kindle) for all of 2009?
I agree with you though, the big picture looks great if out of a global market of billions possible, only 130,000 have been "sold" then there is a lot of room for phenomenal profitability.
For the detail oriented, I roundly took 90,000 orders plus 40,000 in-store reservations and compared them to Kindle's 750,000 units sold in 2009 number I googled. YMMV.