...or FedEx brings mine to me on launch day and I don't have to spend time waiting in any line. Some people want it as soon as possible. Apparently a lot of them do.
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Apple Estimated to Have Taken 50,000 iPad Orders in First Two Hours
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...or FedEx brings mine to me on launch day and I don't have to spend time waiting in any line. Some people want it as soon as possible. Apparently a lot of them do.
I came this -><- close to pulling the trigger on one with a keyboard dock...
... but then woke up and realized I really want to see if they put out a model with a camera in the next few months.
... but then woke up and realized I really want to see if they put out a model with a camera in the next few months.
20,000 is not a lot. Although I find it surprising that the iPad had 20K in per orders. I'm shocked there are 20,000 people that would want to buy a really large iPod Touch.
Had the iPad been puilt up as a computer and not an extended iPod, I could see 500,000 selling on per order.
Had the iPad been puilt up as a computer and not an extended iPod, I could see 500,000 selling on per order.
didnt you see what happened to iPhone 3GS? It took nearly 3 weeks for supply to match demand and that was a third generation product and that was for a product that had pre-orders. Even then, I had to wait in line 3 weeks out just to get one.
iPad is brand new, lines will be huge, I bet if you dont pre-order, you will have to wait weeks to be able to know for sure that an apple store has one by time its your turn to order.
This does not include the people reserving one either. Considering most of the very first buyers are fanboys, I'd guess many of them plan to go pick them up in store. I'd guess about twice this many have been spoken for.
It's not 20,000. It's 20,000 per hour. I'm sure people are still pre-ordering it.
What?! thats 1/20th of a Million in 2 HOURS! That is amazing! ESPECIALLY considering how "lame" and "giant of an iphone" it is. I bought one in the first 2 hours.
Case and point... and I read this after I posted...
All very valid points, yet I preordered at 8:31am ET today. Why? Symbolic. When I look back ten years from now and realize today was the day the new era in computing began, it will feel nice to know that I was there on day one.
I bought my first iPod in December 2001, so I was a couple of months late on that other milestone product. For the iPad, and the coming world of multitouch, handheld computing (aka Star Trek universe), I'm there on day one just on principle.
Yes, I know, I'll want version 2 even more, but if I get version 2 (or wait until version 3), I'll just pass this version 1 on to a relative as a gift. Or maybe I'll add it to my personal museum of tech. My first iPod is in that museum, and yes, it still works almost ten years later.
Had the iPad been built as you describe, it's price point would be a lot higher. iPad hardware + desktop OS = battery and performance fail.
Spreadsheets? That's clearly a gimmick feature. Maybe if you're doing inventory for your church bake-sale?
This thing is good for surfing the web at the breakfast table... doing anything else on it looks PAINFUL. Most gimmicky product ever.
- listen to music? With such a giant device? What's the point? Am I gonna carry backpack when I could put an ipod in my pocket?
- Watch movies? Am i gonna have to hold the damn thing for 2 hours? Or do I have to carry yet more stuff in the form of a stand?
- Create documents? With a virtual keyboard? How frustrating is that?
- Read books? Gonna need eye-drops after using that backlit screen
- Do spreadsheets? Very basic toy feature looks increadbly frustrating to use from the pictures
- Email? can do it from any cellpone
- Games? I'll give it that only because i know nothing about gaming
- Stuff? What stuff?
Sometimes people are just attracted to shiny new stuff like moths to a lightbulb
This is what I mean. I am not trying to start a debate.. What other company can sell something with a base price of $499 that is more than 2 weeks out at a rate of 50,000 an hour?
At least half of those orders were placed by journalists trying to extrapolate the number of orders that had been submitted this morning and were later canceled
50,000 iPad Orders in First Two Hours
Sounds kind of low to me. Unless a lot of people (like me!) reserved for pick-up in one of the stores, I would expect a lot more orders than tnat!
Sounds kind of low to me. Unless a lot of people (like me!) reserved for pick-up in one of the stores, I would expect a lot more orders than tnat!
I have this sneaky suspicion that the dashiel was being ironic...
But maybe I'm just too kind and in actual fact they do think a rate of 50000 an hour of pre-orders is unimpressive.
I KNOW! I KNOW! RIGHT??
Good GOD, this thing is just crazy. There are "apps" from an app store. Absolutely insane. I mean, why would ANYONE want to hold a computer while it isn't running 5 things at once?
$500 for something that does keynote, spreadsheets, documents, notes, apps, music, video... do I have to go on?? It's much easier to have a tiny little netbook for $300 so I can sit down and render CGI like all real people do these days.
...oh wait, what's this? I forgot to turn it off.
/sarcasm
There.
I just ordered two 3G models - one for me and one for my wife. Looking forward to late April. It's too bad they didn't come out a little sooner as we're taking our family to Maui on the 3rd and it would be so nice to have on the plane.
I honestly can't seem running Snow Leopard on a tablet. As far as multitasking. It all depends on what you need. I can't do much more than 1 thing at a time on my netbook. This will be about the same, except unlike my netbook it will be
1. Fast
2. Instant On
3. Have some cool games and actually be designed for it.
4. NOT Windows 7
I think that is the best line to describe a lot of apple fanboys.
Apple gets a lot of sales for no other reason that it is a shiny new toy. Honestly the pre order numbers to be are over all worthless in the first 2 hours because it is just fan boys. The number I really want to see if after how is it selling in after it has been out on the street for 3-4 months. That is what tells me how good it really is. It far enough way from the fan boys to get a better picture of how it is doing.