iPad Sales Estimated to Have Already Surpassed 500,000

[ShiftyPig]

I've seen one and its owners were unimpressed.

 

[The General]

I think people are forgeting to take into account the tens of thousands of iPads purchased by people to either export to non-us countries or to sell on eBay to foreign people. Those iPads are still brand new and unopened on there way to their new owners.

okay, 500,500 ipads sold.

 

[dgree03]

It's an Apple device that people love right out of the gate. It's typical Apple fare. I think that's kinda your first clue.

LMAO... Describe "typical."

I can think of 2 products that apple produces that has INITIAL "hype fever"

Iphone and Ipad...

Apple is the best advertising company in the world... I admire them for that... but not for their crippled Iphone & Ipad.

 

[Stella]

The future is touch based. Might as well learn how now with the iPad and begin to make the transition away from hardware keyboards and mice. Children today will learn touch, and by the time they are adults it will be a touch world except for aging PCs in the business world occupying the same outdated (but still needed) space now occupied by mainframes.

By that time they'll be Haptic feedback to the user. The problem with touch today is that there is no response to the user having pressed the screen, as per physical keyboards. This makes Touch screens more difficult to use for the majority.

 

[Bill&Rose]

Aw hell just make up the numbers as you go.

That is exactly what is being done.

What a joke.

 

[*LTD*]

LMAO... Describe "typical."

I can think of 2 products that apple produces that has INITIAL "hype fever"

Iphone and Ipad...

Apple is the best advertising company in the world... I admire them for that... but not for their crippled Iphone & Ipad.

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...in_q1_2010_users_stay_in_apple_ecosystem.html

Some cripple.

 

[hugodrax]

500,000 people with money burning a hole in their pockets who will be left in the dust very very shortly, knowing Apple.

How so? I can sell covered calls,short puts from the bungalow at the beach with the current model?

Todays model will let me do what I need now once the 3G model is in my hands.

 

[BruiserBear]

500,000 people with money burning a hole in their pockets who will be left in the dust very very shortly, knowing Apple.

Could you name me a product where Apple left people in the dust before?

Glad I decided to wait after hearing about all the wi-fi issues along.

500,000 beta testers imho.

Whatever you need to tell yourself man. The people experiencing problems with the wifi is a small percentage of the total owners, and even those people will have all those problems fixed with the first firmware update I'm sure.

Most of us haven't had a single problem with the wifi, and I don't even use an Apple router.

 

[/dev/toaster]

...and I still haven't seen a single iPad around campus at GMU.

I have seen quite a few of them so far in San Francisco.

 

[hugodrax]

The movie Idiocracy did predict a touch computing future.

 

[The General]

By that time they'll be Haptic feedback to the user. The problem with touch today is that there is no response to the user having pressed the screen, as per physical keyboards. This makes Touch screens more difficult to use for the majority.

there are tens of millions of iphone and ipod touch users that are typing just fine on their touch screens.

im the kind of person that buys keyboards with mechanical switches because i like the feedback of physical keyboards so much. i tossed my apple aluminum keyboard in favor of a das keyboard model s professional.

i can type surprisingly well on the ipad keyboard. http://twitter.com/tedroddy/status/11613353864

i feel like Data on star trek the next generation. i dont think tactile feedback is as important as i thought it was. the ipad changed my mind.

 

[rstansby]

My guess:

750,000 sold, including online backorders.

524,262 actually in the hands users.

 

[NebulaClash]

By that time they'll be Haptic feedback to the user. The problem with touch today is that there is no response to the user having pressed the screen, as per physical keyboards. This makes Touch screens more difficult to use for the majority.

Totally agree, the touch screens we'll use 15 years from now will make today's screens look bad. Nevertheless they are what we have now, and the training we'll build up today will help us adapt to the future.

15 years from now there will still be people who are stuck on physical keyboards and will have no desire to use touch. We'll call such folks "old."

 

[Eidorian]

The movie Idiocracy did predict a touch computing future.

Get out of my head.

 

[/dev/toaster]

I wonder how many PC tablets from all manufacturers have been sold to date. Apple may exceed that number soon.

Knowing how badly PC tablet sales have been, they might have beaten that number already

 

[MorphingDragon]

The movie Idiocracy did predict a touch computing future.

I have to watch that movie now!

 

[Docrjm]

Apparently, estimates are like arseholes now. Everyone has one.

Not quite technically correct. Some are born without one and occasionally some have them surgically removed(usually for ca).
Just thought that I would add that minor correction.

 

[Stella]

there are tens of millions of iphone and ipod touch users that are typing just fine on their touch screens.

im the kind of person that buys keyboards with mechanical switches because i like the feedback of physical keyboards so much. i tossed my apple aluminum keyboard in favor of a das keyboard model s professional.

i can type surprisingly well on the ipad keyboard. http://twitter.com/tedroddy/status/11613353864

i feel like Data on star trek the next generation. i dont think tactile feedback is as important as i thought it was. the ipad changed my mind.

Just curious - can you touch type?

 

[M87]

They'll probably hit 1 million before the 3G ships.

 

[rstansby]

Advertising firm Chitika earlier this week rolled out a running tally

I am embarrassed to admit that watching that tally increase makes me want an iPad even more.

Must....resist....urge....to....buy.....rev.....A

 

[gehrbox]

Most of us haven't had a single problem with the wifi, and I don't even use an Apple router.

Ditto. I've had no wifi issues on my iPad.

 

[iDisk]

Where is my 3G iPad already! Come on Apple, pick the damn ball up and lets get moving!

Not to worry.

 

[WestonHarvey1]

i feel like Data on star trek the next generation. i dont think tactile feedback is as important as i thought it was. the ipad changed my mind.

Do you feel 100 WPM is a realistic possibility on the iPad's on screen keyboard?

 

[dgree03]

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...in_q1_2010_users_stay_in_apple_ecosystem.html

Some cripple.

Again, just in case you didnt read my last 2 post...

SALES to no denote FUNCTIONALITY AND USABLITY... get it?

Again, apple is the best advertising company in the world.. hands down... Iphone was passed up last year in function and design by HTC, Samsung, Sony, Nokia... Ipad will see the same fate... but sooner

(Note for the reading impaired: What I said above has no barring on apple mobile products selling like hotcakes)

 

[gnasher729]

I wonder how many PC tablets from all manufacturers have been sold to date. Apple may exceed that number soon.

A quick web search found an article by Gartner which estimates total tablet sales 2010 including iPads would be 10.5 million.

What Shiffler called traditional tablets -- such as those used in medical, sales and delivery applications -- will account for just 2.5 million of the 10.5 million tablet total for the year. "Tablets have languished. They found a niche in certain areas, but they have really never taken off," noted Shiffler.

So 8 million iPads, 2.5 million other tablets. That would be impressive. Personally I am very curious how netbook sales will develop over 2010 and 2011.