This tells them nothing about how many were sold, only how many are being used on their clients websites.
That tells them how many were sold - at least a minimum. If 542,000 unique iPads have visited their clients' websites, then at least 542,000 iPads were sold (minus perhaps a few thousand on display in Apple Stores and Best Buy locations). The actual sales number must be higher.
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.
Apple didn't hype the iPad. There was one press conference, one Jobs interview, and one ad that hasn't run all that much. The press did it on its own - obviously based on their experience that Apple products are worth writing about.
As for 'crippled', that's absurd. In what way was it crippled? Lack of Flash, USB, serial ports, eSATA ports, etc is not 'crippled'. It's simply a design tradeoff. Apple is smart enough to realize that you don't improve a product simply by adding features. Too bad the rest of the industry never understood that.
Are they counting the ipad that 19 year old high school student bought and smashed?
If he accessed one of the web sites covered by this company, then it would be included.
Given that number, it would mean that Apple has earned $125,293,628 in revenues from the iPad. (And thats assuming every iPad sold was of the $499 flavor)
If we assume 2/5 of the iPads sold were 32GB iPads, Apple has made almost $146,000,000
iSuppli's numbers are useless. They don't include any overheads, R&D, support, warranty, marketing, etc costs. A more realistic way to figure it is that Apple averages about 40% margin on iPhones, so call it the same. 550,000 iPads sold at an average of $600 (including accessories) is $330 M. At 40% gross margins, that's about $132 M gross margin. Overheads are typically around 20%, so, Apple probably earned $66 M in the first few days.
thats a huge number. i dont know.
300,000 sold included wifi models shipped into the channel and the pre-orders from the previous 2 weeks (yes i know 3G not included).
to then say..500,000 have been activated as of today...that seems like a stretch from Saturday...no?
Not really. 300,000 were sold on Saturday. Assume that all of them were activated by today. Now, Apple has had 3 more delivery days (and 4 more in-store sale days) to sell an extra 250,000 units. Not at all unreasonable.
I saw and used one for the first time today. Surprised at how heavy it was. It's not very comfortable to hold in one hand and type with another. It's a big iPod touch. I have a feeling that after the novelty wears off there's going to be a lot of unused iPads sitting around in people's homes.
Funny that the people who actually own them and have used them disagree with them. So who should we believe- the people who own the product or some Apple-bashing troll?
If you worry about holding a 1.5 pound slate in one hand and typing with the other, just what is the alternative? A 6 pound laptop? A 2.5 pound netbook - which is far clumsier to hold? Seems that it's your expectations that are pretty unrealistic. Lots of people don't have any problem holding 2-3 pound books.
I'm rather concerned about the lack of inspiration and motivation from these devices.
Right. That's why the whole world is talking about how they'll revolutionize the industry.
You people are so delusional.. iPad will replace the computer market, desktop will be left in oblivion in less than a decade..
Who ever said that the iPad was going to replace the entire computer market? That's a silly strawman argument.
Never heard of such precise estimates... 520,000 is an estimate. 524,642 is a guess
Wrong. An estimate is a figure obtained by some type of methodology. You create a formula and then plug in the data and get an estimated result. There's no rule that an estimate needs to be rounded to any given number of significant figures (although the last few digits are obviously not likely to be very accurate).
Minus one.
I came to my sences.
Returned it the very next day.
I know I've posted that fact before in another thread but I feel it needs to be repeated until the rest follow my lead
Maybe you should repeat it until someone actually believes you. If that ever happens.
the whole point of raw is that you HAVE to convert... If you don't want to convert, then shoot jpg.
I don't want to convert raw files on my iPad - it'd be clunky, and there isn't enough memory on it anyway. However, it's a great portfolio viewer!, and that is worth the price right there.
I'm wondering if someone will come up with a way to put a wedding photo album in an app, so instead of delivering a client an album, you give them an iPad with their own custom "my wedding" app... which only costs about 2x an album anyway.
Exactly. The iPad is a media content VIEWER. It was never meant to be importing and Photoshopping multi-GB RAW files.
I like your idea (similar idea - Hyundai is going to be giving out an iPad with one of their high end cars - the owner's manual will be on the iPad). You COULD just put the photos onto the iPad and use Apple's software. A little clumsy, but my guess is that a bride who got her photos that way wouldn't mind that it's not quite as polished as what you'd like. Alternatively, go to Apple's developer forum and post a message with your idea to see if you can get someone interested.
Judging by how many people tried hard to make iPad look like a worthless piece of tech. I am sure soon will brag about the numbers.
I'm guessing they'll announce when they hit the first million (about April 15, probably). Keep in mind several factors:
1. Pre-orders have not all shipped. Some were showing delivery dates of April 10 or later. Numbers will drop off after that preliminary surge is over.
2. Preliminary estimates were that the number of 3G orders would be comparable to the number of WiFi orders. That means that Apple will likely sell something like 500,000 3G units in the first few days.
Put it all together and you're probably looking at 2 million by the end of April.
