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Over 500,000 iPads Sold, Apple Delays International Delivery until May

NebulaClash said:
Or they are part of the Microsoft astroturfing effort in some way. But this calebx guy is probably not, for the astroturfers try to make Microsoft look good, and this guy makes them look bad.
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I have nothing but contempt for Bill Gates and his infuriatingly lousy OS and want to try a MacBook Pro when I have enough saved (the 15", since the 13" isn't worth of carrying the "Pro" label) to test the waters. If I like it, maybe there's an iMac in my future. I sure love my iPod Touch and think the Zune has few gems in features but don't make it worth it buying despite of.

I can see myself getting an iPad over an HP Slate, yes. But that may have more to do w/ what Steve Jobs can do RIGHT than wrong (iPhone OS for one). So like Zune/iPod Touch, the gems make it worth buying over a competitor.

Yet it's too early for me to buy, since my iPod Touch does a lot of what I will/may do on an iPad. I'm not going to trip over my coffee table racing to be one of the 500,000 who bought one. I can wait to see if the competitors can sway me. But make no mistake about it-- I'm willing to hold Steve to the standards of (hu) man. ;)

500,000, good for the U.S.? I don't know. Perhaps (?)! But it's on the heels of the 1 week launch and buzz. I KNOW you wouldn't let Microsoft and Google (turning more evil by the year, like Microsoft and/or Apple already were/are).
 
It's amazing how people believe in everything they read

Ya sure, Apple is really doing this in stronger coin markets!? Actually, I as European believe more about iPad being so much criticized in these markets, that sell figures here just don't seem as happy for Apple as in the US!

iPad is being massacred in reviews all around Europe. Apple needs more marketing to sell the same hardware for the actual prices tag!
 
calebx said:
This new Microsoft Kin that targets 'tweens to 25 with its right mix of simpliciiy yet ticks all the right boxes for parents who don't want their teens being THAT out there on the Internet (iPhone). To me, it looks like a cheap LeapFrog-like toy and I have no personal need fo rit, but if it sells like gangbusters, I'll be back to rub your hypocritical noses in the pooh when you say: "It just shows you people have no common sense."
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Even Microsoft loyalists can't understand the point of those horrible things. Kids want what's cool. Apple gear is cool. iPhones and iPods. As usual.

Turtles (or "Kins") that take 15 minutes to update and look like crap . . . not so much.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/microsoft-kin-notifications-have-up-to-fifteen-minute-delay/
 
Apple typical marketing strategy! Create a need, makes the product rare so more and more people will like to get it...Like the iPhone at each release.
All this has been well thought about and intended to be this way.
 
*LTD* said:
But I thought everyone wanted Flash? Why is demand so high for a product that doesn't do Flash??

This must be eating away at Adobe like nothing else.
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Great logic, because 1 in 600 Americans purchase something, that means that everyone wants Flash.

The iPad is going to have terrible traction going forward. This isn't like an iPhone where people who are stuck in a 2-year contract and *can't* buy one at launch. It's selling at less than a $100 premium online, and a good portion of those could be foreign buyers who 1) will get a better deal paying in dollars as the pound/euro is stronger than our currency and 2) can't get it yet.
 
shipping delays

Have not seen any notes, but being in the electronics industry, we are starting to see some crazy leadtimes for components. Parts that had a four week leadtime early this year are now 20-26 weeks. These are common parts such as caps and IC chips. Maybe I can blame Apple for my leadtime problems.

Love by iPad, but hate the WiFi range.
 
a 16GB WIFI model is going for as little as £450-460 on eBay including next day delivery from within the UK - no import tax risk. That's not exorbitant is it ? Saying that, a few have gone in recent days for £100 more than that.
 
BigJimmyC said:
Just saying "No" doesn't invalidate my statement and rhetoric convinces nobody with any intelligence. I'm aware that the 300 000 included pre-orders. Hence putting quotes around "first day" sales. Regardless of your opinion, ipad sales have LOST momentum from last week. They sold 150 000 in the first 4 days after launch, but in the following 6 days they only sold 50 000. Therefore, the data show sales are slowing. I didn't say the ipad would fail. I said that since last week there has been less demand, and therefore they should have been able to predict any shortfall in supplies last week, when demand was higher than it is now. But they didn't want to admit to their developers that they were going to delay shipment by a month, because they wanted people to get all excited and start developing for a product that wasn't going to materialize for two months.
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If you reread the first post you will find that it says they sold 500,000 in the first week. Not total. That extra 50,000 happened in the next 2 days.
 
Hi,

Good for Apple. They seem to have a winner.

Bad for Apple. They can't seem to get the parts together fast enough.

I Voted neutral.

s.
 
Dang... I just returned my 64GB to Best Buy and was subjected to restocking fee of $105. I should have sold it internationally on eBay. I would have been happy to just get my full money back.
 
*LTD* said:
Even Microsoft loyalists can't understand the point of those horrible things. Kids want what's cool. Apple gear is cool. iPhones and iPods. As usual.

Turtles (or "Kins") that take 15 minutes to update and look like crap . . . not so much.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/microsoft-kin-notifications-have-up-to-fifteen-minute-delay/
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True. Well, said, my brother. The iPhone IS cool. It actually probably is THE coolest smartphone (you got your BlackBerry for business; Palm can't do anything right) ever made and teens sure do want the iPhone for many reasons. So I see a Kins being a failure unless it's a very naive, immature 11yo girl or strict parents who say "it's this or nothing".

And seeing the JooJoo video on their site, I can appreciate Apple's refined way of doing things (the bottom of the Joo is downright medieval!). Then again, Panasonic makes the ToughBook laptop for a reason and some may not be willing not to peek at the underside if it gets the job done.

Steve, put in a camera, a USB port and get the job done! I'll even give up flash to extend an olive branch. *does a reality check to make sure I was actually the one who said that*
 
SurfSpirit said:
Ya sure, Apple is really doing this in stronger coin markets!? Actually, I as European believe more about iPad being so much criticized in these markets, that sell figures here just don't seem as happy for Apple as in the US!

iPad is being massacred in reviews all around Europe. Apple needs more marketing to sell the same hardware for the actual prices tag!
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Bingo! Hence this so-called "shortage" that wasn't around at the developers conference last week, despite the fact that they'd already reached 90% of their current sales by then. They're just trying to manufacture demand after a lousy second week of sales.
 
odyssey924 said:
Dang... I just returned my 64GB to Best Buy and was subjected to restocking fee of $105. I should have sold it internationally on eBay. I would have been happy to just get my full money back.
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Hey, Steve, do you hear this ? You lousy thief and black-marketeer.
 
NebulaClash said:
Right, so compare it to the closest thing we have to compare it against. How many were sold last week?
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That's like comparing apples to oranges.

You cannot compare iPhone iPad sales either, just like you cannot compare sales of Microsoft Windows 7 to the sales of a computer.
 
Rodus said:
Great, thanks Apple for screwing over the rest of the world, as if we don't suffer enough with the inflated prices. Of course what they meant to say is "We are sorting out the wifi issues but don't want to admit it".
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Or they've not sorted out carrier deals yet.

re: your sig Rodus...

Daniel Eran Dilger - "Anyone who cheerleads for Flash is either deeply indebted to a third-rate art school, a stockholder of Adobe, or a delusional moron."
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Must... resist.... urge.... to... correct...

"Anyone who shamelessly fluffs Apple is either deeply indebted to a third-rate journalism course, a stockholder of Apple, a delusional moron, Daniel Eran Dilger or all of the above"

Sorry. Couldn't resist. :)
 
BigJimmyC said:
Bingo! Hence this so-called "shortage" that wasn't around at the developers conference last week, despite the fact that they'd already reached 90% of their current sales by then. They're just trying to manufacture demand after a lousy second week of sales.
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I see that you are ignoring the fact that second week sales weren't mentioned in the press release just first week.
 
Back2Bedlam said:
Up your's Apple, you had your chance to convince me to buy one, but if you're going to be so Pro American, and treat the rest of the world with contempt, you've lost my business.

Don't they realise that so much of there revenue is from us? That's why they spend so much on opening new shops.
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Contempt? You won't be missed.
 
albebaubles said:
Contempt? You won't be missed.
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many people are reconsidering the iPad. I'm now looking at the HP slate more than I was last week.


Hang on, regarding that 500,000 sold <-- wasn't that how many were delivered the distribution channels, thus not how many were sold? The figure doesn't take into account returns either, so it's not net sales, which imo, should be the only counted figure.
 
*LTD* said:
But I thought everyone wanted Flash? Why is demand so high for a product that doesn't do Flash??

This must be eating away at Adobe like nothing else.
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Yawn, Really really bad attempt at trolling here. You going to try to link every story to apple/adobe fiasco? Get over it..

Most people that want the Ipad would prefer that it did support it flash, but even without the support, they are going to get it.

Point of this story, international users just got very disappointed. Nothing to do with flash!
 
I'm a fair person (despite some different opinions) and compliment Apple on this part:

They got 500,000 people who KNEW this was Rev. 1 would be severely lacking on some features (it does) and would only get better a year from now (it will), just because Apple really, really knows what selected things they want to give the consumer, to which consumers are willing to accept being denied in order to get the other things (dangling the carrot in front of the nose of donkey like leaking software info that the iPod Touch has the ability to have iChat, but is purposely disabled).

It's not like the iPhone where nobody knew what to expect (and they sold a lot that first quarter!). People KNOW it's not a heck of a lot more than an obese iPod Touch and they still had people buy them.

That's the power of wrangling your sheep and too which I am jealous! ;) :D I'd sure love that power... if only for the C.E.O. money it brings me. :p
 
RetepNamenots said:
Unless you want to end up paying a hefty sum of import tax, none!
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he he he you make it sound like they actually check in heathrow what you bring it. I am yet to see someone getting searched, half there time there is noone there. Just walk through nothing to declare and your right.
 
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