Apple Sells 300,000 iPads on First Day

The Wall Street Journal ^ | April 5, 2010 | Kerry Grace Benn

[SunkenCiv]

All it will take for Apple’s success to be termed a failure is for some later product (after Apple has broken the market segment wide open) to hype and then sell 300,001 units on the first day. ;’)

[AFreeBird]

And the whole world at one point, sailed the oceans on wooden ships powered by wind and sail. What’s your point?

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

So you would agree that Apple computers aren’t American made?

Well that depends on whether you agree that you can find an American made computer, doncha know ... LOL ...

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Maybe you would also agree that they have shown liberal bias in their iTunes store podcast selection?

LOL ... not according to the Podcasts I get... I don't know about you. But, since anyone can get a podcast on there, I don't see it as a problem.

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Maybe you would also agree that they are left-leaning in general, exemplified by putting Al Gore on their board?

Hey! They could put Donald Duck on their board and I would still know it's Steve Jobs that makes the difference there. That's one board that Steve Jobs runs.

I'll tell you one way to get rid of anyone on the board... have them try to tell Steve Jobs what to do! LOL ...

BUT, talking about who is on a board at a company... let me tell you one CEO that they ought to get rid of... try Steve Balmer at Microsoft, a stupider guy I haven't seen. He should be banned just from having too low of an IQ to be an American ... LOL ...

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, talking to Developers. LOL... with a "monkey" like that for a CEO, who needs fools...

Developers, Developers, Developers...
[a short YouTube clip of Ballmer "doing the monkey"... :-) ...]

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

Unfortunately, the browsers are battling it out over Ogg Theora and H.264. Why? Because H.264 is patent-encumbered, which would make it illegal in open-source browsers like Firefox. Of course, Apple is the main one pushing for H.264, since it would have the one-two punch of being hardware accelerated on its mobile platforms and getting Mozilla-based browsers out of the way, paving the way for Safari to take more marketshare.

I don't think you're going to find H.264 going anywhere, anytime soon, but right there on your desktop computer ... :-)

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC

H.264/AVC/MPEG-4 Part 10 (Advanced Video Coding) is a standard for video compression. The final drafting work on the first version of the standard was completed in May 2003.

H.264/AVC is the latest block-oriented motion-compensation-based codec standard developed by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), and it was the product of a partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT). The ITU-T H.264 standard and the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 AVC standard (formally, ISO/IEC 14496-10 - MPEG-4 Part 10, Advanced Video Coding) are jointly maintained so that they have identical technical content. H.264 is used in such applications as Blu-ray Disc, videos from YouTube and the iTunes Store, DVB broadcast, direct-broadcast satellite television service, cable television services, and real-time videoconferencing.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

The whole world is using Flash for cry out loud.

Not for long ... :-) They're already "jumping ship" ... at several places, because of Apple's moves.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks hennie pennie.

[PreciousLiberty]

“Some people like to be locked in to a limited platform, and others prefer freedom and having the platform trust the user.”

The Mac is less limiting than Windows, in the sense that I can run MacOS, POSIX and Windows software seamlessly in the same environment. MacOS and POSIX software runs natively. Windows requires a VM, but is isolated from the rest of the system so malware isn’t a concern.

Also don’t forget that the excellent Mac development tools are freely available instead of costing hundreds of dollars.

There’s a ton of value with Mac that’s often overlookedk, including the great bundled applications that have no Windows equivalent.

BTW I have no idea what you meant about the platform “trusting” the user.

[PreciousLiberty]

"Apple does it's thing, but they weren't the first to make a smartphone, mp3 player, tablet computer etc."

The amusing thing about your post is that Apple was the first to do each of those well enough for mass market acceptance. Further, in each category Apple is recognized to have innovated creatively and successfully.

Say what you want, but Apple's been more successful than every other large computer and electronics company over the last few years.

Check out these quotes:

Apple and Walmart have been playing stock market tag over the past few weeks to see which company's market capitalization would be higher. At the time of this writing, Apple's market capitalization of $213.98 billion exceeds Walmart's market cap of $211.14 billion -- a difference of $2.84 billion. Currently, Microsoft and Exxon are the only US companies whose market caps exceed Apple's, with Microsoft at $255.75 billion and Exxon at $319.21 billion.

...and...

Some firms are predicting that Apple will eventually catch up to or surpass Microsoft's market cap. While there's currently a $41.77 billion dollar difference between the two companies' market caps, that's not a completely insurmountable gap. Get a load of this batch of perspective: ten years ago, Microsoft was worth in excess of $586 billion, while Apple was worth a relatively paltry $17 billion. In the same amount of time it took for Microsoft to lose almost $330 billion in worth, Apple's market cap rose by nearly $200 billion. No wonder Fortune named Steve Jobs "CEO of the Decade."

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[ctdonath2]

Apple makes money off hardware. They make software only to sell more hardware.

[ctdonath2]

Great reasoning, but forgets that the iPad needs another computer for daily maintenance (syncing, updates, archiving, ...). It’s not meant to replace a computer.

[ctdonath2]

Those complaining of price forget an iPhone, bought outright, costs around $600.

[ctdonath2]

Hulu sees that “problem” as big enough that they (and others) are building a no-Flash version of their site.
That’s how highly they think of the iPad.
That’s really high.

[Thermalseeker]

Ummmm..., what "excuse" did you want to use for the iPhone, then? LOL ...

Actually, I erred in my previous statement. Unemployment compensation is up to ninety nine weeks now......and that is nothing to laugh about unless you are a Socialist. 'Course you might find that funny, too......

[ctdonath2]

Yeah. Sure you can buy a cheaper notebook ... but then you’d have to use it!

[Thermalseeker]

I hate to hear about small businesses shuttering. It's a shame, and I think it's going to just keep on going...

I can't see any reason why we would see any economic recovery anytime soon.

The really sad part about the BBQ place I spoke of is it's a husband/wife operation. After about 10 years of renting a location that was pretty much a dump they had recently built a new building in a new location. They really did it up nice. They spent a lot of time and money decorating the place with old farm implements, signs and other memorabilia. They poured everything they had into it. These are two very hard working people. Many times I've driven past at 4:00AM and they were already there working. Other times I've driven past at or after midnight and they were there working. Now, it appears everything is lost, all so Obamalamadingdong can "spread the wealth". Breaks my heart.

[Fresh Wind]

My parents have an iMac that has been nothing but trouble since they bought it.

Macs never break. That's why a local computer fix-it shop just put a big sign out front that says "We Fix Macs"!

[aruanan]

My parents have an iMac that has been nothing but trouble since they bought it.

Macs never break. That's why a local computer fix-it shop just put a big sign out front that says "We Fix Macs"!

It's relative. Macs have significantly fewer and significantly less severe difficulties than Windows-based computers. I've been in a university laboratory environment for 16 years and have observed both platforms. The massive IT department the university has is not massive because there are more Windows-based PCs than Macs but because those PCs have more problems, more often, that require more non-user work to resolve. In my current lab we have 5 Dells to run Hitachi DNA sequencers because ABI wrote their software for that platform. For everything else we use Mac and some of them go back as far as the blue G3. The newest, an Intel iMac, we use as a server. We have never had to call in someone for software weirdness. We have sent off a couple to have power supplies replaced over the years, but that's it. The Dells, though, HA HA HA HA HA HA.

[PreciousLiberty]

“Man it’s like I’m reading the DU in this thread. Where did anyone suggest they sell it for 1 cent?”

It’s called “reductio ad absurdum”, to make a point. Sorry if it went over your head.

Really your position is the same as someone who says “Mercedes aren’t worth the money”. Clearly they are to some folk, or Mercedes would go out of business. Further, if Mercedes didn’t charge what they do, their cars wouldn’t have the style, engineering excellence, and performance that they do. All that R&D is expensive. Ultimately, some of the innovations even trickle down to the Fords, Chevys, Hyundais and Kias of the world.

I’m sure you see the parallel with Apple.

[AFreeBird]

Daily syncs? Are you nuts? I think I’vie synced my iPhone about five times since I got it last year. And most of those have been for OS upgrades. I don’t see that sync rate changing too much with the iPad.

[LonePalm]

The real question about the iPad is 'Will it Blend?'.

'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)