Let them fix this first. After all, they have been trying for 30 years, and still can't get anywhere:
Posted on 04/05/2010 6:44:39 AM PDT by myknowledge
Apple Inc. said Monday it sold more than 300,000 iPads in the U.S., including preorders, on the first day the device was available.
The company didn't give a precise figure, but the tally was below the estimates of some analysts.
Buyers flocked to stores starting Saturday after weeks of publicity about the tablet-style computer.
Apple hadn't offered iPad sales forecasts, but over the weekend, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster more than doubled his initial first-day sales estimate to between 600,000 and 700,000 units, including preorders, based on longer-than-expected lines at stores and high expectations for online preorders. He had also lifted his 2010 forecast to 5.5 million units from 2.8 million.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Is that a joke?
Windows 7 did that in preorders in the UK alone, before the product was even launched, not to mention the US and other countries. It even oustold Harry Potter.
“Amazon: Windows 7 is ‘the biggest pre-order product of all time’
Windows 7 has beaten boy wizard Harry Potter to become the biggest pre-order product of all time in the UK, says Amazon.
The UK arm of the retail behemoth adds that the new operating system sold more copies in the first eight hours of its release in July than Vista did in its entire pre-order period. The new OS launches officially tomorrow (October 22).
“The launch of Windows 7 has superseded everyone’s expectations, storming ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the biggest grossing pre-order product of all-time at Amazon.co.uk, and demand is still going strong,” says Brian McBride, Amazon UK MD.”
http://www.tgdaily.com/software-features/44377-amazon-windows-7-is-the-biggest-pre-order-product-of-all-time
Chortle!
That's why it has a measly 3,000 apps versus a staggering 1 million apps for Windows 7 already which happened after just 2 months on the market.
Lemme know if ipad even manages to get even half a million apps after 2 years will ya?
It's amazing for Wndows 7 yeah, not so amazing for ifemine- hygiene-product. Windows 7 pre-oders alone blew Harry Porter sales out of the water. That's what I'm talking about. It makes your puny ipad sales like like a sick puppy don't it?.
300,000 ipads sold? Are you kidding me?
THIS is REAL sales:
Microsoft: 90 million Windows 7 copies sold since launch
updated 08:20 am EST, Thu March 4, 2010MS reveals Win 7 fastest selling OS to date
http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/03/04/ms.reveals.win.7.fastest.selling.os.to.date/
“Terrific success” like the Ice Hockey team from Jamaica is a “terrific success”.
Oh wait, they don't even have an ice hockey team.
When we are talking about pre orders alone of over 10 million units even before the product was launched, and sales of over 90 million in just 2 months, you counter with sales of 300,000 after the product was launched?
Get back to me when you stop joking around, ok?
Yeah.. 1/300 th (less than .5%) of the people who have bought Windows 7 already. Now THAT is a game changer, not your measly 300,000.
Yeah.. 1/300 th (less than .5%) of the people who have bought Windows 7 already.
Talk about "not resting on your laurels" -- Apple just keeps "pumping it out" ... one thing after another. They are a dynamo, when it comes to these consumer products that the public is buying up like crazy, like hotcakes... LOL ...
Immediately after the iPad, and before it's even established the wild sales records that it's generating right now -- Apple is right back at it with the iPhone.
If you're a consumer that has Apple products, you can be proud that Apple is keeping right up with all its products... :-)
Steve Jobs isn't resting on iPad's laurels as Apple announces sneak peek at its next-generation mobile OS.
By Paul McDougall
April 5, 2010 01:40 PM
Looking to extend its lock on tech industry publicity for a few more days, Apple said it would unveil its new iPhone 4 operating system less than a week after it launched its groundbreaking iPad tablet-style computing device.
An invitation Apple sent to journalists this week features a silhouetted image of the numeral 4 and promises "a sneak peek into the future of iPhone OS" on April 8.
Apple did not provide any details about the platform's functionality, but many users hope it will give users the ability to work with more than one application at once. The iPad has drawn barbs from critics because it suffers from the same limitation.
Given the timelines behind previous sneak peeks at new iPhone platforms, Apple watchers expect the company to roll out new phones based on the software some time this summer.
That would give Apple a leg up on rival Microsoft, as Redmond has said only that devices powered by its new Windows Phone 7 software will be available for purchase in time for the holiday season. Dell, Garmin-Asus, HTC, HP, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, and Qualcomm have all committed to producing phones based on the software, Microsoft said.
Meanwhile, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, and Telstra are among the network providers who are on board with Windows Phone 7.
Apple has partnered exclusively with AT&T for iPhone network carriage in the U.S., but recent reports suggest Apple might make the next version of the iPhone available to Verizon, as well. Apple has not confirmed the reports.
Further clouding the competitive landscape in the mobile market is Intel. The chipmaker earlier this year said it would team-up with Nokia to develop a Linux-based mobile OS called MeeGo, for use on devices powered by Intel's Atom chips.
Let them fix this first. After all, they have been trying for 30 years, and still can't get anywhere:
They have been “apumping" and "apumping" and "apumping” for to the tune of 30 years, and see where it got them.
They still can’t even get into the top 5 to be even mentioned in the charts at all.
Hey... iHope the iPad sells like hot cakes once AT&T stores start selling them! My daughter just started working for AT&T and needs to make lots of moolah!!! ; ~ )
Let them fix this first.
It seems that all the other analysts out there have recognized the huge success of Apple and the iPad. LOL ... There's always the "grousers" around, but they are those old-geezers anyway that don't count for anything. At least we can see how others, put it all "into perspective" -- a huge success... :-)
Dan Frommer
Apr. 5, 2010, 4:52 PM
Here's another way to put Apple's iPad opening weekend in perspective: Apple has already sold more iPad units than Palm sold of its flagship Pre smartphone last quarter.
Apple sold 300,000 iPads on the first day and more sold on Sunday -- and and a bunch of iPad 3G tablets have been pre-ordered. For comparison, Palm sold 408,000 smartphones during its February quarter, across both the Pre and Pixi.
Meanwhile, the iPad already likely has more apps than the Palm Pre, too. As of last night, there were already roughly 3,300 iPad apps available for download, according to Lazard Capital analyst Colin Sebastian. During Palm's earnings call last month, the company said it had "over 2,000" apps available for its WebOS App Catalog. Unless that number has since skyrocketed, the iPad appears to be out in front.
On one hand, that's because it was relatively easy for developers to port their iPhone apps over to the iPad. But on the other hand, WebOS's super-simple HTML- and CSS-based app architecture was supposed to make it easy to develop zillions of apps for WebOS devices, too. That simply hasn't happened.
Apple market share: less than 4% after 30 years of selling PC’s
Lenovo and Acer came from nowhere and clobbered Apple with no problem at all.
ipad sales are pathetic when compared to even Windows 7 pre-oders alone, don't let me even start on Windows 7 sales.
ipad is not even on the same planet, it's still in kindergarten.
Look at the crowd, them darn white folk have too much money!
The libs should be there throwing oreos at the other "them" people!
Oh wait, that's the SEIU spending their rioting stimulus stash.
Nevermind..
They have been “apumping" and "apumping" and "apumping” for to the tune of 30 years, and see where it got them.
Well, it looks like Verizon is apumping and apumping for the iPhone... LOL ...
And now we've got the iPad going crazy, just like the iPhone of about three years ago...
That "apumping" works pretty darned well, I would say ... LOL ...
By Donald Melanson
Posted Apr 6th 2010 2:32PM
So Verizon wants the iPhone. No secret there, right? Not exactly, but Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg has side-stepped any questions on the subject in the past, which makes his recent comments at a conference hosted by the Council of Foreign Relations all the more notable. For the first time, Seidenberg confirmed that he has told Apple that he wants Verizon to carry the iPhone, adding that "we're open to getting the device,"and that "our network is capable of handling it." What he wouldn't say, obviously, is whether Verizon would be getting the phone, saying simply that it's "Apple's call." In other news, Seidenberg also took the opportunity to shoot down rumors of a merger with Vodafone, saying that "there's no compelling reason that this is an exciting thing to do," although he did add that things could always change.
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