That's impressive how?
And Windows 7 sold more units 10 minutes after launch than ipad has sold up to date. Palm has been comatose for years. Beating Palm is like beating a dead man.
That's impressive how?
Impressive..., you bet... LOL ... it's only the "nattering nabobs of negativity" that don't think it is.... LOL ...
It's getting so impressive that the Kindle Nation Daily is heaping praise on the iPad ... hoo-boy!
Mark LaPedus
(04/06/2010 11:54 AM EDT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The Kindle Nation Daily, an independent blog site and advocate for Amazon.com's e-book reader, posted a shocking item: The site praised Apple Inc.'s iPad and said the device would ''kill'' the netbook.
But will the iPad be a ''Kindle killer''? ''Well, yes and no,'' according to the site. The Kindle Nation Daily is published independently by Stephen Windwalker and is not endorsed by Amazon.com Inc. It is a news source for Amazon.com's Kindle.
''We'll see how this shakes out, but from where I sat on baseball's Opening Day yesterday and the iPad's opening weekend, it appeared that Apple had hit a grand slam home run,'' according to the blog.
''There will be millions of people who buy iPads in the next few years who will never buy Kindles (or Nooks or Sony Readers or any other dedicated ebook readers, for that matter),'' according to the blog.
''The Kindle device itself will continue to chug along in its current and future models, building upon and doubling (this year) its current installed base of about 3 million units, but the iPad's installed base will probably catch up with the Kindle's hardware base within a year and keep right on going,'' according to the blog.
What will be the impact of the iPad? Here's what the blog says about the iPad: 1) The iPad will kill the netbook; 2) The iPad will not kill the laptop dead, but it will seriously wound its mass appeal; 3) The iPad will also kill or seriously cannibalize sales of the iPod Touch; and 4) The iPad could even cut into iPhone, BlackBerry, and Droid sales.
According to market watcher iSuppli Corp., Apple could sell as many as 7.1 million iPads this year, though International Data Corp. estimated 2010 tablet sales at 6 million for the entire industry.
The Apple iPad sports an unusually high processor-to-memory channel, an abundance of touch-screen silicon and a novel case design, according to a teardown report from UBM TechInsights, a sister division of EE Times. The report shows Samsung and Broadcom are among the major silicon suppliers in the system released to much fanfare Saturday (April 3).
There is a plethora of reviews for iPad, which are all over the map and mixed.