Wow. Steve Jobs' latest creation is selling well...
Posted on 05/04/2010 7:48:26 AM PDT by myknowledge
The iPad Wi-Fi + 3G, Apple's new 'magical' device, has managed to sell 300,000 units over the weekend, a respected Apple observer has confirmed, indicating at the significant demand which the device has been greeted with.
According to the figures estimated by Gene Munstner, a senior bean cruncher at the Piper Jaffray & Co. in Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog, Apple has sold nearly 300,000 iPads this weekend, starting Friday.
Munster has come to the estimation, which has been concluded after considering several other numbers and facts, like the count of people at the Apple store in New York and a store in a mall outside Minneapolis.
The results were then compared with the count estimated at the first launch of the Wi-Fi only model, which showed: 329 V/S 730 in NYC and 119 V/S 132 in Minneapolis.
The other factors that contributed largely to the high sales, according to Munstner are, is a Friday launch instead on launching it on a Saturday, giving buyers more time to make advance bookings for the device.
He further added that, as per his educated guess, the total sales of Apple's tablet in this quarter, is likely to cross the 1.3 million milestone.
We now know that Apple has sold more than one million iPads as of Friday 30th of April which means that it will most likely smash the three million iPad sold for the quarter.
Wow. Steve Jobs' latest creation is selling well...
Would anyone who owns one of these babies care to comment? I own an iPod Touch (essentially an iPhone without the phone, but with wi-fi capability) and I absolutely love it. I’ve loaded it up with apps (mostly Free, some @99 cents) and when my grandchildren see me, they practically rip it from my hands. I forgive them because they are aged 2 to 5, and because they’re cute.
Played with one at my Apple fanatic sister’s house this weekend.
Not a bad device, but it’s an “appliance”.
Good for surfing and entertainment, but certainly not for PC or Mac replacement.
I bought one of the 3G versions from the Apple store. It’s supposed to ship Thursday.
I am a gadget head. We have 2 computers, 2 laptops, a server, 2 blackberries and various other gadgets at home. This will be my first venture in to the world of Apple. I wanted an iPhone for a while but not enough to give up my Blackberry. Personal Opinion but my Blackberry Curve 8900 blows the iPhone away in the realm of email. I will never give it up.
I bought one of the iPads for books and games.
I like that people are obsessed with owning their products. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over my broker account.
A friend of mine had his delivered last weekend. The FedEx dude said he had been delivering them all day long.
Exactly right; it's a toy for surfing or reading. Personally, I have a spare eeePC 1000HE for that purpose, that lasts a LONG time (around 8 hours), has a larger screen with about the same number of pixels, and a keyboard that you can actually type on.
No it doesn't replace my monster 17" HP laptop, but it is light and long-lasting and makes a fun little toy to have around. The ability to use it as a "real" computer is a big benefit.
Best thing of all: with it's 160 GB HDD, Atom processor, and "full" OS, it's a great media server for my Squeezebox! I have about 400 CDs of music ripped - lossless - on it and it makes a wonderful low power, silent media server.
Would anyone who owns one of these babies care to comment?
Well, perhaps Swordmaker can ping the list for some good information for you ... :-)
I like being in the position of owning Apple stock but none of their products.
And they're doing absolutely fantastic, business-wise...
But, of course, the Macintosh computer and/or other Apple products (like iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) are bought by the consumers not because of the stock price of Apple -- but because Apple makes wildly successful products for the consumer ... :-)
Thanks mostly to the iPhone, Apple's cash and investments rose to about $42 billion as of March 31, nearly three-quarters of the tech company's total assets. In six months' time that figure could approach $50 billion, given Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes's estimate that Apple will generate $14.6 billion in free cash flow this fiscal year.
As a banker, though, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs is no Jamie Dimon. Invested heavily in government and corporate securities and commercial paper, based on past disclosures, the money earned an average yield of 0.75% in the December quarter. Apple hasn't disclosed the March-quarter yield.
[ from ... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704133804575198350644055686.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read ]
Exactly right; it's a toy for surfing or reading.
The funny thing about that ... is that it sounds like "deja vu" when saying it about the iPad, because it was said about the iPhone, too -- almost three years ago. And we know how wildly successful that has been.
BUT, the iPad is outstripping the sales records of the iPhone -- and so doing about twice as good as the iPhone in the same amount of time, when it was first introduced.
I expect to hear the "same noises" about iPad, as we heard about the iPhone and the sales records will just keep on climbing ... :-)
By the way, the iPad is quite a productive platform. It's not meant to be a regular laptop, because Apple already is very successful in that area. It's something that is not the iPhone and is not a laptop ... but it is a very productive piece of machinery, nonetheless.
Look at this "Features Page for iPad" ...
It's has a full-featured web browser, just like the iPhone and the iPod Touch, does, too. And so, all your browsing and posting on Free Republic can be done, on the run, anywhere you want to go with a full screen and a keyboard to type on (using all fingers, not just "tap-tap" with two fingers ... LOL ...).
You can handle all your e-mail accounts, quickly and speedily, no matter where you're at. It just keeps running all day long.
Your photos are all available there, for slide shows and you've got your albums there, too, just like iPhoto and also it has the facial recognition software in there, too (matching all people with the same face and just picking them out of all your photos).
You have all your videos and TV shows and podcasts, all handy, right there on the iPad. Your home movies, if you want and/or your DVDs, too. I keep up with certain news and other stories with my Podcasts that keep updating themselves and whenever I get around to having the time to listen, they're already there and already downloaded. I don't have to hunt for them.
YouTube has always been there for iPhone, iPod Touch and now iPad, too (of course). And no worries about all this "hoopla" about Flash. Flash is nothing but trashware/flashware and is disappearing on the net.
Your iPod is right there, too... all your music and/or "books" that you want to listen to (the reading of the books is there, too, but the iPod gives you the spoken books). All the features that you expect on your iPod is right there on your iPad.
You've got your iTunes Store, right there, and a little known secret to it -- is that there's a whole lot that is free on iTunes. Many of the artists give away free songs and then, there is the "University" on iTunes in which some prestigious universities are putting their full course right on iTunes for you to download freely. What a deal! You won't get credit for the courses, of course, but if you like the courses, they're right there for the taking, any time you want. And there's a lot more that is there for free on iTunes.
And then, you've got the Apple App Store, all your apps in one place. There are 150,000 apps there for you -- anything you can imagine is there -- and also -- there are a ton of apps for free... So many others are just $1.00. You would be amazed at how cheap the apps are and what they can do.
I like the Bible study programs in the App Store. Many are free but the ones you buy are cheap and they're amazing in what you can do there. If you're interested in your prescriptions and what conflicts with what or looking at other medications or figuring out the bad side effects, they've got a free professional program for doing all that. There's no end to the apps you will find extremely useful for whatever you want to do. I've got a few free "star chart" programs that I like to spot what a certain star is that I'm looking at in the evening. :-)
You've got iBooks, too... a virtual library of who knows how many good books to read. You can also be reading your own books (some that you may have on PDF files) and just read them by that method -- or pick up the books that are ready-to-go online through the bookstore. It's all there for you.
And "Maps" ... it's great! Talk about "street view" and seeing what it's like where you are intending on going, it's all there on the iPad.
With "Notes" you can make all kinds of simple notes to yourself or just compose something for another application later, just entering the text for now. I find it extremely useful for making notes to myself "on the run" for stuff that I don't want to forget and I don't have to worry about "losing the note" as I have before with notes in my pocket or in the car or tucked in a boook that I'm reading ... LOL ...
Your full calendar is there, ready-to-go for you, and it synchronizes beautifully with your computer (like my laptop for example). I don't have to be concerned where I entered something (laptop, or desktop or iPhone or iPad...) -- it doesn't matter, because it all "matches up" and it gets all the devices "on the same page" without me thinking about it one whit. :-)
And then there's the "Contacts" -- your address book and personal phone book. If there's something that you entered in on your iPhone earlier today, it will show up on your iPad within minutes, matched up and/or corrected or something added or even something deleted. I always used to (in the past) get different phone books/address books going in different places and had a heck of a time matching them up. It was a headache. Never a headache here... no matter if something is partially added on the desktop, updated and corrected on the laptop, another number added on the iPhone and then looking up all that I did on all those other devices for this new entry ... it's all there and ready-to-go on the iPad... hoo-boy!
And you have a great search function that will find anything in any kind of document even if you barely remember what it was that you saw earlier and you can't quite put your hands on it. Just use that built-in search for the iPad and you'll have it in no-time-flat. :-)
And then, you've got your productivity suite of apps, from iWork -- you can do desktop publishing on it -- design brochures or ads or just a flying for selling your puppy this weekend. It's done on "Pages". Do a professional letter to your clients, or a letter to your son or daughter at college, or that flyer or anything -- it's all there on the iPad.
With "Keynote" you'll be able to do "slide shows" for presentations. You have a presentation you have to get done by tomorrow but you're running around today? Well, no problem because you can put together that slide-show presentation as you go around and do your other chores, with your iPad.
Perhaps you need to have a spreadsheet item included in your "Keynote" slide-show presentation. No problem. Do your spreadsheet on "Numbers". It's a great spreadsheet program and you can put together something in seconds and minutes.
It just goes on and on and on... and you basically can't find an end to what you can do on the iPad.
Talk about a great productivity machine -- iPad is it ... :-)
In my experience, that will be a very expensive purchase. I bought a mac-mini off of ebay...now we have an iMac, 2 macbooks...ipods for everyone...
(Sent from my good ole Dell...)
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He passed around a iPad. If you have a iTouch as I have, you have 95% of it. Pages, Numbers & Keynote each $9 each. Last night a reseller came from Colorado Springs
came to the local Internet café.
I stood in line Friday. I totally love my iPad and love it more each day.
I also have the iPad Touch ... but much prefer the iPad. So much more real estate. And iBooks is terrific ... it will be much better when their book store has more of a selection. Games are more fun on the iPad.
The i:Pad has a 10 hour battery life.
iBooks delivers an amazinf visual experience reading books. What OS is your book reader using?
I thought I might have problems typing on the iPad but after 30 minutes on it it was just fine.
I played with one yesterday for the first time.
What a wonderful and useful gadget. What really surprised me was the sound quality. I played a YouTube jazz track that I knew had been recored well for a DVD (Don Grusin/Mokossa Beat from “The Hang”) and it was really nicely rendered. The video was smooth and crisp, and the sound... waaaay better than I expected from a hand-held device. Nice buxom bass, crisp highs, robust mid-range. How’d they do that?
I am relaxing in bed, reading the latest on FR, using my basic bottom of the line iPad. If email comes in, I do not have to get up to read it.
I read books on it, and much prefer it over the Kindle. If I can’t sleep, I can listen to Coast to Coast via IHeartRadio. When I have to run errands, sit in a waiting room, or make a presentation, I can load my documents on it, and go.
It is a wonderful addition to my trusty MacBook Pro and my iPhone. I would never be without one!
Sent from my iPad, while watching Greta on Fox.
Thanks to all who replied. I was hoping to be talked out of buying one. Now, I can’t wait to order one.
Thanks to all who replied. I was hoping to be talked out of buying one. Now, I can’t wait to order one.
Keep in mind you've got two different ones -- an iPad with WiFi, and then, an iPad with WiFi and AT&T Cellular.
If you're content with using the Internet part of the iPad only on WiFi, that's the one that costs a bit less and there's nothing more to pay monthly. On the other hand, if you want your Internet access to be everywhere (the cellular network too, besides WiFi), then that one is a bit more costly, and then you've got your monthly charge for the "data plan" on AT&T.
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