Apple is Now Producing 2.3M+ iPads Monthly

Daily Tech ^ | July 6, 2010 10:08 AM | Jason Mick (Blog)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Wow...may not be many buyers left for the followon efforts for other companies.

[ctdonath2]

A billion dollars a month in revenue from just the iPad.
Take that, Apple haters.

[usconservative]

Pretty incredible numbers for a device pronounced dead on arrival by many on here.

(by the way I posted this using my iPad at a whole foods in Chicago while at lunch.)

[SeekAndFind]

Last I heard, APPLE is an American Company.

The next obvious question is this -— WHERE is APPLE manufacturing these products ?

[pgkdan]

So you can surf the web using the IPad? Do you have to use ATT for connectivity or can you network with your existing service provider?

[Loud Mime]

Here is a breakdown of the innards of an I-Pad.

It's mostly battery and screen. The rest of the stuff is small and well hidden.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It is likely that it is engineered and designed mostly in the USA ( but mostly ) has other components ( circuit boards, chips )...manufactured in Taiwan and assembled in Asia.

But I don't know for certain.

[GOP_Lady]

I will be purchasing an iPad tomorrow. Yeah!

[Truth29]

"The next obvious question is this -— WHERE is APPLE manufacturing these products ?"

I read reports attributing production to both Taiwan and Mainland China. The mainland China reports have also cited poor working conditions and alleged worker suicides.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Be sure and see the link at Post #7.....very revealing....

The circuitboard carries the APPLE Stamp:

[ctdonath2]

Surf the web? Anywhere, anytime, always on. 11 hour nominal battery life (my long-run heavy-use test yesterday hit empty in 6 hours). This thing is a game changer.

AT&T is the only one to support it for now. Capability is there (via replaceable microSIM(?) card) for others to support it, but nobody has yet.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the breakdown (see link at post #7)...step 15...we have:

This means the A4 processor is probably being manufactured by Samsung....(That would be Korea... I think )

Wrong...from 1996 :

Samsung invests $1.5 billion in North American manufacturing facilities;

[BunnySlippers]

I totally love my iPad. Got the 3G.

[BunnySlippers]

You will love it! I carry mine with me everywhere.

[Fabozz]

"The next obvious question is this -— WHERE is APPLE manufacturing these products?"

In countries whose citizens actually want to work for a living. The citizens of this country, by contrast, claim they want to work, then put the lie to that by continually voting statists--from both parties--into office. When US voters stop electing politicians who loot the productive to coddle the indolent, then you can start criticizing companies for seeking sunnier climes.

[ctdonath2]

From tic.com:

Say that we had first contact with some super (economically) advanced aliens.

…and pretty soon they set up factories here.

…and I was offered a job in one of these factories, doing software engineering.

The pay is $400k/year.

The work week is 20 hours long.

The work environment is far better than I’m used to – great internal decoration, well tended plants, a zen-like water garden near my desk, massages every other day.

…and then left-wing alien “sentient being rights activists” started protesting, because I was being forced to work for less than a quarter of the prevailing wage in Alpha Centauri, and my work hours were twice as long as the legal norms in Alpha Centauri, and I didn’t have every mandatory benefits like “other other year off”, and “free AI musical composition mentoring”.

…and then left-wing alien “sentient being rights activists” wanted to make it illegal for my employer and I to contract with each other at mutually beneficial terms.

…then I would be rip shit that some elitist who had never visited me, or knew of my actual alternatives on the ground presumed to decide that I shouldn’t have this opportunity.

Which brings me to my core point: Chinese factory conditions may not be the exact cup of tea for a San Francisco graphic designer or a Connecticut non-profit ecologist grant writer … but they’re, by definition, better than all the other alternatives available to the Chinese workers (or the factories would find it impossible to staff up).

Butt out, clueless activists.

[ctdonath2]

Make that “From tjic.com:”.
The iPad does have pretty aggressive spelling auto-correction to overcome the no-tactile-feedback virtual keyboard issues (fingers tend to drift when typing fast), which is unfriendly to some website names.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Here it is....all apart:

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[BunnySlippers]

Thanks for the ping!