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I bought my wife an iPad for Christmas(I was tired of her using mine).

I was just barely able to buy one at a Best Buy in my region at the last minute because they were selling out so fast. The day before Christmas Eve I found the one I wanted in stock, and I drove for an hour to get it. When I got there, there were 3 people with the guy selling iPads. Luckily, The one I was after wasn’t one the other people were looking for, and I was able to get one for her.

The Best Buy rep told me that they had totally sold out of iPads three times during that week, and they would likely empty the inventory again on that day, because they had very few left. He said that he’d never seen anything like that kind of demand when it comes to computers.

I almost think that the competitors to the iPad are too late out of the gate. So many people now own iPads, and the defacto name for a tablet type device is now an “iPad”, just as an internet search is called a “google”. Very difficult to overcome.

I bought my wife an iPad for Christmas(I was tired of her using mine).

I bought six iPads (4 16GB WIFI, 2 64GB WIFI 3G) and 3 Macs (21.5" iMac, 27" iMac, MacMini Server), in the last week of 2010, for the dental office I manage. Personally, I bought three 16Gb iPhone4s and a 64GB iPad 3G for personal and family use.

‘I almost think that the competitors to the iPad are too late out of the gate. So many people now own iPads, and the defacto name for a tablet type device is now an “iPad”, just as an internet search is called a “google”. Very difficult to overcome.’

Flashback to the iPad launch, and all the juvenile attempts to denigrate the name and product. LOL!

Glad to see my analysis at the time was spot on. ;-)

I managed to hold off on iPad 1 and make do with my iPhone 4, but expect to pick up an iPad 2 shortly after launch.

I think this article is dead on, and I expect Mac computers to continue to pick up momentum.

I almost think that the competitors to the iPad are too late out of the gate. So many people now own iPads, and the defacto name for a tablet type device is now an “iPad”, just as an internet search is called a “google”. Very difficult to overcome.

I agree. It's similar to when the iPod came out in the early 2000s. It almost immediately became uncool to own any other brand of MP3 player.

As I've stated previously on Apple related threads, I believe Apple will sell over one billion (1,000,000,000) iPad devices worldwide♠ over the next decade. For Apple shareholders, this represents $600b in revenue just for the iPad alone. Hold on to those shares!