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To: Swordmaker
“Many have said (iPad) is the most successful consumer product ever launched"

These numbers are for "consumer products" Most if not all the major competitors have both a consumer and business lines of products. I ate at a restaurant that used HP iPAQ Pocket PC a few years back to take orders. It was not a "consumer market" device. Before the iPad there wasn't much of a "consumer market" for the product.

28 posted on 03/07/2011 7:20:42 PM PST by ThomasThomas (it said the speeling was OK)
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To: ThomasThomas
These numbers are for "consumer products" Most if not all the major competitors have both a consumer and business lines of products. I ate at a restaurant that used HP iPAQ Pocket PC a few years back to take orders. It was not a "consumer market" device. Before the iPad there wasn't much of a "consumer market" for the product.

Uh, an article I just read said that a large percentage of the iPads sold were sold to government and Enterprise ... that makes them not consumer products... the iPad is a business tool now, as well as a consumer device. Better than 80% of the fortune 500 are either deploying them or piloting programs to deploy them. Some are buying them by the thousands.

32 posted on 03/07/2011 7:23:51 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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