Apple Sells 3 Million iPads in Under Three Months

[phexac]

Every time Jobs uses the word "magical" I get the same feeling as when a politician use the phrase "American people."

 

[Belardo]

With those numbers... I think they might have sold more than the PC-Windows based PAD/tablets over the past 8 years.

 

[everlast66]

[citation][nom]figgus[/nom]3 million iPads sold. Even if this was just in the US, it would be BARELY 1% penetration in the market of 300 million people. In other words, 1 out of 100 Americans would have one.Of course, this number is probably closer to worldwide and there are 6 BILLION people on the planet. Assuming they are marketing to 50% of the world, that is 0.1% penetration, or 1/1000 people.Not a very awe inspiring number, to be honest.[/citation]

Let me ask you one question, mate,
If Apple has 0.1% of the tablet market which companies have the remaining 99.9% of the market?!?
I've not heard of any company sold 999 times 3,000,000 tablets ?

The american market is NOT the total number of americans but only the customers that are interestd in a tablet device. In this case if the total number of tablets in use before the iPad was 3 mil (which i doubt) Apple effectively expanded the market 2 times and now holds 50% of this market!

 

[Repelsteeltje]

Mankind. Down the drain.

 

[Repelsteeltje]

[citation][nom]maydaynomore[/nom]The only positive thing about this is that many other companies are going to want a piece of that pie.[/citation]

I like pie.

 

[kronos_cornelius]

[citation][nom]masterasia[/nom]I personally have no use for such device. My kids on the other hand can't take their hands off my brother's iPad 3G. I tried the Netflix app on it and it's slow and and sluggish at best. Must be ATT's 3G network.[/citation]

My nieces love to play on a computer those flash games that are ubiquitous on the web these days. I suppose they would get bored with an iPad in 10 seconds.

I recently got a netbook, but I made sure it has enough CPU and acceleration. I think the iPad (based on the comments here) would just anoy me; With no keyboard, touch keyboards make hesitate when typing, and the slow hardware would likely make me go to a real computer (my Desktop or my Laptop) instead of waiting.

 

[j51]

[citation][nom]sliem[/nom]Soon, these buyers will regret their purchase. I give them a year.[/citation]

I fully agree with you.

But this is the same as most of computer and electronic products... As soon as you buy them... they will be outdated in 3-10 months (depends on the nature of the products).

 

[zambutu]

Wow, some of you guys need to try one for about a week before posting your appraisals. I'm not an apple fanboy and the iPad is my first device, and I don't thing I'll ever buy another laptop. Desktop pc or Mac, and a slate is the future IMO. It may not be this year, or the next, but I'm sure you guys will all end up with an iPad or competing slate. I now hate web browsing with a mouse or touchpad. This is a far more intuitive and rewarding way to use the Internet. I like the hold the pad in portrait mode and thumb type, no problems with the keyboard at all for rudimentary typing.

Sure it doesn't do everything I want and there's a bunch of stuff I'd change, like a slightly bigger screen and 720p resolution, for starters. But for now, it's does enough of what I want to justify the purchase. I have 4 PCs including a laptop, and the iPad probably gets 80% of my computing use. This will not change. The internet is snappier on this than my PCs as far as I'm concerned. There are some advantages to proprietary devices.

In a year I'll probably sell it off and get one that does more of what I want.

 

[j51]

[citation][nom]Userremoved[/nom]This proves this world is filled with idiots.[/citation]

True... but that make everyone of us idiots, too.... since nobody knows everything... so we are all idiots in one way or another...😉

Back to the story... it is impressive to see how Apple expend an used to be very small market (tablet) to a much bigger one.

While I still don't find much use of the iPad (at least for myself)... I am still impressed by how Apple manage to sell this many in this short period of time (most of time in the US and few weeks in 5 other countries.

It is a textbook example of how to market a carefully crafted product (I mean carefully crafted.. not powerful or best of the buck... just carefully crafted...)

 

[Nintendork]

zambutu
What you need is hit yourself, destroys that piece of junk and then buy a tablet laptop. That's what you need from the very beginning.

The way you iPad is exactly what Jobs want, an idiotic brainless sheep. Next time you will think that paying for breath is the next cool think.

The iBreath.

 

[maddad]

First, let me say I haven't seen an Ipad, let alone used one, and I don't own a single Apple product. But where was the Droid before the Iphone came out and sold like hotcakes. Apple innovates everyone else jumps on board with their own product that is similar. Now the Ipad comes along and sure enough soon their should be a lot of "Ipad killers" out from HP, Dell, Acer ets... Apple innovates they jump on the ship. Not sure of why there are so many Apple haters here, but I would bet most if not all, like myself, have never even tried an Apple product. But you would'nt have had your Iphone or Ipad "clones" if Apple hadn't put out these type products first, or at least not for a while. They have changed somewhat because they had to, but Dell, HP, and Compaq used to put out some really proprietary products themselves. Just ask tech who wanted to buy an "off the shelf" part and put it into a Dell or HP case a few years back. I hope Apple keeps bringing new innovative products to the market. I may never buy anything they make, but I am sure I might purchase one of the many clones that all the other companies will put out later.

 

[Tamz_msc]

In other words:It takes less than three months to know that three million people in the world are stupid.

 

[kartu]

http://www.dula.tv/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/stone-vs-ipad.png

 

[dEAne]

I really love to have one.

 

[kartu]

[citation][nom]everlast66[/nom]Let me ask you one question, mate, If Apple has 0.1% of the tablet market which companies have the remaining 99.9% of the market?!?I've not heard of any company sold 999 times 3,000,000 tablets ?The american market is NOT the total number of americans but only the customers that are interestd in a tablet device. In this case if the total number of tablets in use before the iPad was 3 mil (which i doubt) Apple effectively expanded the market 2 times and now holds 50% of this market![/citation]
Wrong 2 times.
1) Mr Jobbs "magical" device is supposed to CREATE new market.
2) I am mildly interested in such device (so I guess I AM part of the market), but from a reasonable company and for a reasonable price. I won't accept any kind of jobbsle like insulting DRM. (Can't read my own non DRM stuff from my own device? Can't add files to my device from more than one PC? Are you kidding?)

 

[Userremoved]

[citation][nom]j51[/nom]True... but that make everyone of us idiots, too.... since nobody knows everything... so we are all idiots in one way or another...[/citation]
So true!

 

[applerocks]

[citation][nom]Tamz_msc[/nom]In other words:It takes less than three months to know that three million people in the world are stupid.[/citation]

nope all you have to do is read the comments right here. Everyday, the omnipotent posters on Toms will gladly let you know that they are the only ones with any intelligence in their heads and everyone else, especially anyone who has ever bought a product from Apple are brain dead.

 

[scrumworks]

Many people are Apple suckers.

 

[nukemaster]

iPod touch and iPhone kind of make sense for quick browsing away from home, but at home, it would make sense to have flash. There is just too much flash on the web to ignore it. Try turning off flash for a week and see how you like it.

 

[applegetsmelaid]

I'm curious now. 3 million sold... or 3 million shipped? Businesses often report sales as units that are in an authorized retailer's inventory. Common practice in the media industry as well to create a hype factor about a product that is collecting dust in a store's warehouse.

 

[Guest]

I bought one for my Mom for her Mother's Day/birthday present and she loves it. She isn't the tech savvy type and loves how simple it is. It's the Wi-fi only 32 GB model and it suits her needs. She reads her magazines on it, browses the web (mainly Facebook :/), and loves watching her movies with Netflix on it. The only thing shes wished it had was a built-in camera for Skype.

It's a good device for the right consumer. Even if it's a bit overpriced. 😛

 

[Userremoved]

[citation][nom]desmolocke@gmailcom[/nom]I bought one for my Mom for her Mother's Day/birthday present and she loves it. She isn't the tech savvy type and loves how simple it is. It's the Wi-fi only 32 GB model and it suits her needs. She reads her magazines on it, browses the web (mainly Facebook ), and loves watching her movies with Netflix on it. The only thing shes wished it had was a built-in camera for Skype.It's a good device for the right consumer. Even if it's a bit overpriced.[/citation]
That's the perfect description for the iPad!