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This is disappointingly content-free. "An industry analyst" who declines to be identified in any way shape or form says that the estimate is significantly lowe

This is disappointingly content-free. "An industry analyst" who declines to be identified in any way shape or form says that the estimate is significantly lower than the actual figures and then won't even anonymously comment further on what he thinks the numbers actually are, nor how he arrived at his conclusions? I think the logic behind the original statement of these as optimistic figures is more sound, that being due to the fact that the estimate was made by the difference between web order numbers in a given period, which almost certainly included many more products than just the iPad, and the methodology for restricting that down to just iPad numbers was not clear. Full disclosure; I'd like the iPad and it's ilk to die in a fire.

fierarul 17y ago
>Full disclosure; I'd like the iPad and it's ilk to die in a fire. Define ilk: all "tablets", all Apple products or all Apple touch-based gadgets. Because the iPad doesn't really have "an ilk" in my book.
- etherael 17y ago
  All platforms pushing a walled garden with an excessively onerous approval process and a closed development toolchain restricted to a single overpriced platform. OS X annoys me a little, but if people want to buy it / use it at the end of the day it's no skin off my nose really, it's just overpriced for what it is. IPhone OS based devices however will break the world if they become the dominant computing paradigm, and yes, I'm well aware my definition of "break the world" could easily be changed to "finally fix the world" if you're working with different underlying assumptions.