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An estimated 700,000 iPads bought on day one
- geuis 17y agoNo. I bought an ipad today at the main store in SF. There was no line. There was definitely a crowd of people checking out the demo units and a steady stream of people buying units, but there was no where near the number of people when the iPhone came out. It will sell well, but there was not 700k on the first day.
- khelloworld 17y agoWhile I do doubt they sold 700k iPads in just a day, it is certainly possible that a lot of people opted to pre-ordered their devices online.
- karipatila 17y agoEspecially as home delivery was free.
- dandelany 17y agoYour anecdotal experience is not valid evidence that 700k iPads were not sold.
- jrockway 17y agoAn estimated 200,000 people that bought an iPad today will forget they own it sometime within the next two weeks.
- diego 17y agoI doubt it. I know exactly why I bought mine, and I believe this reason will make it very addictive to everyone else. I see it as an entertainment device. The iPad makes it very hard to do work, and very easy to consume entertainment. It's the perfect device to have next to your bed if you are a workaholic and want to read or watch videos without the temptation of doing work. On my next vacation I'll leave the laptop at home and take the iPad.
- jrockway 17y agoHmm... what I need is a device that makes work more compelling than music, movies, and HN.
- diego 17y agoWhen I started programming in the early 80s computers had no mice, the default mode was a single-task text console and it was pretty hard to do anything other than write code and play the occasional game. It's interesting how entertainment features started to pile up and now entertainment-oriented computers are being built. You could always disconnect the speakers on your computer, remove video players, redirect distracting sites to localhost, and generally hack it so that it's more work-oriented.
- jrockway 17y agoI think my point was that you don't need a special device to make doing something pleasurable more enticing.
- diego 17y agoMaybe you don't need it, but people want it. Reading on an iPad is a superior experience compared to a laptop. The iBooks app is outstanding. In a way it's like watching Avatar at an Imax theater. Sure, it's not required but it's a better experience.
- jrockway 17y agoBut the Kindle is even better. It's so good, in fact, that I have one despite the DRM. (Not that my opinion matters, of course... just sayin'.) "Do one thing and do it well."
- axod 17y agoiPad.putOn(iShelf).iForget();
- sinzone 17y ago(700k #iPad sold today) x (avg price of $700) = $490,000,000
- jrockway 17y agoConsidering the 3G iPads aren't out yet, I doubt the your average price figure.
- swombat 17y agoAnd 90 JooJoo tablets. Minus 15 orders that were cancelled.
- jrockway 17y agoTotally forgot about this. Arrington could have beaten Apple to the punch if only he had not been such a jackass.