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Apple has sold its millionth iPad in just 28 days
- pohl 16y agoYeah, but that's only because of willful acquisition and maintenance of a monopoly on awesome.
- smakz 16y agoI've only got one question for apple: What's next?
- frou_dh 16y agoAn ergonomic mouse.
- nexneo 16y agoAgree, Magic mouse is really nice. Still too flat.
- numbchuckskills 16y agoMicrosoft Arc all the way. Looks great paired with a Macbook Pro.
- catch23 16y agoI think if they added curvatures it would make the multi-touch gestures hard to use. Hard to do a 3-finger swipe on a curved surface because your fingers would still need to be at an angle to the surface causing you to unnaturally bend your hand upward. Try to use a touch pad that is at a 45 degree angle away from you, you'll find your wrist straining over. I'm sure they tried a curved mouse, but then realized the touch gestures would be too painful on the wrist.
- andymoe 16y agoJoking aside, the "magic mouse" is my favorite piece of apple hardware so far. It's just awesome. Best 70 bucks I have given to apple.
- tortilla 16y agoSeriously? It just feels uncomfortable with my limited testing. What makes it your favorite?
- j79 16y agoAgreed. I thought it was too flat to be comfortable. I'd love to be able to use gestures, but with my limited demo, I found my hand was cramping up. Maybe I'm just use to those nicely contoured Logitech mice, though? Now that I think of it, the Magic Mouse is probably less "resting" and more "pushing" when compared to other mice...
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- andymoe 16y agoYes, it is flat but that does not matter. Your entire hand does not rest on the mouse just you fingertips. I really like the action of the accelerated scrolling with the touch interface - it hardly takes any motion at all. Right click works perfectly as you would expect and the battery lasts forever. It is really nice to be able to get multi-touch on my older macs. I think there is a way to get it working with windows but I have not tried. I bring mine everywhere with me since I generally prefer a mouse to the touchpad (even on my 15" MacPro)
- benmathes 16y agoIf your left-click finger is resting on the left side of the mouse when right clicking it registers as a left click. Back and Forward are achievable with two-finger dragging to the left and right, but what about middle clicking? I agree that it seems pretty magic, but at the end of the day different physical buttons are preferable to a single flat surface that affords everything; The mouse gives you no physical hints on how to use it.
- sant0sk1 16y agoHah, that'll be the day! Instead, I'd love to see Apple release a bluetooth keyboard that includes a multitouch trackpad for use with Mac Minis, Mac Pros, iPads, and other devices that support multitouch.
- colomon 16y agoI'd gladly use such a keyboard with my MacBook Pro, when it's sitting on my desk. Right now I'm typing on a standard Mac keyboard in my lap, and have to reach up to use the MBP trackpad.
- Readmore 16y agoA new AppleTV that uses iPhone OS and lets you buy apps from your TV screen as well. Just my thought/hope.
- tvon 16y agoI don't see it using the iPhone OS (too specialized for touch input), but providing an App Store for the AppleTV seems like a logical move.
- ROFISH 16y agoThey could port from a touch interface to something like a cross between the Magic Mouse and the Wii controller and/or use your iPhone to interact with the screen.
- Readmore 16y agoI think they will use as much of it as possible so that app developers will be able to easily move to the AppleTV platform. I would suspect you'll see a new remote that uses Magic Mouse like touch tech and the new development tools will make it easy separate out the visual representation from the control interface. I would also assume that you'll be able to use an iPad/iPod/iPhone as a remote, or multiple devices for multi-player gaming.
- jsz0 16y agoI bet you're right. With Google's Android TV project pending it wouldn't surprise me to see this at WWDC. Between games and media it seems like the obvious next step.
- amichail 16y agoiPhoneOS on Macs?
- andreyf 16y agoI imagine whatever they do next will have to do with fixing their users' biggest problem at the moment: AT&T's horrendous network service. An interesting (possibly related?) observation is that Apple has saved up about ~$40B in cash.
- johns 16y agoI can understand why they won't, but it seems like it would be a good investment for them if they were going to stick with AT&T long-term to invest a couple bil in AT&T's network. Unfortunately since this would benefit other non-Apple devices as well, it will never happen. One can dream though.
- axod 16y agoGaming market. It'd be cool to see them go up against xbox/wii/playstation. I think they could do a very nice job.
- Keyframe 16y agoMy bet is AppleTV+Console combo, though they have burned themselves on Pippin. But then again, they burned themselves on Newton also and they brought it back as an iPhone and iPad. I guess they are determined to bring their ideas/products to light, no matter how much they wait!
- Keyframe 16y agoNew Mac Pro would be nice... /tapping fingers while waiting...
- modoc 16y agoThe big numbers will be the ongoing revenue stream of apps and content delivered via those million devices. I think everyone will be surprised at the average monthly spend through the app store/content stores.
- tjogin 16y agoApple is primarily a hardware company. The present AppStore isn't a big money maker for Apple for the iPhone/iPad (look at their financial reports), I don't see why it would be that different for iPad.
- modoc 16y agoOn the iPad, for the first time with an Apple device, I can easily see myself spending more than the HW purchase cost on apps/content over the next 12 months. Obviously Apple only gets a % of that, but still it's not insignificant and it's a relatively high margin revenue stream. I think we'll see some surprising numbers in next years financials or the year after that.
- acgourley 16y agoAgreed. I also have to wonder if the report showing the app store only broke even was because of initial investments which they will not have to repeat in the future.
- vtail 16y agoWhat's interesting is that they have only sold 1.5M books, or 1.5 books per device. Amazon Kindle should be safe.
- mcav 16y agoThat doesn't really say much about Amazon. Those same 1 million people may not have bought any more on the Kindle App than iBooks. We won't know unless Amazon releases the number of books bought from the iPad.
- smakz 16y agoIf you ever tried to actually read on an iPad you would understand why. The glossy screen means you can't read in natural light, and the backlit screen causes eye strain. For long stretches of reading, iPad can't replace books the same way the Kindle can. Although I'm personally not surprised that books aren't that popular on iPad, but I was curious if people would overcome the above deficiencies with the form factor. Early reports seem to indicate not yet.
- jacoblyles 16y agoFor students, the eye strain might be worth it just to get a decent PDF reader. The eInk readers available are universally horrible at rendering PDFs.
- ugh 16y agoThe iPhone’s PDF viewer is pretty crappy, though. It’s pretty much the only thing on the iPhone that feels unbearably slow. I don’t know how much the iPad improves that but at least on the iPhone reading (long, i.e. ten or more pages) PDFs is no joy.
- samps 16y agoI have experienced the same frustration on my iPhone 3G. I can vouch that the speed is greatly improved on the iPad. The PDF viewer is now actually pleasant. (It's amazing what a little clock speed will do.)
- nexneo 16y agoI Feel bad, I'm not in that million. And in my country not going to available soon.
- dangero 16y agoI wonder if there's more money in making apps ipad enabled now since that market isn't nearly as saturated as the iphone market. So if there's 80 million iPhone/Ipod touches out there, but 200K apps, and only 2K ipad enabled apps, it may be worth it. And yes, I'm aware that iphone apps work on the ipad, but my friends who have ipads won't install iphone apps on their ipad because they come out looking so pixelated.