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Apple Sold 2 Million iPads In 59 Days
- melling 16y agoGood for Apple. It's great to see a company make big jumps in the consumer market. There are too many "me too" companies that won't take a chance and invent the next big thing. Can someone talk Steve Jobs into building a consumer robot? Someone needs to kickstart this market.
- ekanes 16y agoI'd love to see how Apple would reinvent the car.
- axod 16y agoProbably make it so you could only use Apple approved Petrol.
- what 16y agoI can't find it now, but amidst the 3.3.1 kerfuffle someone blogged about what the iCar would be like. Here's what I remember from it: If Apple made cars: * You'd only be able to drive them on Apple-certified roads * The cupholder would only accept a proprietary Apple cup * There would only be one pedal * You could have any color you want - provided it's brushed aluminium
- grinich 16y agoIIRC, they were working on a project with BMW a few years ago.
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoOr a 3x2x1" mac nano to replace the mac mini?
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoDid I say for just $199?
- papersmith 16y ago"Can someone talk Steve Jobs into building a consumer robot?" Chances are he will talk you into buying an espresso machine instead. :)
- maxklein 16y agoIt seems a month ago there were 4000 iPad apps made and now there are 5000? iPad is not the same gold-rush for app developers as the iPhone was, that's for sure.
- alttab 16y agoIt could also be that because the device is more capable, creating the applications take more work - because they are bigger, require more UI development, and because people will expect more out of them. Give it another quarter.
- oneplusone 16y agoI think this is because the ipad has a larger screen and thus you need to have more features (and longer dev cycle) on it or it will look empty. There is also the expectation of higher quality apps. Fart and other junk apps probably don't work very well because of this and thus the total app number is much lower.
- glhaynes 16y agoYeah, absolutely. Fart apps make sense on the iPhone - it's something you always have with you and you can whip it out when you're with your friends and do some cute little gimmick that's deleted 2 minutes later after the $0.99 of value has been drained from it. iPad uses are for the most part much closer to a 'traditional computing' model.
- commieneko 16y agoFart apps for the iPhone: Big red button in the center of the screen that says "fart." Cost: $0.99. Fart apps for the iPad: An array of buttons labeled things like "squeeker" and "poot" and "low rumble" and "Shock and and Awe." Plus controls for volume, stereo center, and a time line editor for layering multi-channel, multi-event sequences. Cost: $4.99.
- kmfrk 16y agoI haven't seen an iPad yet, but I expect the design obligation to be much bigger; you can't slap something together with five default elements which already covers up 60% of the screen on an iPhone. iPad is a canvas to the user and the designer---and the letter is a big commitment. I don't think that there are any standard designs to iPad apps like with the iPhone.
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- eande 16y agoThe TV Program Technow showed yesterday a school here in the Silicon Valley where each student got a iPad. They are now going to roll this program out to every student of this school beginning this upcoming school year. I am surprised how fast some schools are jumping on the technology and would not be surprised to see the iPad sales numbers to climb up even faster.
- protomyth 16y agoThe enterprise remote tools will work well for schools (e.g. remote disable). It might be very tempting to start a company to build a library of single topic lessons (audio, video, text, and maybe some simulation) on a variety of subjects. License it to schools for a yearly fee. Plus, you have the added bonus of no camera so you won't get sued for that :)
- olefoo 16y agoActually the educational technology sector is well established, most of the large textbook companies already have programs for flowing their content into multiple application formats, and have well established sales teams that understand the market. Not to say that there aren't opportunities in that space, but you are going to have to provide unique value if you want to be competitive.
- josefresco 16y agoFull Disclosure: I bought an iPad 2 days ago. Interesting perspective: 2 million iPads in 60 days is roughly 33K/day. Google is activating 3x as many Android phones per day (and presumably growing). An Android phone != an iPad but it makes you wonder what sales numbers will look like when we start seeing Dell tablets running Android (along with the other 5 big PC manufacturers) As usual Apple has a huge head start, and like with the iPhone will have a 2nd generation iPad device out by the time we see any credible Android competition.
- hop 16y agoCosts for tablets will certainly spiral as manufacturing is so simple and Android is free to the OEMs. Tough comparing to iPad to Android #'s b/c everyone needs a cell phone and their lifecycle is about 1.5 years.
- brisance 16y ago100% of the iPad profits go to Apple. How much of the profits go to each individual Android licensee?
- albemuth 16y agoThat question would make sense if google were in it for the licenses.
- brisance 16y agoIt was in answer to the earlier post mentioning 100K Android devices shipped on a daily basis. Whereas Google makes no money from each Android device sold and in fact bears the cost of developing Android, Apple on the other hand is recovering its development/marketing expenses and takes all the profit from sales of the iPad. How many Google ad impressions does a consumer need to see before the payoff is the same as that from selling an iPad? Or... how much is your personal data worth to you? To Google?
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- FluidDjango 16y agoAlthough my family members have the iPad bug, my major concern is what sort of impact these sales (plus next iPhone) are going to have on flash memory supplies/prices (short-term).
- volomike 16y agoThat's all about to change once Google gets their low-cost tablet out. You can already get an APad, but it's not very big. Another problem is that Android apps only have a small form factor and aren't designed yet for the larger screens.
- elblanco 16y agoNo matter what you think about the device (and by extension Apple), these are impressive numbers.