"Apple has been able to generate over $75 million in revenue in one day on a product that 99.9% of purchasers haven't touched or for that matter, even seen in person," said Victor Castroll, an analyst with Valcent Financial Group.
It is. Being 'second best' is usually the best position to be in when dealing with new tech, invariably there are kinks to be worked out.
I think after the imac, ipod and iphone experience Apple has created a solid following that has forgotten about things like the 'lisa', the 'newton' and the 'macintosh portable' and the 'pipin' or whatever that game computer was called.
Well, technically they haven't made $75million in 19hours. It is estimated that they did.
If you read it, they are basing the numbers on Apple Online store numbers which is accurate enough to boost stocks if you own them, but woefully inaccurate otherwise (because you don't actually know what percentage of sales are iPad sales).
It means even less when there is no comparison with competing devices). Finally, its pre-orders which means less, because the percentage of people who preorder a device, depends on the device.. I personally believe iPad sales will be slow, at least until WWDC and people know where the embedded OS is going..
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It's on par with the iphone, which sold 128,000 units on the first day.
It will be interesting to see if the curve remains consistent with iphone sales over time.
For me and everyone who's pre-ordering, we're simply buying blind and trusting Steve. That's pretty amazing in my opinion.
It is. Being 'second best' is usually the best position to be in when dealing with new tech, invariably there are kinks to be worked out.
I think after the imac, ipod and iphone experience Apple has created a solid following that has forgotten about things like the 'lisa', the 'newton' and the 'macintosh portable' and the 'pipin' or whatever that game computer was called.
No wonder I couldn't find it in google :)
If you read it, they are basing the numbers on Apple Online store numbers which is accurate enough to boost stocks if you own them, but woefully inaccurate otherwise (because you don't actually know what percentage of sales are iPad sales).
It means even less when there is no comparison with competing devices). Finally, its pre-orders which means less, because the percentage of people who preorder a device, depends on the device.. I personally believe iPad sales will be slow, at least until WWDC and people know where the embedded OS is going..