300,000 sold; a million apps downloaded; 250,000 ebooks downloaded--all in two days.

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I heard 700,000 ! . . was that pre-sales + live sales this weekend ?

What !! 250,000 copies of Going Rogue sold... NO WAY !!

Well, as Dave Winer said, at the least 'it's a great new coral reef'. And Apple will fix its shortcomings. They never get their game-changers right, first out of the gate, including the iPod, iPhone, OSX ( well, not really a game-changer ).

I don't think Apple expected its reception as a production device, but a lot of the sales were for that. But aside from the obvious instantaneity-of-intention consumption stuff unique to it ( that's what's different about it - it's an intentions-executing device ) that it does better than or what an iPhone can't do, nor the less instantaneousness of a pure computing device such as a laptop. A smartphone is less capable and a laptop is too decoupled from just intending something and having it happen instantly/nearly instantly. And instantaneity of gratification is what really makes this special, and such a wedded fit to the mass market as it is today - In all the noise about this thing, that's what's lost, the most important fundamental thing, it's made for people today.

Besides mass consumption adoption, this type of device will be a great field service appliance and basic mobile computing platform.

Doctors will see patients with these. Mechanics/technicians will have manuals and service bulletins on these. Product catalogs will go on these. Etc. Etc.

You can do spreadsheets, video presentations, word processing, chat, email for wage-slave, administrative and executive people.

It will end up being a good SaaS client. The web version of Oracle APEX runs spanky and works good on it. Guys will be accessing ERP on this thing.

A lot of web developers/producers/whomever have scooped this up for a basic mobile development platform ( which I don't quite get, since they're limited to just remote front-ends, and not having a local test environment, Apache-MySQL-PHP, Ruby, Python, etc, is a kinda show-stopper { although I'm sure that won't stop a lot of web wonks from working live - I'd do it } ).

Adobe has a free sketching app ( and it does some things cooler than a desktop app, such as pinching or stretching for brush size ). However, it would be better for web apps such as Aviary, with presentation separate from data, to just go the agent-sniffer multiple-agent-presentation route, since it makes more sense, and circumvents that Apple walled garden and iPad apps nonsense.

I hate shopping, and so don't know where to find anything. I want there to be trusted store apps that will locate my shopping list items on a store map.

But the potential is there, and it will be fulfilled, one way or another. At the least, it's a great new coral reef.

I wouldn't get one til a coupla revs out, though or check out what Android or Symbian has to offer. Well, I take that back - If it had HDMI and optical/stereo audio, I might have picked up four . Wireless transmitters/receivers are worthless as they're mostly VGA and stereo audio, one component video w/optical/stereo audio, and one true 1080X HD-Toslink audio wireless (but $800, too) - Not any reasonable HD-optical audio wireless transmission offerings.

I think we'll see someone clue in and have a reasonably-priced ($100-150) HDMI-optical wireless transmitter-receiver, though, before Apple sticks HDMI and optical/stereo on the iPad, if ever.

Screw the frontside camera - That's whack. Multi-tasking and battery stuff - Bogus. Several true multi-tasking netbooks go 14.5 hours on a battery.

Ed

They never get their game-changers right, first out of the gate, including the iPod, iPhone, OSX . . .


Why should they? The product flies out the door, is such a hit that we can't wait for the next version, lastest, greatest ~ It's a pretty smart strategy and nobody holds it against them, least of all AppleFanPeeps ~ I certainly include myself in that catagory.

This will be a great web wonk's mobile schlepping device.

Aviary looks good on the iPad and is actually as useable as on a laptop. Most sites won't have to do a re-presentation for the iPad - What they have now will work great as is, and even portrait is good.

Here's an Aviary screenshot of a MacTech screenshot. Too bad it's cluttered with the Aviary palettes (and I didn't want to shrink the image view), but if you could see more of the MacTech screenshot, you'd see that it looks pretty good. This thing's great for web apps.



Yeah, they got a winner,

Ed

WHOA !! Hold up there Kemosabe !!

there are some reports of WiFi Problems ... hope it's limited...

That 700,000 was a guesstiment by talking head analyst .
I suspect since this total via Apple was for Saturday only and not Sunday , the numbers will change somewhat but certainly not double in anyway . But like the iPhone I betcha it will be a consistent growth and will hit at lease a million by the end of the year

The 300,000 also doesn't include iPad 3G sales …just the WiFi-only versions.

Correct , or at lease thats my understanding , I suppose they could include the 3g pre-sales but that would skew the numbers .

I bet a full half buck that iPad will meet or beat iPhone sales in the same periods . More so now that other people will see wifi iPads out in the wild , well 300 are walking the streets now . So with that I suspect people who where sitting on the fence will jump on the 3g . I would not be surprise to see lines .

No iPad for me. I have my Kindle and am now going to wait for the next edition of the iPhone!! By time it comes out I will have satisfied my AT&T obligations on firs iPhone.

That is NOT to say I do not WANT and iPad. I ALWAYS want any new Apple TOY. But, I just do not need it.





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