This is a massive turn . But in the circumstance of other monolithic figure — namely Apple ’s late product launches — it is n’t stunning .
First , the rude figure . 300,000 iPads were deal , top to 1,000,000 app downloads , and 250,000 ebook downloads from the iBook Store . Steve Jobs puts it another way :
iPad user , on modal , downloaded more than three apps and close to one book within hours of unpacking their unexampled iPad .
closely to one volume !
The first comparing a lot of people will make is to the original iPhone , which betray 270,000 unit in the first 30 minute . 300,000 is moderately telling , then , particularly if you take how many citizenry are plausibly holding out for the 3 thousand adaptation , which set up next month , and how this was a US - only launch . But remember !
• The original iPhone ’s lower limit price was $ 500 , too , and that did n’t count the two - year AT&T blood contract .
• It did n’t do as much — there were no apps , and missing feature . We said to expect for the second gen in our review ; this time , it ’s plausibly dependable to grease one’s palms during the first propagation .
• There was no familiarity : The iPhone was completely fresh . The iPad is conversant to iPhoners , of which there are tens of jillion .
By any normal measurement , the iPad had a strong first day What it did n’t have was a700,000 - strongSUPER AWESOME GENE MUNSTER BONANZA Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , because analysts are always wrong , period :
Seriously , what are these guys even accomplishing with their same - day , absurdly improper sales predictions ? snaffle headlines , yes , but what else ? And what good are the headlines if they all end up serving as eternal monuments to how terribly wrong these people are , at all times ?
Anyway .
In the context of use of Apple , whose latter two generation of the iPhone sell over a million on opening weekend , these sales figures are far from surprising , and perhaps even unsatisfying . The real examination is the next calendar month , when the otherwise uninterested are either cast to their friends ’ iPads or not ; intimately everyone who ’s catch my iPad has want to play with it , but I do n’t imagine that ’s converted to any new sales yet . Do n’t be surprised if launch day # 2 , though , outpaces launch day # 1 .
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