iPad Adoption Rate Fastest Ever, Passing DVD Player

[Pliablemoose]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/39501308

iPad sold three million units in the first 80 days after its April release and its current sales rate is about 4.5 million units per quarter, according to Bernstein Research. This sales rate is blowing past the one million units the iPhone sold in its first quarter and the 350,000 units sold in the first year by the DVD player, the most quickly adopted non-phone electronic product.“The iPad did not seem destined to be a runaway product success straight out of the box,” said Colin McGranahan, retail analyst at Bernstein Research, in a note. “By any account, the iPad is a runaway success of unprecedented proportion.”

I remember quite a few threads where the iPad was predicted to be a massive failure

<---hmmm, eyes the search function of the forums...

 

[Bateluer]

You'd think we weren't in a recession or something.

Apparently, there's still millions of people with large amounts of cash to burn.

 

[Anubis]

its still a massive failure IMO

 

[zerogear]

I saw someone on the metro who used an iPad.. then wiped out his iPhone to check something else...... was wtf for me.

 

[akugami]

its still a massive failure IMO

Care to explain how a product that is selling millions of units and making raking in huge amounts of cash is a failure? And keep in mind I told my brother he was wasting his money when he bought an iPad.

 

[gorcorps]

I still don't get it... but w/e, I'm not the one they were shooting for anyway.

 

[jjmIII]

Care to explain..

It's useless to me, but great so many find value in it.

 

[Pliablemoose]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2045374&highlight=ipad+failure

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2062514

Fun to look at the various opinions and predictions

 

[tatteredpotato]

I still don't get it either, but there must be a use for them.

Of course this could be Netbooks 2.0. Lets see how the tablet market is doing in 2 years.

 

[Pliablemoose]

I still don't get it either, but there must be a use for them.

Of course this could be Netbooks 2.0. Lets see how the tablet market is doing in 2 years.

It's going to be massive, we should have several tablets out by then, with different OS's...

<----iPad owner who would love to see a decent Android based tablet at a price point that doesn't make me want to cry...

 

[Anubis]

Care to explain how a product that is selling millions of units and making raking in huge amounts of cash is a failure? And keep in mind I told my brother he was wasting his money when he bought an iPad.

because it does nothing i want a tablet to do + locked environment

someone else also said this

 

[akugami]

It's useless to me, but great so many find value in it.

Everyone is entitled to their opinions. And I'd have to agree with you. I have no use for an iPad personally...but my wife is pushing me to get one for our daughter for some of the educational apps and viewing videos. I've already said that I told my brother he was wasting his money on one. So I don't particularly want to buy one.

However, with all that said, I just don't see how someone can call it a failure much less a massive failure. It's a well received consumer product judging from its sales. It's filling a niche as a media consumption device. It's making Apple a ton of cash. That spells success all around to me.

because it does nothing i want a tablet to do + locked environment

someone else also said this

But that's your opinion. In the opinions of others, it may do everything they want. Again, I don't see how the product can be considered a failure. It does fill a niche even. Even though it may not do what you want doesn't mean it's a failure.

 

[pm]

I saw someone on the metro who used an iPad.. then wiped out his iPhone to check something else...... was wtf for me.

The iPad doesn't have a calendar... It's one of the things that I always have to check on my iPhone is my daily calendar.

I wish Apple had put an alarm clock and a calendar app on the iPad...

I still don't get it either, but there must be a use for them.

Of course this could be Netbooks 2.0. Lets see how the tablet market is doing in 2 years.

I have a 6GB equipped Core i7 desktop computer, an HP Mobile Workstation laptop (Compaq 8510W), a HTPC, a netbook, and an iPhone, and I still spend a lot of time messing on my iPad. I read books, surf, and play the occassional game. I use it as a portable internet radio - the speaker on it is way better than an iPhone and that's the only other portable internet radio that I have. If the kids and I are looking something up, or they have a question about a place, then I run Google Earth and Safari with them. When friends come over and want to look at vacation photos, we all use the iPad. When we are driving on a long car trip, I had the iPad (and my iPhone) back to the kids and they are happy drawing and playing the "memory game".

I honestly didn't expect to use it as much as I do. I bought it because we were going to be travelling in Europe for two months this last summer and we wanted to only bring one laptop and I could picture my wife monopolizing the laptop, but I've kept it because I use it a lot.

I agree with everyone who wants an Android tablet. I want one too - preferrably one with a really nice 9"+ OLED or IPS LCD screen, that feels fast and that has better than 10 hours battery life. And I want to pay $500 or less for it.

But for anyone who says "iPad's are a failure because they serve no purpose", that may or may not be true of the poster, but our family uses ours a fair bit.

I bought a netbook when they first came out. I got my 11 year old daughter an MSI Wind to use as her school computer and to theoretically serve the same purpose as the iPad (entertain the kids on trips, use for looking stuff up, as a mini portable laptop) and really it was mostly a waste of money. We barely use it. My daughter does some schoolwork on it, but not much, and we don't take it on trips... it feels slow and the battery life is pretty awful.

 

[Pliablemoose]

The iPad doesn't have a calendar... It's one of the things that I always have to check on my iPhone is my daily calendar.

I wish Apple had put an alarm clock and a calendar app on the iPad...



I have a 6GB equipped Core i7 desktop computer, an HP Mobile Workstation laptop (Compaq 8510W), a HTPC, a netbook, and an iPhone, and I still spend a lot of time messing on my iPad. I read books, surf, and play the occassional game. I use it as a portable internet radio - the speaker on it is way better than an iPhone and that's the only other portable internet radio that I have. If the kids and I are looking something up, or they have a question about a place, then I run Google Earth and Safari with them. When friends come over and want to look at vacation photos, we all use the iPad. When we are driving on a long car trip, I had the iPad (and my iPhone) back to the kids and they are happy drawing and playing the "memory game".

I honestly didn't expect to use it as much as I do. I bought it because we were going to be travelling in Europe for two months this last summer and we wanted to only bring one laptop and I could picture my wife monopolizing the laptop, but I've kept it because I use it a lot.

I agree with everyone who wants an Android tablet. I want one too - preferrably one with a really nice 9"+ OLED or IPS LCD screen, that feels fast and that has better than 10 hours battery life. And I want to pay $500 or less for it.

But for anyone who says "iPad's are a failure because they serve no purpose", that may or may not be true of the poster, but our family uses ours a fair bit.

I bought a netbook when they first came out. I got my 11 year old daughter an MSI Wind to use as her school computer and to theoretically serve the same purpose as the iPad (entertain the kids on trips, use for looking stuff up, as a mini portable laptop) and really it was mostly a waste of money. We barely use it. My daughter does some schoolwork on it, but not much, and we don't take it on trips... it feels slow and the battery life is pretty awful.

I agree about the netbook, I don't ever use mine any more.

As far as the calendar, did you accidentally delete yours? It works pretty well...

 

[akugami]

Stock iPhone apps can't be deleted and I'd wager that it is the same on the iPad.

 

[dguy6789]

It was fun for a little while but I found myself deliberately trying to use it instead of my PC so I felt like I got my money's worth out of it, not because I wanted to use it instead of existing devices. In the end it began collecting dust big time after the initial novelty wore off, much like a Wii.

 

[Pliablemoose]

LULZ, lets see who Apple has pissed off

1.) People who code in Flash
2.) Windows fan boys
3.) Windows experts who are going to lose their expert status when a famiy member asks them about an iPad
4.) Netbook fan boys
5.) Vapor ware fanboys

Its either gonna be a massive failure or its the beginning of a massive change in the industry.

Im betting on the massive change option... I remember the introduction of the GUI, the mouse, iPhone, etc.... Everyone screamed and moaned, and the world just changed in spite of them.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2057946

 

[tatteredpotato]

It's going to be massive, we should have several tablets out by then, with different OS's...

<----iPad owner who would love to see a decent Android based tablet at a price point that doesn't make me want to cry...

It (and the web) will have to evolve a fair bit before a device like that will achieve the "massive" status IMO.

 

[akugami]

I'll be honest, I do not miss Flash on my iPhone but I think the iPad needs it. It's a media consumption device and there's a ton of Flash based content on the web.

 

[Fingolfin269]

I agree that it is a success but I am still trying to understand why.

 

[Pliablemoose]

I agree that it is a success but I am still trying to understand why.

Because the average consumer doesn't need to do much more than email & surf the web on a device.

They don't need a "gaming laptop", they don't need a laptop that's capable of crunching corporate spreadsheets.

Netbooks are cramped and slow.

Laptops break and it confuses them (the iPad is solid state, no moving parts to break-aside from buttons).

Think of the tablet as the transistor radio compared to the console or table top radios of the past...

We didn't get a flying car, but we're damn well gonna have a Star Trek tablet...

 

[QueBert]

its still a massive failure IMO

HD DVD was a massive failure, the CD addon for the Sega Genesis was a massive failure, Nintendos Virtual Boy was a massive failure. I'm pretty sure the iPad is the biggest success story of the year. I could be wrong and you could be right though, maybe it was a massie failure and Apple has no plans to release a 2nd gen model due to how massive of a failure it was.

 

[Stang289]

HD DVD was a massive failure, the CD addon for the Sega Genesis was a massive failure, Nintendos Virtual Boy was a massive failure. I'm pretty sure the iPad is the biggest success story of the year. I could be wrong and you could be right though, maybe it was a massie failure and Apple has no plans to release a 2nd gen model due to how massive of a failure it was.

I bought the CD add-on for the Sega Genesis. I am still kicking myself for that one.

 

[gorcorps]

It was fun for a little while but I found myself deliberately trying to use it instead of my PC so I felt like I got my money's worth out of it, not because I wanted to use it instead of existing devices. In the end it began collecting dust big time after the initial novelty wore off, much like a Wii.

Yeah I really don't see the point if it's staying at home. Would be fantastic if you take a bus or train to work, or fly enough... Which I don't do so wouldn't find good use out of it.

 

[MJinZ]

I will get an iPad when: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2106753&highlight=

Wait I already have a Laptop for that.