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Apple Ipad 2 sells a million over the weekend
ESTIMATES ARE CLIMBING for the number of Ipad 2 tablets Apple has sold since the shiny drinks tray went on sale on Friday, 11 March.
Initially estimates were that 500,000 Ipad 2 units had been sold, which would set it above the 300,000 original Ipads bought in April 2010 when that was launched. Now analysts have gone tablet crazy and are throwing seven figure numbers around to suggest a late winter blizzard of sales.
"We would not be surprised to see Apple sell closer to 1 million Ipad 2s in the opening weekend," Wedbush Securities analyst Scott Sutherland gibbered to Reuters.
The numbers might impress some while others will simply still be amazed that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was able to attend the Ipad 2 March media launch event.
As well as the numbers sold there seems to be some disagreement between analysts over who is actually splashing out all this cash for the Ipad 2.
Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry reckons that 60 per cent of Ipad 2 buyers already have an Ipad. But stock brokerage firm Piper Jaffray found that 70 per cent of buyers of the Ipad 2 are new customers. It surveyed fanbois queuing to buy the shiny toy. Piper Jaffray also found that only 50 to 60 per cent of those in the qeue had another Apple product. Meanwhile Global Equities Research reckons Ipad 2 buyers are all avid Iphone users.
The INQUIRER wonders if even more Ipads would have been sold if Apple had bothered to put on it what everybody wants, Flash support and a USB port. µ
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if you absolutely insist on running flash (and most of the time then you really don't need it) then iSwifter runs it on a server for you and shows the results in an iPad app. Games and video both work, so there's one less excuse for Rob to complain about.
Wow, pleased to see like-minded people posting....
In the last several months I have removed flash from my browsers...what a difference!!! Certainly have not looked back.
I switched to an iphone a few months ago...I WAS worried about lack of flash, but haven't missed it at all, with the exception of some websites which deliver streaming radio through flash. Fortunately, there are so many hundreds of alternative streaming stations/apps, that I've worked around it nicely
I recognize that for some people, Flash _may_ be a necessity. However, for me it's not. I've been happily using the Flashblock add-in with Firebadger for the past couple of years.
Here's what I've noticed: Firefox is more stable, faster, and there are fewer annoying ads -- when Flash is blocked. For work and non-work activities, I keep Flashblock engaged 90% of the time.
I'm not an Apple fanboy, nor do I own an iPad. However, the iPad2 is finally interesting because of the basic videoconferencing support and the upgraded CPU/GPU/RAM. I've enjoyed using friends' iPads, but have always found them just slightly more responsive than my iPhone 3GS.
cheers,
yeah, because that's what everyone want's to do. have an ugly cheap device you should root.
good luck with that
could we just stop winging about lack of flash? flash is not a web standard but a plugin.
if you don't want ipad stop bitching about it and get whatever makes you happy or meets your checklist of features.
i don't remember when it was last time i missed flash, sorry, but there's no need for it
So just get an adapter that p[roviudes UDB sockets, or just don't buy an iPad christ its not like steve jobs is taking your money, you can buy whatever you damn well want.
As for Flash, everyone keeps goign on about it has no flash, well apart from not being able to play Farmville in Facebook and watching donkey pron on youtube what is it your missing last time I checked flash arent in the HTML standard for a start!
Disable flash on your PC and see how far you get.
Buy a $200.00 Nook Color and root it with the auto install and then realize how much people are overpaying for the iPad.
Before someone starts screaming about the specs between the two devices realize that the Nook is faster than the original iPad and nothing really needs that additional speed. At least not $300.00 more heck buy two Nook Colors for the price of an iPad.
USB ports are something that you expect in a generic device, I mean, those gadgets made for poor people.
It's much more stylish and fashionable to have an proprietary and exclusive port where you can connect a fancy white proprietary and exclusive cable which alone would cost dozens of bucks.
And about Flash, well, Apple doesn't change, it's the Internet that has to change to have the honor of being accessed by Apple devices.
After seeing the benefits of a "Flash Free". All people see are the videos they can't play (90% of my video needs are solved by free apps). Most people don't realize that 90% of Flash usage are for things they don't notice or need. Like that ad on the top right corner of this screen.