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iPads Selling Like Hotcakes – Can 1M Americans Be Deluded?

May 11, 2010
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The New York Times: iPads Selling Like Hotcakes – Can 1M Americans Be Deluded?

They could be deluded, but the iPad also gets generally positive reviews, so the fact that it has reached the one million mark faster than the iPhone should tell you something about its potential impact in the market going forward.


“Apple on Monday announced that it had sold one million iPads as of Friday last week, a faster sales pace than the iPhone.

Apple also said users had downloaded more than 12 million applications from the iTunes app store and that 1.5 million books have been downloaded through Apple’s iBookstore. The iBookstore sells books only for the iPad, but Apple said it expected to sell books for the iPhone this year.”

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