Apple sells 3 million new iPads in 3 days

The worst part of this news is Wario didn't bump his "Whose Cancelling Their Preorder" threads for the 3DS & Vita although I guess its a little too late to be cancelling preorders

The little handhelds that could deserve at least that much
 
Outstanding numbers.

But I'm beginning to think Wario is the best undercover agent on GAF. And the day we'll have nothing but tablets I'll leave this planet.
 
Tablets aren't a fad but ipad is. Once the market matures and price competition kicks in with Android and Windows tablets matching ipad feature-for-feature and low cost budget tablets flooding the market, ipad will be in the same place Mac is in the PC space market share wise.

It's actually far more likely that the iPad becomes the Windows of tablets from the outlook right now.
 
Tablets aren't a fad but ipad is. Once the market matures and price competition kicks in with Android and Windows tablets matching ipad feature-for-feature and low cost budget tablets flooding the market, ipad will be in the same place Mac is in the PC space market share wise.

I'm the biggest Apple hater around but this is bollocks. How's the iPhone doing right now? Yeah. Exactly.

Apple doesn't care about the PC space market share. Hell it wouldn't shock me to see them just kill it off completely at some point down the road. The iPad is the computer replacement device. Sales will stop increasing at some point because yes the competitors will put out viable products at lower price points and at some point people will stop feeling the need to upgrade every year, but the notion its some kind of fad is absurd.

People do need to stop saying its the fastest growing gaming machine out though. The 4S crushed it sales wise.

If you're going to say the iPad is a games machine then so is the iPhone. There isn't a difference between the two.
 
No, I specifically did not mention iphone. So don't interject that just cuz it doesn't match your zeal for Apple.

Well lets see here, the iPhone came out and then Android devices and W7 devices. Yep, those devices surely caused the iPhone to become less popular and less of a best seller. Yep. Sure did. Surely the iPad will be different though =P
 
I have an iPad and an iPhone (both second hand as people were going for upgrades, which is the best part of the yearly updates) and I am not going to buy a 3DS or a Vita due to those two devices.
 
I haven't finished many 0'79 games on my iPad, 49'99 Uncharted on Vita took me four days to beat it.

i hope you rented uncharted.

lol me too man. I can't wait in a few years from now when many of these folks are standing out in the cold weather with their friends waiting to preorder the newest iPad from Best Buy and the great exclusives from EA, Square, and Bethesda for it.

i hope these hypothetical games will be coming out for the ipod & iphone too or i will be pissed.
 
Tablets aren't a fad but ipad is. Once the market matures and price competition kicks in with Android and Windows tablets matching ipad feature-for-feature and low cost budget tablets flooding the market, ipad will be in the same place Mac is in the PC space market share wise.

Oh lord, people.

lol me too man. I can't wait in a few years from now when many of these folks are standing out in the cold weather with their friends waiting to preorder the newest iPad from Best Buy and the great exclusives from EA, Square, and Bethesda for it.

Did you pleasure yourself while typing this?
 
Bait thread, hope the mods move it or lock it.

We don't have laptop or desktop pc sales threads.

Ipad is a general purpose tablet computer, those sales have fuck all to do with gaming.

http://ie.xbox360.ign.com/articles/114/1144275p1.html

"Xbox isn't a gaming console," Ballmer told USA Today, "Xbox is a family entertainment center."

Kutaragi said back in 2005. "Other companies may talk of game machines, but we've always referred to 'computer entertainment,' even in our press materials. It's entertainment and also a computer. That's what's important."

So I guess the gaming side should be nintendo only.
 
Bait thread, hope the mods move it or lock it.

We don't have laptop or desktop pc sales threads.

Ipad is a general purpose tablet computer, those sales have fuck all to do with gaming.

Latop and desktop don't have retina display, and Wii U has a tablet controller...I hope the mods will encourage more Ipad 3 sales threads.
 
Months after buying, I haven't finished many 0'79 games on my iPad, 49'99 Uncharted on Vita took me four days to beat it.
Yeah, I deleted many games too, too crappy to bother finishing them. Screw your selective quoting, sir.
 
I can understand phones which people get with contracts but how/why do people replace tablets every year? I have a 2 and see no reason to buy a 3, web browsing works just fine without obvious jaggies or anything just because it's not in some insane res, the ppi of the screen is just fine as it is, and the resizing in safari works like a charm to make most sites readable. Books and the like are fine also. The well produced games are fine too, though I doubt the more intensive 3D stuff can even run at the new iPad's native res anyway. So, what gives? Or does that contract thing apply to tablets also with 3G and stuff? Either way, insane.

At my local BB, the sales rep said only a small percentage of sales were upgrades.

And contracts don't apply for the iPad.
 
There are either some incredibly out of touch people or a section of people having their purchases bankrolled by their parents here, shit is like a playground and this would be the section with fat kids in sweatpants. Still not as good as the last thread which had people questioning the existence of smart phones and other such devices, though.

Either way it's a great piece of tech even though I only use mine for gaming a small portion of the time, although that small portion of the time is a lot more mobile than any other existing handhelds which are (un?)glorified tiny consoles to me. Plenty of great games on the dedicated handhelds but it's not a shock that they're not lighting the world on fire here in the West outside of family and child friendly Nintendo franchises
 
I love the iPad but I still haven't found many unique games that I love on it. Whenever I see recommendations they're usually PC ports. The others are extremely simple games like Draw Something, which are on the same level as any other OMGPOP game (that is to say, fun but not something that warrants any sort of critical thought).
 
Well lets see here, the iPhone came out and then Android devices and W7 devices. Yep, those devices surely caused the iPhone to become less popular and less of a best seller. Yep. Sure did. Surely the iPad will be different though =P

This is not a good counter-argument. In fact, Android did stake out a very large chunk of marketshare (not profits) and became a thriving player in the market, its own issues aside. The greater importance of the app ecosystem in the tablet space relative to the smartphone space and enormous category lead Apple has built up are what makes it less likely for a competitor to replicate this sort of success (which, while notable, still isn't remotely comparable to the market-annihilating dominance MS wielded during the reign of Windows).
 
Well lets see here, the iPhone came out and then Android devices and W7 devices. Yep, those devices surely caused the iPhone to become less popular and less of a best seller. Yep. Sure did. Surely the iPad will be different though =P

Different market/different dynamics.

How are Apple and IBM doing in the PC space, btw?
 
Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo could only hope in their wildest dreams to sell 3 million pieces of hardware in 3 days. Wow, Apple truly is killing them.

No there not. More people are gaming on consoles now more than ever. Apple is growing the market. Your trying so hard to drive this narrative that Apple is "killing" the big 3 for some reason.
 
Tablets aren't a fad but ipad is. Once the market matures and price competition kicks in with Android and Windows tablets matching ipad feature-for-feature and low cost budget tablets flooding the market, ipad will be in the same place Mac is in the PC space market share wise.

I don't know if you noticed - Samsung and others are pricing their tablets on-par with iPad. Competition kicks in? You mean there is some magical reason why Samsung is not playing hard? They must like Apple!
 
How many TI-83s sell in a year?

TI calculators are probably the best selling handheld gaming device of all time.

No man, it's definitely laptops. They all have Pinball on them, and they're only a few inches bigger than an iPad. Truly the highest selling handheld gaming device.
 
Apple recognizes that the future is tablets and iOS devices. Therefore they have and will continue to focus on that market and will continue to dominate it.
Who would have thought that Apple dominates in the iOS device market.
It used to be so competitive with Cisco. :-(

If it sells more than 8 million units in less than 60 days, Kinect will be dethroned.
 
No there not. More people are gaming on consoles now more than ever. Apple is growing the market. Your trying so hard to drive this narrative that Apple is "killing" the big 3 for some reason.

As many have said in this thread, they will not be buying a 3DS/Vita/Wii U because they purchased the iPhone/iPad. Those are dollars lost my friend.
 
No man, it's definitely laptops. They all have Pinball on them, and they're only a few inches bigger than an iPad. Truly the highest selling handheld gaming device.

i wish they all had pinball on them. :( i don't think pinball is on any os after xp.

As many have said in this thread, they will not be buying a 3DS/Vita/Wii U because they purchased the iPhone/iPad. Those are dollars lost my friend.

gahhh, don't do that.
 
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