Apple Sold 1 Millionth iPad on Friday

[santfu]

seriously though. What IS it for? it's going to be a ball-ache to handle and surf the web while standing up or even just sitting. So you're going to be laying it on stuff to use.
I see that alot of ppl are using it to read books, that's going to get annoying quick too with the lcd screen.

I'm with that Italian, i have no idea.

 

[husker]

[citation][nom]hoofhearted[/nom]Apple "polishes" a product pretty well. I gave my 14 year old non-technical daughter an iPod touch, and "no questions". Everything "works" and there are no "technical prompts". I also gave that same daughter a laptop with Windows 7 on it. Nothing but questions. What does this mean? Should I install this? It is showing this window asking this? Most this stuff is obvious to me, but I can definitely see where Apple is doing something that others choose not to.[/citation]
I gave my 3 year old son a stick-and-hoop to play with and it didn't have any prompts either. He just "got it". It was extremely durable, didn't require him to be able to read, and it never required recharging. When is Apple going to make it's iPod product have the simplicity of a stick-and-hoop product?

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Ya can make fun of it, but ya can't argue w/ success. The reason Apple does so well, and continues to do so well is buyer's remorse .... that is it's is extremely rare for someone buying an Apple device to be unhappy with the purchase. The Apple Tech Support guy is the modern day equivalent of the Maytag Repairman. OK so I am showing my age but for you newbies, the commercial's for Maytag back in the day featured the lonely Maytag Repairman who was bored and lonely cause no one ever called him....reason being the Maytag washing machine never broke so no one needed him.

That's where Apple sits ..... no driver issues, no install problems, no questions ... you turn it on, it works. No need to call tech support cause everything is intuitive. No, they are never the "best" things around performance wise but you pay a price for the bleeding edge . I like fiddling in the BIOS and tweaking a machine to get the most out of it .... I have never owned an Apple device ... I'm an old geek and have been fiddling with PC's for in excess of 25 years. Every geek I know complains about Windows, complains when their PC won't do what they want it to do or why it stopped doing what it used to do. I never hear Apple device owners complaining.

But most people just want a pocketknife to be a pocketknife and not one of these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wenger-Swiss-Army-Giant-Knife/dp/B000R0JDSI/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=sports&qid=1271930370&sr=8-8

Yeah, it does everything but it will do absolutely nothing well.

Apple may not be my cup of tea but for peeps who want a product that does JUST the few things and does them better than anything else out there with no fuss, Apple is simply unmatched in the marketplace.