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iPad Catching On Faster Than the DVD Player

Adoption rate the fastest ever

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 5, 2010 9:23 AM CDT

(Newser) – Apple sold 3 million iPads in the first 80 days of its shelf life, and is currently selling about 4.5 million a quarter, making it by far the fastest-adopted piece of technology in history, CNBC reports. Its nearest competitor is the iPhone, and that sold a mere million units in its first quarter. The fastest non-phone device, the DVD player, sold just 350,000 units in its first year on the market.

It took DVD players, which at first seemed a bulky, pricey alternative to VHS machines, five years to hit the sales pace the iPad reached in its first quarter. “By any account, the iPad is a runaway success of unprecedented proportion,” says one retail analyst. At its current rate, the iPad will blow past videogame hardware and cell phones to become the fourth-largest consumer electronics category in the US next year—just below TVs, smart phones, and notebook PCs. For all things iPad, click here.

Target saleswoman set up a Apple iPad display at a Target store in Cupertino, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. (AP)

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videoconverterforipad

Nov 14, 2010 11:37 PM CST

a new iPad could certainly shake things up over the Christmas shopping season.

ghostaliaz

Oct 7, 2010 1:35 AM CDT

Well if there crap hater's, then it's crap that works. I bought one & one for my Mom & we both enjoy it & I am not an Apple Fan Boy. I use Linux Ubuntu, Puppy Linux, Windows XP,Windows 7, OSX, Mepis Linux, Dream Linux & EasyPeasy Linux & an old BeOS Box & they all have there Pro's & Con's, but that is my choice,plus I work for my money to buy what ever I choose & if I choose to buy an IPad what business is it to complaining hating haters with some kind of nutty grudge against a company with good products that just work unlike Dell,Unlike HP, Unlike Sony etc& the list goes on & on). Don't hate because your jealous because it actually works & does not stutter like most of the other tablets that I see coming out & yes I want to purchase an Android Tablet & a Linux based tablet because I am simply a computer geek that loves all kinds of technology no matter what name is on it, but whether you love them or hate them Apple simply makes very good products & I can admit that because I am not a hater & I give prop's where there due & Apple deserves prop's for making very good sound products that don't get me wrong are not perfect, heck what is? but they make products that I can depend on & for my desktop's I build my own because to me I am a better computer builder in the windows / Linux area for my self, friends & Family. People learn to relax a little!

Ultraworld

Oct 6, 2010 4:47 PM CDT

Apple could polish a turd and the Apple Sheep would line up to buy one

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