26/01/2012 |
The iPad is an amazing and versatile device, and this week is providing plenty of evidence of the amazing numbers that back that up. Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, has also offered up some thoughts on why the iPad is such a huge success and how huge its potential is.
Here are a few of those amazing numbers that have caught my eye, along with some of those thoughts from Tim Cook, and a few of my own thoughts:
– As Alicia noted the other day, Apple sold over 40 million iPads in 2011, and over 15...
From Horace Dediu's Asymco post on the second Year of the iPad in a row. The iPad has out-sold the Mac since inception and is now about three times the volume. However, the growth rate in the Mac has not changed much.The new data shows that the iPad alone would be the largest PC vendor and Apple ...
Yesterday's big Apple event was all about the new iPhone 4S, but the first portion of things featured Tim Cook (Apple's new CEO) highlighting some very impressive numbers in all of Apple's core product areas.Some of the numbers for the iPad are just staggering - like these:– Customer satisf...
If we needed any more evidence of the iPad's dominant position in the tablet market, a recent estimate of tablets sales for the next four years by Gartner certainly provides it. As the future looks very bright for the iPad:Media tablet sales are set to grow from 17.6 million last year to 326.3 m...
Image Source: lasnark.comDuring Apple's quarterly results announcements yesterday, we heard a lot of huge numbers - including some spectacular iPad-related figures. Here's some of the iPad numbers and details that grabbed my attention:– The iPad outsold Macs - despite a record quarter for M...
Thanks to the success of Apple's iPad, the Mac-maker accounted for 17.2 percent of all mobile PC shipments worldwide during the fourth quarter of 2010, making it the overall segment leader. DipslaySearch reports Apple shipped over 10.2 million MacBooks and iPads combined during the period, giving...
Image Source: http://pmpaspeakingofprecision.comDigital Daily has published an interesting report about the profitability of Apple retail stores. The report states that in Apple's last quarter - Q3 for Apple - the fruit company's retail arm brought in $2.58 billion, a 72.8% jump from Q2 of 2009. ...