Re: a longstanding question has finally been answered
michael said:
Total market. . .iPad versus Kindle, Sony and nook, leave the rest. When will there be more iPads??? A little spine here. . .come on!
ipad had 300,000 the first weekend. it took kindle/sony/nook a _year_ to move that many. ipad has 500,000 now, less than one month out... it took kindle/sony/nook _18_months_ to sell that many. are you disputing who the eventual winner will be? or are we just arguing about how long it will take the ipad to go ahead? how long has the kindle been out now? just to make it easy on myself, i'll say that when the ipad has been out _that_long_, on that date its sales will have surpassed sales made by the kindle/sony/nook trio on that date. (and likely by a large margin.) and if you want certainty, bracket a period a-year-before that date and a-year-after... -bowerbird
You are really willing to bet that on April 21, 2013 there will be more iPads than Kindles plus Sonys plus nooks. . . . Say it in print for the folks, and I'll start practicing turducken recipes. . . . On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
michael said:
Total market. . .iPad versus Kindle, Sony and nook, leave the rest. When will there be more iPads??? A little spine here. . .come on!
ipad had 300,000 the first weekend.
it took kindle/sony/nook a _year_ to move that many.
ipad has 500,000 now, less than one month out...
it took kindle/sony/nook _18_months_ to sell that many.
are you disputing who the eventual winner will be?
or are we just arguing about how long it will take the ipad to go ahead?
how long has the kindle been out now? just to make it easy on myself, i'll say that when the ipad has been out _that_long_, on that date its sales will have surpassed sales made by the kindle/sony/nook trio on that date. (and likely by a large margin.)
and if you want certainty, bracket a period a-year-before that date and a-year-after...
-bowerbird
On 4/21/2010 5:27 PM, Michael S. Hart wrote:
You are really willing to bet that on April 21, 2013 there will be more iPads than Kindles plus Sonys plus nooks. . . .
Say it in print for the folks, and I'll start practicing turducken recipes. . . .
I'll say it in print, and I don't even /like/ the iPad. General purpose computing devices will /always/ beat out single purpose devices. If there are more Kindles sold next year than iPads it will be because Amazon has turned the Kindle into a general purpose computing device as well.
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