ipad 3 Apple sells 3 million new iPads

[Pow]

Personally for me, I've been researching into tablets for the past 4 months , wondering which to get. Finally when the iPad 3 came out it seemed like the best bit, mostly because of the app store which is designed for the iPad and not multiple devices and after looking at countless hands on videos of the iPad 2 it seemed perfect for what I needed.

[.Neo]

I'm not trolling and or anti-apple but I always see people saying how people buying these devices know they are good and don't just buy it for the Apple name. I ask you how do they know they are so good? Are you trying to say all they all had early access to know it's SOOOO good that they had to have it or did they buy it because it's an Apple device? Surely lots of people bought it mostly to upgrade from their old iPad and they know those are great, they've had it for a while and it's been awesome but that doesn't guarantee the new version to be better than the old. Most of these people bought it simply because it's a new Apple device, first time iDevice buyers included.

iPads are everywhere: People see friends walking around with them, fellow classmates, in stores etc. There are tons of opportunities to try one out. I for one wasn't all that convinced about the product until I actually used one for an extended period of time, which was during my holiday last year when a friend brought his original iPad with him. I decided to get one too, but waited for the next generation. Quite a few people I know wanted an iPad 2 but in turn decided to wait until the next version (three) was released. With prices staying largely the same the improvements are just extra gravy. Most people who upgrade do so every other year and the new iPad most definitely is a good step up from the original one.

While there are those who just buy Apple products for the sake of buying an Apple product, you can't account the vast majority of sales to that. There are simply too many iPads being sold right now to hold on to the "fanboy theory". It might account for around 500.000 boxes (about the initial amount of original iPads sold), however, you're never going to convince me the vast majority of those is willing to spend a minimum of ?480 just for the logo.

Apple has had duds, Microsoft and any other tech giant out there selling millions of products yearly. It's possible and it happens all the time but nobody wants to admit that Apple is just riding on a high right now. They don't make devices that are so much better than anything else out there, they just happen to make the things that people want right now, good reasons or not it's just what they want.

People have been saying it's a fab for the past decade; first with the iPod, then with the iPhone and now the iPad. At some point you have to come with a better excuse.

Something I noticed in general is that many see the Android tablets, such as the Galaxy Tab, as clones and personally I can't blame them. So when they have a choice to spend ?500 on the real deal (iPad) or "clone", they'll choose the former. If they can't afford that they'll chose something a lot cheaper, but then they weren't a potential iPad buyer to begin with. I have yet to see another tablet where the overall experience is truly better than the iPad's. At this point Android isn't as polished, performance isn't as good (a Quad-Core is nice on paper, but when the software isn't optimized it ends up meaning nothing) and apps just aren't as nice. Which is fine at a much lower price, but for around the same money I'll choose the iPad and I've heard the same from many others.

[Roger H. Veteran]

You make it sound like people just have all this extra cash to spend. An iPad is not a need, it's just a new fancy product that people want. So people buying up the iPad on the first day are not your average mom & pop middle class family. It's the young "hip" crowds that wants to show off said new iPad to their friends and family. The Android tablets do it all just as good as the iPad if all you care about is the browser or to watch movies. There's no "lag" when watching movies on either tablet so that wont matter. Checking the browser, a static page doesn't show any "lag" either if you are just reading an article on New York Times page (or the App). Playing games - ok well yes the iPad has more apps but if you are spending $500 on a device just because of a few specific apps then you obviously have money to burn.

Here, let's see the regular suburb kid go to mom and say hey mom, give me $501 to buy an iPad so I can play Angry Birds in Retina HD! Maybe bad example as Angry Birds is also available on Android. iBooks maybe? dunno - point is, iPad buying is different than iPhone buyers where people will justify the extra costs for the cool factor but it's also a communication device. Buying a tablet, iPad or Android or anything is more about "gotta have it" or the "cool" factor than anything else.