- Price of iPads starts from US$499 (for a 16GB model)
- Current iPad features: 9.7-inch color display, weighs 1.5 pounds and is a half-inch thick. Can get 10 hours of battery life. Single tasking. WiFi enabled. Surf Internet. Read ebooks. Watch videos. Play games. No camera. No support for Adobe Flash software.
- 3G version is due later in April 2010.
- Piper Jaffray expects Apple to sell 200,000 to 300,000 iPads over the weekend. Updated its expectation to 700,000 iPads (including pre-orders) over the weekend.Updated its projection for 2010 to 5 million units from 2.8 million units.
- iSuppli Corporation expects full year sale may reach 7.1 million iPads
- Sanford C Bernstein and Company expects 300,00 to 400,000 iPads sold over the weekend and 5 million iPads sold in the first 12 months.
- For comparion, 270,000 iPhones sold on its weekend debut in 2007 and 6.1 million iPhones in its first year in the market
- Apple announced 300,000 iPads sold as of the start of Sunday (midnite).
- Apple said that more than one million applications from its app store and more than 250,000 e-books were downloaded by users (as of 4 April).
- iPad components include A4 processor from Apple, NAND flash memory from Samsung Electronics, LCD display from LG Display, microchips from Broadcom, Texas Instruments and NXP Semiconductor.
- Apple typically do not rely on one supplier for the same type of components.
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PersianCat (Millionaire-in-progress)
