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Lack of Flash not hurting iPad sales with 2 million sold in under 60 days

By | May 31, 2010, 11:02am PDT

Summary: iPad continues to dominate, but Android and WebOS-based tablets could challenge it soon enough.

If you thought that the iPad really didn’t have a market, check out the latest press release from Apple. According to the company, it has now sold more than two million iPads in less than 60 days. That latest number includes the iPad WiFi and iPad 3G, and presumably the new international sales in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, which only started selling this past weekend.

In addition to the over 2 million served announcement, Apple mentioned that more than 5,000 iPad-specific apps are now available on the App Store.

“Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.

Two million is a lot of iPads and I’m definitely in shock that so many have sold in such a short amount of time. You also have to love the timing of this press release, given that the international launch just happened. It cleverly isn’t stating how many of the two million are due to international purchase, but still, two million is a heck of a lot of iPads. I’m sure we’ll get more fine-tuned numbers at the WWDC.

I have to admit that even though I had my doubts about the iPad, I’m now the owner of an iPad 3G and it definitely fits in with my lifestyle. Granted, there are plenty of times when I could just take my MacBook, but the fact that the iPad 3G is so light and portable makes it a must-have travel companion with me when I’m on the road or even out for a quick meeting. Would I switch to a Windows 7 tablet? Not likely, but I would give a WebOS-based one, or an Android one a second look. I’m sure I’m not in the minority either, so Apple better continue to innovate on the iPad front to keep it well ahead of the pack.

If you’re still hoping to get your hands on an iPad and they’re currently sold out in your area, have no fear. Steve Jobs is promising that there are more on the way:

“We appreciate their patience, and are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone.”

Even with all of the hype surrounding the lack of flash, it seems that sales of the iPad aren’t slowing down any time soon.

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RE: Lack of Flash not hurting iPad sales with 2 million sold in under 60 days
lehnerus2000 4th Jun 2010
@wackoae
I generally don't agree with your posts, but you are 100 percent right on this.
NoScript regularly warns me about potential XSS attempts (by Doubleclick, I think).
There is TOO much Flash and JavaScript garbage on the net. Maybe Apple is right on this.
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RE: Lack of Flash not hurting iPad sales with 2 million sold in under 60 days
rossdav@... 31st May 2010
@NonZealot
Oh brother. Did you read the article?
First, it's not just Apple's stuff that Foxconn makes.
Second, Foxconn is apparently one of the *best* places to work in China (not that that is saying much I suppose).
Third, Foxconn's suicide rate is much lower than the overall China average.
In other words: Stop spreading FUD.
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Another IDIOT with the Foxcomm crap.
wackoae 31st May 2010
Are you ashamed of always displaying how stupid you really are?? Or is your brain just limited to accepting the bare minimum amount of info (like titles only) while ignoring everything else??

It is not like the Foxcomm facts haven't being discussed for weeks now.

Dude, either get some professional help or start getting some education at one of the local schools for the mentally challenged.
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ZDNet needs to remove the CPA??? crap
wackoae 31st May 2010
Sorry, ZDNet but I refuse to expose my computer to viruses and trojans just to read your web pages.

Your new ad from CPAwhatever is desperately trying to convince me to disable all my security and ad-blocking measures that keeps my browsing safe.

If ZDNet continues to use this crap, I will just move on to other more secure websites. I probably won't be the only one. What is better, users with security or no users at all?
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YES!!! it blocks the article even when I turn EVERYTHING OFF
DeRSSS Updated - 31st May 2010
@wackoae: and when I opened this article on Opera there was outrageous audio/video advertisement AUTORAN. And even when it ended, the damn ad script kept the page half dim and would NOT let me to page-down or browse lower any other way to actually READ DAMN ARTICLE.
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ZDNet needs to turn off all but basic html for the talkback posts. A couple
DonnieBoy 31st May 2010
of days ago, there was one that re-directed to another site.
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RE: Lack of Flash not hurting iPad sales with 2 million sold in under 60 days
lehnerus2000 4th Jun 2010
@wackoae
I generally don't agree with your posts, but you are 100 percent right on this.
NoScript regularly warns me about potential XSS attempts (by Doubleclick, I think).
There is TOO much Flash and JavaScript garbage on the net. Maybe Apple is right on this.
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NONSENCE; Apple is just portion of F-n customers: Dell, Sony, Nintendo, etc
DeRSSS 31st May 2010
@NonZealot: the subject. And yes, workers at Foxconn get payed much better than most of millions of Chenese workers which produce polluted antigreen trash which later called Gateway or cheap models of HP and Dell.
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To all the idiots defending Apple
NonZealot Updated - 31st May 2010
@AppleZealots
Wow, I even copy and pasted it so you lazy idiots wouldn't have to click on a link. This is only happening at Foxconn plants that make Apple products and it is happening as a direct result of Apple's instructions on how to treat the workers. While Foxconn workers in general might be better off than the average Chinese, Foxconn workers who work on Apple products are much worse off than Foxconn workers who work on non-Apple products.

Read the article, it will help make you look slightly less idiotic (though just barely). This is 100 percent Apple's fault.
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Goods produced at the **same** plant; Nintendo plans to investigate
DeRSSS 31st May 2010
@NonZealot: Apple specifically has nothing to do with it at all.
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Are you stupid or just pretending?
wackoae 31st May 2010
It is not like this issue wasn't discussed to death before.

Now the same stupid idiot tries to bring it back with the same debunked misinformation as before.

Are you ashamed by now that you always come out looking like an idiot???
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@denis: your stupidity knows no bounds!!
NonZealot 31st May 2010
Goods produced at the **same** plant; Nintendo plans to investigate

So Nintendo has their products built at Apple's secret plant? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read the article. The blame is all Apple's.
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@wackoe: You are the idiot
NonZealot Updated - 31st May 2010
same debunked misinformation as before.

That article I linked to has never been debunked. When I posted a link to it, the response of you Apple zealots was to tell me that you wanted to "pass" on responding to that article and then accused me of stalking.

So, for the sake of argument, please post this "debunking". It should be really easy for you since, according to you, the debunking has already been posted so many times. Just need to copy and paste it, assuming your Internet browsing platform supports copy and paste. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
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Actually...
msalzberg 31st May 2010
Nowhere does that artIcle state that this is only happening at Foxconn plants that make Apple products. Further, it specifically states that Apple has complained about the treatment of the workers at Foxconn plants, quite the opposite of what you claim.

You should read the articles you link to; perhaps then you won't look so foolish.
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@msalzberg: You are just as stupid as the rest of them
NonZealot 31st May 2010
Nowhere does that artIcle state that this is only happening at Foxconn plants that make Apple products

Then it should be REALLY easy for you to find cases where Dell has asked for unparalleled secrecy and where Foxconn workers working on Dell products have been beaten and murdered. Unless you are lying... which you do tend to do a lot.

Further, it specifically states that Apple has complained about the treatment of the workers at Foxconn plants

LOL, I never pictured you as being quite so naive. Oh well, I learned something new about you today. Apple can release whatever press releases they want and while you might lap it up like a good little doggy, their actions are more representative of how they really feel. They asked for all of this:
reports of security staff antagonizing employees in wake of Apple's demand for unparalleled secrecy at the plant
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I see...
msalzberg 31st May 2010
So you complete mischaracterize the substance of an article that you yourself linked to, and your only defense is to call me "stupid" and "naive?"
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Much better title: Lack of Windows not hurting iPad sales.
DonnieBoy 31st May 2010
The masses could care less about Win32 on a tablet.
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Balthor---Linux has changed
BALTHOR 31st May 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCJ8QDfA95U

elive is a linux OS that can be run from a USB pendrive.I ran it right from the CD and it worked.I even got this Linux to download and operate a few Microsoft type programs.You download the ISO file then extract it to a CD with a program like Nero ISO burn.There is no Casper persistence file here.The USB installation might need the elive Unetbootin program to install it.As for the Linux boot up---it's too tedious,too much computer knowledge is needed.The elive default settings at boot up are fine.Just boot to elive.It runs from a CD is really cool to me.It runs from a CD means that you do not have to install it.It's really clicky at the boot up.Just like the way you always thought computers should run.
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RE: Lack of Flash not hurting iPad sales with 2 million sold in under 60 days
Pete "athynz" Athens 31st May 2010
@BALTHOR And what does this have to do with the ipad or flash? Not ONE DAMNED THING! You Linux people need to quit spamming.
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@mystalker: Didn't think so
NonZealot Updated - 31st May 2010
Then it should be REALLY easy for you to find cases where Dell has asked for unparalleled secrecy and where Foxconn workers working on Dell products have been beaten and murdered

Wow, I never would have predicted that you couldn't back up your statements. Oh, wait, yes, I did predict it.

your only defense is to call me "stupid" and "naive?"

No, I called you naive because you admitted to all of us that you swallow Apple's press releases without any question. Tell us all, do you swallow press releases from all multi-national, multi-billion $$$/year mega-corporations or is Apple the only one lucky enough to take advantage of your extreme naivet?

When you come up with something better than You are wrong because Apple says so , then we can talk about my "defenses".

Idiot.
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RE: Lack of Flash not hurting iPad sales with 2 million sold in under 60 days
Pete "athynz" Athens Updated - 31st May 2010
@NonZealot This is the only non-flagged post of your I could comment on...

From the link you posted above: Last week we reported on a shocking expose conducted by the Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly which revealed harsh working conditions at a Foxconn plant that assembles iPods, iPads, and more the key point here is the "and more" part - which does not limit what that particular plant assembles to Apple only products. But don't let facts stop you. This quote is also from the same article: It is important to consider that Apple is certainly not the only company whose products are manufactured by Chinese employees reportedly working in poor conditions. Intel, Nintendo, Sony, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, and Amazon are among Foxconn's other customers.

But - imagine that - you posting a link to an anti-Apple article... go figure. I'd never for once think YOU of all people would post to an obviously biased site.../ sarcasm
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@athynz
NonZealot Updated - 31st May 2010
@athynz
the key point here is the "and more" part - which does not limit what that particular plant assembles to Apple only products.

Are you honestly suggesting that Foxconn makes Dell products at Apple's secret plant? No, you wouldn't be suggesting that, that would be ridiculous. The "and more" obviously refers to other Apple products. I don't know if you know this but Apple sells more than just iPods and iPads.

It is important to consider that Apple is certainly not the only company...

Huh, you picked an interesting place to end your quote. Here, let me paste the very next line from the article:
Nonetheless, the pressure in terms of secrecy at these facilities (and corresponding employee abuse) may not be quite as high.

Cry and complain and whine and ***** and moan as much as you want. The fact is that Foxconn workers who work on Apple products are far more likely to commit suicide, be murdered, or beaten and it is because of, and I quote: Apple's demand for unparalleled secrecy . Look up the word unparalleled.

I'd never for once think YOU of all people would post to an obviously biased site

LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!! So because a site posts an article that isn't 110 percent full of glowing positive praise for Apple, that site is suddenly biased? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
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Your inability to defend your original post is duly noted.
msalzberg 31st May 2010
If the only way you can defend your statements is to change the subject and post insults, it suggests that your statements are indefensible.
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RE: Lack of Flash not hurting iPad sales with 2 million sold in under 60 days
Pete "athynz" Athens 31st May 2010
@NonZealot Right it's all Apple's fault never mind that HP, Dell, Toshiba, and other companies also use Foxconn - but as usual you don't let the facts stop you from spreading FUD and lies - in NZ speak: Cue the Double Standards
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The blame lies with Apple and only with Apple
NonZealot 31st May 2010
@athynz
never mind that HP, Dell, Toshiba, and other companies also use Foxconn

Not at Apple's secret plant and it is at Apple's secret plant where the suicides, murders, and beatings happen, all at Steve Jobs' request for, and I quote, Apple's demand for unparalleled secrecy.
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Actually, no.
msalzberg 31st May 2010
What you did was to link to an article, misrepresent what it said, and then, rather than address your faulty statements, toss out insults to anyone who points out your misstatements.
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Most people I know...
Jared Neale 31st May 2010
couldn't even tell you what flash is or what it does. I guess the lack of it might not be too bad for these people either.
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2 Million Apple Zombies
gtatransam@... 1st Jun 2010
Looks like the Zombie Apocalypse is here.
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Id be willing to bet that many of the people who purchased
James Quinn 1st Jun 2010
@gtatransam@...
nn iPad don't own a Macintosh. I'd also be willing to bet that some don't even own another computer what so ever PC or Mac. Why? Well because they find the iPad does what they need/want and don't care for anything else.

Pagan jim
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RE: Lack of Flash not hurting iPad sales with 2 million sold in under 60 days
dealy@... 1st Jun 2010
Do yall have nothing else better to do with your lives !!!
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Sales are no problem, usage is
kdjkdj@... 1st Jun 2010
How many of the buyers do not know what Flash is or even care? How many will not realize why what they want to see is not available on the iPad? How many will have to go back to laptops or even desktops to see what they please? Way too many. Usability is the real problem.
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You are correct.... But not in the way you think:P
James Quinn 1st Jun 2010
@kdjkdj@...
Usability has been a problem for the tablet market all along it was the iPad and Apple who solved it however.

Pagan jim
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RE: Lack of Flash not hurting iPad sales with 2 million sold in under 60 days
Pete "athynz" Athens 1st Jun 2010
@NonZealot

Someone had my post deleted - you perhaps? So here it is again:

@athynz
the key point here is the "and more" part - which does not limit what that particular plant assembles to Apple only products.

Are you honestly suggesting that Foxconn makes Dell products at Apple's secret plant? No, you wouldn't be suggesting that, that would be ridiculous. The "and more" obviously refers to other Apple products. I don't know if you know this but Apple sells more than just iPods and iPads.

But in the article you linked to does not claim that these events are restricted to a plant that solely assembles Apple products nor does it allude to a "secret plant" - THAT is a delusion of your devising.

It is important to consider that Apple is certainly not the only company...

Huh, you picked an interesting place to end your quote. Here, let me paste the very next line from the article:
Nonetheless, the pressure in terms of secrecy at these facilities (and corresponding employee abuse) may not be quite as high.

Also in that article is a statement that the suicide rate at that plant and Foxconn is much lower than the average for China - Sounds like Foxconn is the place to work even with the "pressure" from Apple...

Cry and complain and whine and ***** and moan as much as you want. The fact is that Foxconn workers who work on Apple products are far more likely to commit suicide, be murdered, or beaten and it is because of, and I quote: Apple's demand for unparalleled secrecy. Look up the word unparalleled.

Again let me point to the same article you posted a link to - the same article that lists suicide statistics for Foxconn and for China as a whole and if you had bothered to read that part you'd have seen that the suicide rate is lower for Foxconn than it is for China - which also debunks your theory.

I'd never for once think YOU of all people would post to an obviously biased site

LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!! So because a site posts an article that isn't 110 percent full of glowing positive praise for Apple, that site is suddenly biased? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Not at all - I'd ridicule a rabid Apple fanboi for trying to prove his point by linking to a MacWorld article...

Now let's see how long THIS post stays up... it's funny how it was removed when it completely debunked every single post you've made on the topic of Foxconn and Apple being responsible for the suicides.
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RE: Lack of Flash not hurting iPad sales with 2 million sold in under 60 days
Pete "athynz" Athens 1st Jun 2010
@NonZealot I'm going to completely debunk your posts here with a quote from the very article you linked to:

Many observers have noted that China has a high suicide rate. This is certainly true. China's suicide rates have been slowly falling for the last several years, but they're still among the world's highest. In 2007 the rate was at 286,000 suicides a year. That's about 21.4 people per 100,000 people. According to the latest World Health Organization figures, this rate has dropped to around 13.9 suicides per 100,000 people.

Given that figure, it would be easy to assume that Foxconn's Apple plant would typically have a suicide rate of about 46 people a year, given that it officially employs over 330,000 people (some reports have put the true figure at closer to 400,000 people).

However Foxconn's own statistics raise more questions regarding the situation. Foxconn reported only 3 suicide deaths at the plant in 2009 (in line with the premise that a well employed work force has a lower suicide rate). There have been no widespread reports of suicides at Foxconn motherboard plants this year.

As for the reference to a "secret Apple plant"... that is YOUR delusion picked up from the biased article. Also if there really WAS a secret Apple plant why aren't you or Jason Mick (who wrote the article) taking the proof to the DoJ and whoever else is suing Apple?
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RE: Lack of Flash not hurting iPad sales with 2 million sold in under 60 days
zaraly 1st Jun 2010
@NonZealot
No flash It's not as big a problem as I thought it would be, but it's still an annoyance.
2 million sold I think this is normal.love ipad!
iPad is arguably the first great gadget for consuming digital media.Like a smartphone, an iPad is more portable and easy to use than a laptop. It's a device you'll keep on your coffee table or at your breakfast table or even take with you into the bathroom, whether to read an e-book, casually surf the Web, check your e-mail or watch a video.

Here have ipad free apps:
http://www.aneesoft.com/tutorials/ipad/best-20-free-ipad-apps.html
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why all the noise?
jrn_56@... 1st Jun 2010
Funny, I have always seen this place as being anti-MS, pro Apple, pro Linux. Or maybe the reverse,m who knows? But more importantly Who CARES? I give a rat's azz what system you use! You could be a WebTV'r for all I care!! Seems like more people care about preening than computing...
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why all the noise?
jrn_56@... 1st Jun 2010
Funny, I have always seen this place as being anti-MS, pro Apple, pro Linux. Or maybe the reverse,m who knows? But more importantly Who CARES? I give a rat's azz what system you use! You could be a WebTV'r for all I care! Seems like more people care about preening than computing...
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RE: Lack of Flash not hurting iPad sales with 2 million sold in under 60 days
ubiquitous one 1st Jun 2010
Just mark this NonZealot sick-o as spam and move on. He has nothing relevant to say

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