iPad hype exceeded only by results
Imperative: dress well for iPad line. Dale Larson in line for launch at the San Francisco Apple Store. (photo by Andrew Mager)
As I suggested in a previous post (where I completely failed to guess the name of the iPad correctly), the results of iPad sales seem to be the only thing exceeding the hype around iPad.
According to Quantcast, iPad constituted 5% of all mobile web traffic consumption on launch day.
In fact, they’re selling so fast that Apple has been forced to delay the international launch of iPad (just six days after insisting the launch would not be delayed by US success).
It’s interesting to note how important new iPad apps are in driving iPad sales. Folks continue to underestimate apps.
My fianceé, Laura La Gassa, adds:
I had my iPad at the National DanceSport (competitive ballroom dancing) Championships all last weekend. I was an “Observer,” which means I watched the competition to make sure it was being run according to the rules, and checked that costumes followed the rules, and so on. As such, I walked around all weekend with the rulebook open in a PDF on my iPad. It never seemed slippery to me, although once it slid off my lap onto the (carpeted) floor.
The fun part was that when I went up to an athlete to inform them of an rule infraction, invariably the response was “WOW, is that an iPad, can I touch it???” rather than them getting all huffy about me telling them to fix whatever it was they needed to fix.
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Grenadine on
Fri, 16th Apr 2010 6:55 pm
The delay in selling ipads internationally due to unforeseen domestic demand is a fiction:
“The US Federal Communications Commission allows devices with Wi-Fi capability to broadcast at higher power levels than are allowed in Europe and Israel…”
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About Dale
Dale Larson, CPCC, ACC, Executive Coach to Entrepreneurs, Startup Happiness
Prior to becoming a coach, I'd been a CEO, a software engineer, a marketer, a rocket scientist, book publisher, editor and author, a personal trainer. Yeah, I was also the guy at the front of the iPhone line; all four times. iPad, too.
I mostly write about startups, marketing, business, and technology (especially mobile, social and web), and sometimes about other interests such as travel and health. Dale is certified by CTI and is a credentialed member of the International Coaching Federation.