How The iPad Totally Changed The World In Just Three Years
At the time, a lot of people were underwhelmed. We even called it a "big yawn," and said, "Jobs introduced something that is probably going to sell in the range of a few million units this year, much closer to one of the company's Macs than its runaway hits like the iPod and iPhone. Not the company's next huge growth story."
Oops. We got that one very wrong!
In the three years since the iPad launched, it's changed everything. It truly was a revolutionary device. Here's a quick run down.
Apple has sold 121 million iPads, totalling $67.7 billion in sales, and it's expected to have sold 18 million more this quarter worth $8 billion.
That makes it the fastest growing consumer tech product ever, according to Mary Meeker
The iPad killed the netbook, now it's going after notebooks.
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The PC industry is reeling because of the iPad.
IDC
The only PC growth now comes from tablets
iPad revenue is bigger than Windows revenue!
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Amazon is now a computer maker, building Kindle Fires that emulate the iPad.
So is Google.
And, Microsoft, too.
There's a reason all of these companies started making iPad wannabes. The iPad is ubiquitous. It's in airport terminals.
Jay Yarow, Business Insider
Pilots use iPads instead of big books.
Restaurants use iPads.
It's replacing cash registers.
The first iPad looked like this ...
Now it looks like this ...
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And it's just getting started... remember this thing is only three years old! Imagine what people will do with it in the next three years.
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